[LM_NET] GEN: FL conference: Transforming Encounters II

[Melanie Aultman <melaniehaha@YAHOO.COM>]

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Melanie  Aultman

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From: "Lauren Brosnihan" <brosniha@english.ufl.edu>

To: <fl-lib@list.dos.state.fl.us>

Subject: Transforming Encounters II

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:22:22 -0500

We wish to cordially invite you to attend the second annual

colloquium

sponosored by the Center for Children's Literature and Culture at the

University of Florida.

Our conference this year is titled: "Transforming Encounters II:

Children and Science, Imagination and Inquiry." It will be held on

the

University of Florida Campus on February 18th and 19th. The

colloquium

will explore a range of approaches, new and traditional, historical

and

contemporary, for bringing science literacy into children's lives.

Like

last year's colloquium ("Children's Libraries Unbound"), we will once

again be examining some of the innovative ways of kindling curiosity

among young people in the sciences -- a subject that has and will

continue to play a vital role in the our cultural environment.

The conference audience and participants will be a very eclectic,

interdisciplinary one, including scientists, educators, scholars,

researchers, librarians, and media specialists -- as well as poets,

artists, and writers.

This year's conference is sponsored by the University of Florida's

Center for Children's Literature and Culture, College of Liberal

Arts &

Sciences, Department of English, and France Florida Research

Institute.

Other participants include the Florida Museum of Natural History, the

University of Florida's College of Education, The Alachua County

Library

District, The Alachua County Schools, and The Baldwin Library of

Historical Children's Literatures.

Please see our website for the impressive list of national and

international participants and their innovative programs and

contributions. A group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University

and the University of Pittsburgh will present their unique

Explanatoids

project that place science information in Pittsburgh's public spaces

using electronic bulletin boards and other very accessible venues.

Marie

Vannouque-Digne, the Cultural Attachée in the French Embassy in

Washington will speak about the innovative French science program for

young people, La Main a la Pate, initiated by the Nobel Laureate in

Physics, Georges Charpak. And Vicki Cobb, author of numerous books

about

science for young people (including the award-winning /I Touch the

Wind/), will be presenting _her_ "hands-on" approach to science.

Conference participants will also be able to tour the Butterfly

Rainforest

and the McGuire Center at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies/exhibits.htm

These events are free and open to the public. Please

check the website for more information and for the registration form.

http://www.recess.ufl.edu/Transform2/index.shtml

We are very excited about the colloquium and its featured speakers,

and

we sincerely hope that you will be able to join us at the University

of

Florida for what promises to be a stimulating, interdisciplinary

program

of presentations and discussions. Our thanks in advance for your

help in

spreading the word about the conference.



John Cech

Director, Center for Children's Literature and Culture

University of Florida

Please contact Lauren Brosnihan for additional information at:

brosniha@english.ufl.edu











Melanie Aultman, Library Specialist
Waldo Library, Waldo, FL
melaniehaha@yahoo.com

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