Call for Papers
The aims of the IV International Seminar are to encourage scholarly research on the preservation of scientific heritage, conservation and documentation of collections of instruments, as well as their use within the wider disciplines related to scientific heritage studies and museology.
Papers submitted to the IV International Seminar on Material Culture and Scientific Heritage should address issues and challenges pertaining to research, interpretation, and promotion of scientific heritage understood in a wide spectrum, including scientific and technological knowledge produced by man, and all those objects (including paper documents), archaeological and ethnographic collections, and specimens of biological collections that are testimonies of scientific processes and technological development.
IVSPCT especially welcomes papers from post-graduate students (see fee discounts).
Submission Details
Papers may be presented in two forms: oral contributions (15 minutes) or poster papers.
If you would like to submit a paper, please read the Call and send an abstract in English (max. 300 words), as well as equipment required, to: marcus@mast.br
Receipt of submitted abstracts will by acknowledged by email. The deadline for submission of abstracts is June 27, 2016.
The texts of conferences, round tables and papers selected for oral presentation will be made available in full via electronic proceedings. The deadline for submission of the full texts of the papers that have their abstracts selected for oral presentation is July 11, 2016. Complete texts of papers should have a minimum of 10 pages and a maximum of 30 pages, including attachments, figures and tables.
Oral presentations:
Language: English or Portuguese
Duration: 25 min (20+5)
Multimedia equipment available: computer projectors.
Poster papers:
Posters should be A1 (594mm × 841mm), portrait format.
Posters can be presented in English and Portuguese.
