Friday 14th January 2011

9:15-12:30 Welcome
Pr Luc Borot, Director of the Maison Française d’Oxford

Introduction
Muriel Le Roux, Senior Researcher CNRS-MFO

Chair: Martine Pecharman, Senior Researcher CNRS-MFO

Mathematics and Communication in the Early Modern Period
Jeanne Peiffer, Director of the Centre Koyré, CNRS – Museum d’Histoire Naturelle

Communication and Civilisation Between Directoire and Empire. Political and Intellectual Stakes in Scientific Communication
Jean-Luc Chappey, Maître de conférences, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne

Forms and Channels of Communication in European Science During the 19th Century
Pietro Corsi, Professor of the History of Science of the University of Oxford

Discussions chaired by John Perkins, Oxford Brookes University

2:00-7:00

Chair: Sabine Rommevaux, Senior Researcher, CNRS - President of the Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques

The Royal Society and The Communication of Science
Peter Collins, Director of Centre for History of Science of the Royal Society

Between Science and Industry: Communicating Medical Results Today 
Pierre Etienne Bost, Délégué général de l’Académie des technologies

Voltaire and Networks of Communication, From the 18th Century to the 21st Century, the Mission of the Voltaire Foundation
Nicholas Cronk, Director of the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford

Discussion chaired by Robert Fox, Professor (retired) of the History of Science of the University of Oxford

Keynote Lecture

Chaired by Professor Paul Madden, FRS FRSE, Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford

Communicating Science Today: A Franco-British Comparison
Professor Alain Fuchs, President of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Discussions chaired by Pr Robert Fox, University of Oxford

Thanks
Dr Serge Plattard, Science and Technology Counsellor, French Embassy

Saturday 15th January 2011

9:15-1:15 Welcome

Pr Luc Borot, Director of the Maison Française d’Oxford

Chair: Dr Viviane Quirke, Oxford Brookes University and Secretary of the British Society for the History of Science

Communicating Science and Science Communication: Examples from 20th Century Structural Biology in Britain
Georgina Ferry, Journalist - Science Writer

Sorbonne From Communication to Strategy: Three Cases of French Research Centres CNRS, IFREMER, INRIA
Pascal Griset, Professor, Université de Paris IV

When Media Rank Universities: The Case of Le Monde de l’Education in France (1976-1996)
Julie Bouchard, Maître de conférences, Université Paris 13, LabSic

Technology, Communication and Assessment 
Daniel Benamouzig, Senior Researcher CNRS-MFO

Discussions chaired by John Perkins, Oxford Brookes University

Keynote Lecture
Chaired by Pr Pietro Corsi, Professor of the History of Science of the University of Oxford

Communicating and Propagandising about Science and Society: British Scientific Intellectuals 1930-1970
Professor David Edgerton, Hans Rausing Chair, Imperial College

Discussions chaired by Pr Pietro Corsi, University of Oxford

Presentation of the forthcoming conference in Paris
Muriel Le Roux, Pietro Corsi, Robert Fox, John Perkins, Viviane Quirke