PROGRAM
The Scientific Knowledge and Its Public Understanding: Interdisciplinary Perspectives conference provides a scholarly forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical approaches to problems in science communication, the public understanding of science and socioscientific controversies.
Its organization has been possible thanks to sponsoring by Vicerrectorado de Investigación Universidad de Sevilla and the support of a Beca Leonardo para Investigadores y Creadores Culturales. See the program below! |
Jueves 20 Octubre/Thursday 20th October
Where: Aula de Grados
18.35 Institutional Welcome Address (César Moreno, Javier Saavedra)
18.45h Mikkel Gerken (SDU)
Mikkel Gerken’s talk on Scientific Testimony. Its Roles in Science and Society
– Ask for Thursday Social program –
Viernes 21 Octubre/Friday 21st October
Where: Salón de Actos
(Chair: Antonio Gaitán (UC3M))
9.45-10.25 Arnon Keren & Sarit Barzilai (University of Haifa)
‘Understanding the Division of Cognitive Labor: Scientific Consensus and Doing Your Own Research’
10.25-11.05 Angelo Fasce (University of Coimbra)
‘How to address anti-vaccination arguments? Validation of a Taxonomy and Empathetic Rebuttals’
11.05-11.45 Lola S. Almendros (Universidad de Salamanca) & Javier Echeverría (Jakiunde)
`Techno-scientific Knowledge System Deficits: a bibliometric study to assess communication and debate within scientific communities during the COVID-19 crisis’
11.45 COFFEE BREAK
12.05 Anjan Chakravartty (Appignani Foundation Professor, University of Miami)
‘Public Understanding of Science and Science Education’
12.45 Henrik Zinkernagel (FiloLab, Universidad de Granada)
‘Sustainability and the Role of Aesthetics in Science Communication’
13.30 LUNCH BREAK
Afternoon sessions
(Chairs: Lola M. Vizuete, Daniel Pino)
15.30 Alejandro Fernández Roldán (UNED / UC3M)
‘Is There Bias? Is There Noise? Assessing the Scientificity of Political Fact-Checking: Evidence from a Spanish Case Study’
16.10 Vanessa Schipani (University of Pennsylvania)
‘Can Reporting Accurate Scientific Information Harm the Public?’
16.50 Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry (McGill University)
‘Proving Future or Indirect Harms in Court: Ideology Meets Empirical Uncertainty’
17.30 TEA BREAK
17.50h Linda Skitka (Emerita Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago)
'Motivated Cognition and Science Denial: Ideologically symmetrical or asymmetrical?'
Ask for the Friday Social Program
Sábado 22 Octubre/Saturday 22nd October
(Chairs: Daniel Barbarrusa, Angelo Fasce)
9.45 – 10.25 Ana Muñoz van den Eynde & Unai Coto (Unidad de Investigación CTS, CIEMAT)
‘Public Understanding of Science: Individual Differences and Social Context’
10.25. 11.05 Petr Specian (Charles University, Prague)
‘Science and Trust in the Digital Age’
11.05 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Ivar R. Hannikainen (Ramón y Cajal Fellow; FiloLab, Universidad de Granada)
‘Scientific Beliefs and Their Impact on bioethical Controversies’
12.10 Short Break
12.20 Stephan Lewandowsky (Chair of Cognitive Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of Bristol)
'Communicating Science in a "Post-Truth" World'
Ask for Saturday Social Program
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Organizers: Hugo Viciana, Aníbal M. Astobiza & Angelo Fasce (Contact: [email protected])