The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine (STEM)

THE CULTURE OF PRINT IN SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MEDICINE (STEM), scheduled for September 11-13. About fifty presenters from several different countries will provide a fascinating line up in sessions held on Friday and Saturday
in the Pyle Center. The most recent version of the program is on the web at
http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/STEMConferencePage.html

Two free and public lectures and receptions are associated with the
conference.

On Thursday at 4.30, Professor Anita Guerrini will give a lecture titled: "Animals and Humans in Early Modern Anatomical Illustrations" This will take place on the 9th floor of Memorial Library, where you can also view the Special Collections Exhibit "Color Enhanced: The Use of Color in Scientific Books."

On Friday at 6.00, Professor Jim Secord will lecture on:
"The Laboratory of Print."
It has become a ritual commonplace to claim that we are witnessing a
profound transformation in print culture, akin to the introduction of
the printing press in the fifteenth century. Yet much current research
on communication in science, medicine, and technology remains resolutely
unhistorical. Conversely, historians of these subjects are only
beginning to draw upon the insights of contemporary communication
studies, although they have used work in (for example) the
microsociology of knowledge for at least two decades. This paper
explores how these fields might benefit from being brought more closely
together. It suggests the need to reexamine some of the
taken-for-granted dichotomies which structure research in these fields,
particularly the role of ethnographic, literary, and rhetorical
approaches in relation to statistical studies and accounts of long-term
trends.

The lecture will take place at: Memorial Union, Tripp Commons (2nd Floor), University of Wisconsin-Madison