COMIC. Comissió d'Instruments Científics

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

Association de sauvegarde et d’étude des instruments scientifiques et techniques de l’enseignement

New website

Mise en ligne du nouveau site de l'ASEISTE

http://www.aseiste.org

Scientific instruments in French secondary schools

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.

READING ARTIFACTS
Summer Institute in Material Culture Research

Presented by:
Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation
Collection and Research Branch and Conservation Services

Our 2009 Summer Institute broke new ground on how to approach history
through intense study of artefacts by bringing together international
experts and participants from diverse backgrounds. This years SI will
use the same formula to expose you to a unique experience and change
the way you appreciate objects and material culture.