We are very proud to announce that Microbes on the Mind’s PhD student, Guston Sondin-Kung will defense his PhD at Kunsthal Charlottenborg June 23rd from 9:15-12:15 Following the defense at 12:15 there will be champagne and canapes.
PhD defense: TO CARRY IMAGES – THE LANDSCAPE OF EMBODIED IMAGING
Sommer på Medicinsk Museion
Denne sommer har vi lavet et særligt program til vores sommergæster. Vi har skattejagt til børnene, vores omvisere introducerer hver dag til museets udstillinger og som noget helt nyt tilbyder vi kaffe og kolde drikke i vores gårdcafé.
PHD FELLOWSHIP AT MEDICAL MUSEION, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
Medical Museion is pleased to advertise a fully funded PhD position with start the 15th of September 2022. The subject of the PhD is research culture & creativity and how these may to other phenomena in contemporary academia such as, e.g. connectivities to the ‘outside’ of academia; transdisciplinary collaborations; the use of performance indicators and other business strategies or the time and pace of thinking and working creatively.
Timeless spaces: Cave experiments in chronobiology
The question of biological time requires us to imagine our bodies in the context of their environments. While we all carry within us an internal clock (or circadian timing system) which has evolved over millennia, our clocks are also constantly in conversation with...
Vi søger museumsvagt – 12 timer ugentligt
Vil du være en del af et museum i udvikling? Er du god til at bevare overblikket og give en god museumsoplevelse, mens du sikrer dig, at genstande og gæster er vel? Har du teknisk snilde, og har du mod på en hektisk dag, hvor der sjældent er ro og aldrig to dage, der er ens? Så er du måske vores nye kollega.
DASTS 2022 AArhus
Proposals for papers are welcomed for a panel stream on ASTS for the DASTS conference to be held. June 2-3 in Aarhu
Podcast: The Living Room
The Living Room is part of the podcast series TrailMix[ED] featuring original sound work and conversations between Caitlin DeSilvey, Martin Grünfeld and Eduardo Abrantes. The podcast is based on a series of conversations between Caitlin DeSilvey from University of...
Jobopslag – studentermedhjælp
Medicinsk Museion søger otte studentermedhjælpere til at indgå i vores dygtige korps af omvisere i museets udstillinger. Deadline 2.2.22
Medicinsk Museion vinder Dibner Award
Medicinsk Museion vinder Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits for onlineudstillingen: Life Support. Prisen tildeles 20. november 2021. LIFE Support under en pandemiHvad opretholder livet i en pandemi? Dette spørgsmål stillede Medicinsk Museions medarbejdere...
Upcoming talk about curating decay in The Living Room
Tomorrow September 21st from 12 to 14 CET you have the chance to join an online conversation event featuring Cornelia Sollfrank, Amy Whitaker, Brian Castriota, Caitlin DeSilvey and myself taking place as part of the workshop “The work of art without...
Curating Decay in The Living Room – Notes from an ongoing conversation
In spring 2021, Martin Grünfeld (University of Copenhagen) and Caitlin DeSilvey (University of Exeter) began a period of virtual collaboration around their shared interest in curating decay in museum contexts, with support from the Medical Museion at The University of...
Curating Time
What does time mean to you? Is it the ticking of a clock? The rhythm of a dance? The oscillation of a cell? Still from Time Animals – Isabella Martin, 2021 The prospect of curating a selection of objects and artworks on the theme of ‘time’ for The World is in...
Life on- and offline
By Joana Formosinho On July 15th, I had the pleasure of presenting a talk entitled INHABITING THE CONCEPT OF HOLOBIONT: THINKING THROUGH VISUAL IMAGERY at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology’s first...
Inhabiting the concept of holobiont: thinking through visual imagery
By Joana Formosinho On June 23th 2021, I (Joana Formosinho) had the pleasure of giving a talk at Aarhus University’s Center for Environmental Humanities. The talk was based on my research of how the rise to prominence of microbes within biology and biomedicine, as...
Microbiomic Dietary Orientations at the Chronic Living Conference
By Andréa Wiszmeg On March 4th – 6th 2021, the international conference Chronic Living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century took place. As with so many other events the past year and a half the conference was an online event, however, it was an...
Eating for gut health – a survey on probiotic food
By Andréa Wiszmeg Fermentation for cooking and preservation has old roots and can be found in most food cultures around the world. For a long time, people have chosen what to eat in order to maintain and strengthen a healthy gut. This seems to be a rising trend, with...
Bevilling til Medicinsk Museion til overtagelse af sygehushistorisk samling fra Holstebro
Medicinsk Museion har modtaget 711.291 kr. fra Cand. Pharm Povl M. Assens Fond til at overtage instrumenter, diagnoseudstyr, billeder mm. fra Holstebro Sygehus. Foto: Optræningsbarnecykel til optræning af børn med ortopædiske sygdomme. Medicinsk Museion har med glæde...
Text as technology
Text as technology for care and understanding is an upcoming PhD course, asking what ‘text’ is, and how and when ‘text’ matters in practices of education, medicine, care, hybrid art, exhibitions and research. To explore these questions and their implications, we bring...
Upcoming online talk: Curating Decay in The Living Room
Tomorrow June 10th from 11 to 13 you have the chance to join a conversation event taking place online as part of the Future Urban Legacy Lab online discussion series at Politechnico di Torino. Together with Caitlin DeSilvey, I will discuss our collaborative work on...
Multiplying our senses of caring at the museum: Saving, nurturing and beyond
In my previous blog post, I invited you on a virtual conceptual tour into the imaginary of The Living Room. Today I wish to dwell on the conception of care at museums and propose extending our sense of what it means to care beyond our inclinations to save at all...
Digital eventserie: Medicin til den forbundne krop
Vores kroppe er forbundne. Med hinanden, med vores forfædre, med vores omgivelser og med planeten. I denne eventserie vil vi undersøge, hvordan banebrydende forskning i den forbundne krop påvirker nutidens og fremtidige muligheder for behandling af sygdomme. En række...
RESEARCH INVITATION: HOW CAN WE TALK ABOUT GUT AND PSYCHE?
What happens when we talk about the connection between our gut and psyche? How might such ‘articulations’ change the ways we understand the body, self and health? How can writing down personal memories help us experiment with ‘body talk’? Sign-up here before June 2,...
Studentermedhjælpere søges 8 timer/uge til særudstilling, Medicinsk Museion (midlertidige stillinger)
Medicinsk Museion søger 5 studentermedhjælpere (HK) til vores igangværende art-science projekt i en periode på 15 uger fra oktober 2021 til januar 2022 (med oplæring i juni og august). ”Verden er i dig” er en ambitiøs interdisciplinær udstilling, der kombinerer kunst,...
FRUGTBARHED OG FØDSEL
Børn er og bliver et fikspunkt i vores eksistens som art. At kunne få børn, og at overleve fødslen af dem, har optaget mennesker altid. Historier om ufrugtbarhed rækker ligeså langt tilbage, som vi har nedskrevne fortællinger.
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