Portraiture and Scientific Identity

at National Portrait Gallery, London
on 23-24 June 2000

** Announcement and Call for Papers (and Portraits) **

This conference is being organised by the National Portrait Gallery
and the British Society for the History of Science.

The likely pattern of conference will be four plenary sessions and a
number of shorter sessions with papers of 25 minutes. Professor Ludmilla
Jordanova is responsible for the programme, and offers of short
papers can be made to her at any time between now and 1 November
1999. This should take the form of a brief abstract of no more than
one page, together with any supporting material thought appropriate,
for example, a list of items already published on the topic.

The final programme will be drawn up by Christmas 1999 and it will be
circulated in the new year. A copy of the final programme can be sent
to those who provide the Education Department of the National
Portrait Gallery (St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE) with a stamped
addressed envelop marked 'BSHS conference'.

The meeting is being held in association with a small exhibition at the National
Portrait Gallery, which will explore portraiture in relation to practitioners
of science, medicine and technology since the seventeenth century in
Britain. The exhibition will open in late March or early April and
will close at the end of June 2000. It will contain works in all
media, and suggestions of unusual, visually interesting items that
might be included can be made to Professor Jordanova, who would be
particularly interested to hear of relevant self-portraits and of
portraits made within domestic settings. The practice of portraiture
is one of the main themes of the exhibition, so preparatory sketches
are of particular relevance.

Professor Ludmilla Jordanova can be contacted at School of World
Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich,
Norfolk, NR4 7TJ. Email: [log in to unmask]

The BSHS website is at:

http://www.man.ac.uk/Science_Engineering/CHSTM/bshs/