COMIC. Comissió d'Instruments Científics

El Dr. Meter Heerring estudió física y química y en 1995 se doctoró en Historia de la Física y su Didáctica. Desde 2009 profesor de la Universidad de Flensburg en su Instituto de Física Química y Didáctica. Anteriormente fue profesor de departamento de Física de la Universidad de Oldenburg (1996-2009) y profesor de enseñanza secundaria (1994-1996).

II SEMINÁRIO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM MUSEOLOGIA DOS PAÍSES DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA E
ESPANHOLA

II SEMINARIO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MUSEOLOGÍA DE LOS PAÍSES DE HABLA
PORTUGUESA Y ESPAÑOLA

El pensamiento museológico contemporáneo en los países de lengua portuguesa
y española O pensamento museológico contemporâneo nos países de língua
portuguesa e espanhola Buenos Aires, 27 al 30 de septiembre de 2010 / 27 a
30 de Setembro de 2010

Lugar de realización / Local de realização: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Período de realización / Período de realização: 27 a 30 de Setembro de 2010

On *Sunday April 25*, HAPSAT, the Graduate Student Society at the
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at Technology at the
University of Toronto, will host its sixth annual conference,
*Instruments: Mental and Material.*

Scientific instruments have emerged as a central theme in the history
and philosophy of science and in science and technology studies. In
*Leviathan and the Air Pump*, Shapin and Schaffer cite instruments,
together with writing style and modest witnessing, as the technologies

Curious Specimens will take place at the Victoria and Albert Museum, April 15-17, 2010. This conference takes its starting point from two major exhibitions on enlightenment collecting: Walpole and Strawberry Hill (YCBA & V&A 2009-10) and Mrs Delany’s Circle and the Art of Natural History (YCBA & John Soane’s Museum, 2009-10). The fresh finds emerging from these two major curatorial projects will inform new ways of thinking about eighteenth-century practices of collecting.

Autopsies Research Project Study Day

Friday, 4 June 2010

University College London (UCL)

The Autopsies Project explores how objects die. Just as the twentieth
century was transformed by the advent of new forms of media - the
typewriter, gramophone, and film, for example - the arrival of the
twenty-first century has brought with it the disappearance of many public
and private objects that only recently seemed essential to ‘modern life.’

Responding to recent work in cultural history, spatial studies, and 'thing