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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The History of Science Society and the BU Center for Philosophy and History of Science present</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">Science in the Streets: Public Engagement Then and Now</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">part of the HSS <i>History of Science Matters Initiative</i>, designed to highlight the relevance of the history of science beyond it’s normal academic boundaries</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Thursday, November 21<sup>st</sup>, 3pm – 6pm</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, room 253C</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Two panel discussions exploring innovative ways of connecting citizens with science, and how the history of science can inform and enrich these efforts.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Science and Spectacle </span>
</b><span style="font-size:14pt">(3pm – 4:30pm)<b></b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Science Festivals and the Changing Culture of Science Engagement</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">-John Durant (MIT Museum and Cambridge Science Festival)</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">History of Science with a Sense of Humor</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">-Brian Malow (Science Comedian) + David Kaiser (MIT)</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in">Carving Story Out of Science: On Stage and On Air</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in">-Ari Daniel (Story Collider and Freelance Reporter)</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>PANEL DISCUSSION</b> with historians of science Gerardo Aldana, Oliver Hochadal, and Heidi Voskuhl</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Crowdsourcing: Science by the People?
</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">(4:30pm – 6pm)<b></b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Crowdsourcing at the Smithsonian: From 1849 Weather Observers to Today’s
<i>Encyclopedia of Life</i></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">-Pamela Henson (Institutional History, Smithsonian Institute Archives)</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Data: From Whewell’s “Subordinate Labourers” to Maury’s Seafarers</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">-Caren Cooper (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The Zooniverse at Your Fingertips</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">-Lucy Fortson (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Citizen Science Alliance)</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>PANEL DISCUSSION</b> with historians of science Deborah Coen, Leandra Swanner, and Lukas Rieppel.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>Questions to be explored include</b>: What are some of the new creative initiatives to engage the public in science? Do these initiatives have a historical precedent? How has the relationship between “science” and “the public” changes
over time? Why do citizens become involved in crowdsourcing? Is crowdsourcing a democratization of science or exploitative? What are the goals of engaging the public in science? How can historians of Science contribute to efforts in public engagement?</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">This event is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. For further information and updates please visit:
<a href="http://www.hssonline.org/scienceinthestreets">www.hssonline.org/scienceinthestreets</a></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Co-sponsored by the History of Science Society (HSS) and the BU Center for Philosophy and History of Science:
<a href="http://www.bu.edu/cphs/">www.bu.edu/cphs/</a></p>
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<div dir="ltr">Erin Seeba<br>
Administrative Assistant<br>
Center for Philosophy and History of Science<br>
Boston University<br>
745 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 506<br>
Boston, MA 02215<br>
617-353-2604<br>
<a href="http://www.bu.edu/cphs" target="_blank">www.bu.edu/cphs</a><br>
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