Please note: this page is to register for in-person attendance to Tim Boon's keynote speech in Cambridge. If you wish to register for the online workshop Science and the Moving Image: Histories of Intermediality, please follow this link.

Tim Boon, Head of Research & Public History for the Science Museum Group, is a historian and curator of the public culture of science. His published research (Films of Fact (2008) and Material Culture and Electronic Sound (with Frode Weium, 2013) and more than 40 papers) is concerned with the history of science in documentary films, television, museums and, latterly, music. He has contributed to the exhibitions Health Matters (1994), Making the Modern World (2000) and Oramics to Electronica (2011) amongst others. He is a former President of the British Society for the History of Science. Tim’s keynote talk is entitled “Intermediality: Modes of Science Film Research Between the Museum and the Cinema“.

The keynote will take place in Seminar Room 1, at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, University of Cambridge.

If you are intending to attend this keynote in person, please ensure that you have book a ticket in advance. If you wish to attend online, please book a ticket through the main workshop Eventbrite: a link for the keynote speech will shared with workshop attendees.

To find out more about the workshop, which includes three days of panels exploring the historical links between science and moving image, please visit our website.

Tim Boon: 'Science and the Moving Image' Workshop Keynote Speech