Call for proposals for Science & You International Conference on Science Communication
Beijing, 15-17 September 2018

Knowing, Sharing, Caring : new insights for a diverse world

Science & You promotes and valorizes the culture of science. For the first time, it will take place in China. Following openings made by the National Academy of Innovation Strategy (NAIS) (Beijing), a collaboration was brokered with the University of Lorraine (France) with a view to organize the conference in China in September 2018.

Science & You is the offshoot and development of the “Hubert Curien Days” on the science of culture, named after the French physicist and minister of research and technology, were created by the University of Lorraine with the ambition to make them an unmissable international forum for researchers and professionals of the culture of science. This will to develop the culture of science coincides with that of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), which is celebrating its 60th birthday this year.

Globalization rests upon diversity: diversity of science communication strategies and practices, diversity of contexts in which communication actions take place, diversity of publics at which is aimed science communication, diversity of reception, diversity of understanding… diversity of questions, issues, responsibilities, of science communicators as well as scientists… diversity of research in science of science communication, models, approaches, applications, impacts… This conference wants to acknowledge this diversity of contexts, publics, research, strategies and new insights… because it aims to be a place of sharing, exchanges, discussions and debates… an environment conducive to decentring, and an opportunity for enrichment.

• Publics, groups, communities
 Diversity of publics
 Local knowledge
 Participation, engagement, involvement
 People’s science culture
 Cultures of science

• Scientists, science, society
 Resistance to science communication
 Responsible scientist
 Science as culture
 Science and anti-science
 Science and public sphere

• Communicators, mediators, practitioners
 Social responsibility of science communicators
 Local contexts
 Critical innovation
 Outreaching communities
 Responsive science communication

• Science communication domain
 Emerging research fields
 Traditions of research
 Researchers and practitioners
 New theoretical and empirical models
 Perspectives on science communication