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At Medical Museion we have started collecting conference posters to study visual and cultural practices in biomedical research.  A conference poster is used to present new results that haven’t been published in articles or even completely verified. The poster resembles an academic article in the way it is constructed. It consists of a title, introduction, method, […]

The organisers of the European Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL) have announced the conference streams – some might be of interest for a potential Biomedicine on Display Session. Deadline for abstracts and session proposals is Oct 15th. 

Yesterday’s very productive in-house seminar at the Medical Museion concerning future exhibitions related to the ‘Danish Biomedicine 1955-2005’-project brought up a whole range of suggestions as to the type of objects that might be brought in. Part of the discussion circled around ways in which to represent the complicated webs of interaction involved in the circulation of […]

Lynn Morgan er professor ved Five College Program in Culture, Health and Science, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA. Hendes forskning inkluderer social studies of science, antropologiske studier i livets begyndelser og afslutninger, og udviklingens politiske økonomi (se også http://www.phdpubhealth.dk/Seminarserier/stf06/). Lynn besøgte Museion i efteråret 2006 med oplægget “Embryo in/formation: the construction of embryo subjectivity […]

An unease with the current scientific publishing system was addressed in two open panels at last year’s EASST conference. Now, a new journal has been launched in order to tackle some of the issues discussed at EASST 2006. The Open peer review process of the International Journal of Feminist Technoscience (IJFT) makes use of “an interactive framework to secure quality, relevance, efficiency and democracy in […]

Here’s the manuscript for my article to the Medical Museion Yearbook 2007 which is coming out in July. It s an outline of ideas which will be explored in the workshop ‘Biomedicine and Aesthetics in a Museum Context’ and the ‘Art and Biomedicne: Beyond the Body’ conference in late August and early September, organised by Jan Eric Olsén, Stine […]

Reminder:  Tuesday 8 May, Kyra Landzelius from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Göteborg University will give a seminar talk at Medical Museion with the title “The Genealogy of a Categorical Trickster: The Preterm Baby as Modernity’s Transcription”. Kyra Landzelius is a medical anthropologist. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and since coming to Europe she […]

The Nordic Network for Visual Social Science arranges its second conference in Stockholm October 25-27, 2007 (please note, dates have been corrected by the committee). First announcement and call for papers and presentations (abstract submission before June 15) The conference will be held during three days with a program combining Presentations by and meetings with […]

The Deutsches Museum in Munich is organising a workshop “Die Sichtbarmachung des Unsichtbaren: Mikroskopische Verfahren in der Laborpraxis”, 18-19 Oktober 2007, as part of the programme “Knowledge Production at the Nanoscale. Images, Visions and Instruments in the Practice of Nanotechnology“. Here is their call for papers:

Efter tirsdagens heldagsseminar på KU om Abort og fostrets etiske status blev jeg i dag interviewet til P1s Orientering om abortpolitikkens historiske baggrund (med udgangspunkt i ph.d.-afhandlingen). Meget behageligt interview af Astrid Fischer, og ift. mediestrømmen ellers luksuriøst megen tid til at fortælle sin historie til en meget bredere kreds. Kort sagt: En top god mulighed som ville være […]

The next research seminar at Medical Museion takes place Tuesday 11 April, 2-4pm, when Solveig Jülich presents her research project “Scientific research, photojournalism or special effects? Lennart Nilsson’s visual hybrid practices”. Internationally, Lennart Nilsson is best known for his images of foetuses that were first published in Life magazine in the 1960s and have since […]

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in collaboration with the Branco Weiss fellowship “Society-in-Science”  is inviting to a workshop in Berlin on March 1-4 (organizers: Christina Brandt, MPIWG Berlin, and Giuseppe Testa, IEO Milan):    This workshop is intended to further an interdisciplinary and international discussion on historical, cultural, social and philosophical issues of cloning and stem […]