Past events -- overview

Workshop on scientific discourse, Sydney, July 1994


Staff Club, Mungo MacCallum Building, University of Sydney


Tuesday, July 19

9:00-9:10 [Jim Martin & Robert Veel 'Welcome']

9:10-10:30 [Chair: David Butt]
Charles Bazerman 'Squirming our way out of flatland: preliminary reports on some barely perceived dimensions of scientific discourse'

10:30-11:00 [morning tea]

11:00-12:30 [Chair: Suzanne Eggins]
Gillian Fuller 'Negotiating discourse in popular science: chatting texts for the chattering classes'

12:30-2:00 [lunch - staff club]

2:00-3:30 [Chair: Clare Painter]
Michael Halliday 'Things and relations: regrammaticizing experience as technical knowledge'

3:30-4:00 [afternoon tea]

4:00-5:30 [Chair: Peter Wignell]
David Rose 'Science industry discourse'

5:30 on [drinks - staff club]

8:00 [Workshop dinner]


Wednesday July 20

9:00-10:30 [Chair: Rick Iedema]
Peter White 'Technology and the discourse of marketing'

10:30-11:00 [morning tea]

11:00-12:30 [Chair: Michael O'Toole]
Jay Lemke 'Multiplying meaning: visual and verbal semiotics in scientific text'

12:30-2:00 [lunch - staff club]

2:00-3:30 [Chair: Joan Rothery]
Frances Christie 'Teaching primary science'

3:00-4:00 [afternoon tea]

4:00-5:30 [Chair: Jim Martin]
Robert Veel 'The greening of school science'

5:30 on [drinks - staff club & ...ad hoc dinners to be arranged by participants]