The Imaginaries of Science and Society

The Sci Screen at the Chapter Arts Centre is a new crosscutting event promoting the engagement of society in the complex field of biomedical science and genetics. It will use film to explain and inform in an understandable and entertaining way the wider social interpretations and implications of developments in biomedical science.

The event will include an opportunity for discussion and debate. At the end of each film, a panel discussion consisting of 3-4 invited local biomedical scientists, academics from the social sciences and humanities, bioethics experts and other user communities will take place. This will encourage and support the participating general public to engage in an informed, educated and lively discussion - with one another and the experts - concerning some of the important social, political and ethical issues which the audience believed were raised by the films

A Single Man - Sunday 14th March 5pm

Is depression a reasonable response to a tragic circumstance or is it a clinical disease? This screening of 'A single Man' will include an opportunity for discussion and debate. After a short introduction by academics at Cardiff University, the film will be screened. At the end of the film, a panel discussion with biomedical scientists and social scientists will take place with the audience to discuss some of the issues brought up during the film. The focus of debate will centre on issues of psychological disorders, grief and bereavement, suicide and our perceptions of normality and abnormality.

Sci Screen: Fiction and fact in film SingleMan.pdf (150k)

Wolfman - Monday 29th March 6pm

Why are we so fascinated with the monstrous and the anomalous? This screening of 'Wolfman will include an opportunity for discussion and debate.

After a short introduction by academics at Cardiff University, the film will be screened. At the end of the film, a panel discussion with biomedical scientists and social scientists will take place with the audience to discuss some of the issues brought up during the film. The focus of debate will centre on the rise in popularity of the gothic in film, the historical treatment of madness, human enhancement and trigger events for psychiatric disorders.

Sci Screen: Fiction and fact in film WolfMan.pdf (1.12mb) 

The events are a collaboration between:
The MRC Centre for the Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics
The ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics
The British Science Association
Welsh Assembly Government
Chapter Arts Centre