Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions of abstracts for the 2025-26 series of the London
PUS seminar.
Established in 1992, the London PUS Seminar is an academic seminar, which runs
on the last Wednesday of the month during term time. Talks take place in
person, on the LSE Campus in London. Followed by discussion, they are from
4.30 to 6pm, after which the seminar congregates in one of the pubs on the
campus, for further discussion with drinks.
Submissions are welcome for talks on any aspect of research related to the
public understanding of science and science communication broadly construed,
from any field of scholarly enquiry be it social sciences [anthropology,
sociology, psychology, communication etc.] or humanities [history, literature,
philosophy etc.]. Topics that we have recently covered include Eugenics, as a
case of a successful science communication effort in the past, which in the
present does no longer look so successful, and public trust in science. Our
current term is focusing on disinformation and fake news. Proposals on mass
and digital media (content and practice), museums and their staff and
visitors, film and television, public information, political and policy
discourse, science education, science images, science in fiction, advertising,
beliefs, attitudes and representations, citizen science, public engagement,
are welcome (the list is not limitative).
During academic year 2025-26, the seminar will take place on the following 6
dates:
29 October 2025
26 November 2025
10 December 2025
28 January 2026
25 February 2026
25 March 2026
If you would like to present at one of the seminars, please send your abstract
as well as two possible dates from the list above by 30 March 2025 to
b.falade@lse.ac.uk. The London PUS seminar is able
to offer limited support for travel. However, we encourage overseas speakers
to try and coordinate their talk with an already planned research trip to
London or the UK and receiving home institution support.
Best regards
Jean-Baptiste Gouyon [UCL], on behalf of
Martin W. Bauer [LSE], Jane Gregory, Melanie Smallman [UCL], Bankole Falade
[LSE]
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Jean-Baptiste Gouyon
Professor of Science communication | Head of Department
Department of Science and Technology Studies,
University College London,
Gower Street,
London WC1E 6BT
Scheduling and meeting availability - please contact Victoria Mounsey
v.mounsey@ucl.ac.uk
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