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Here is an announcement for a workshop that asks some new and interesting questions about the status of ‘biosociety futurology’. The “Futures of Life” workshop is organized by the graduate students and faculty of the Department of S&TS at Cornell University and will take place April 27-29, 2007.  

(originally published 11 October; updated 20 Oct because of new comments):  Today’s (i.e., 11 October) big public health news report is the article by a Johns Hopkins University research team published in The Lancet on-line edition on the number of war-related casualties in Iraq. “We estimate”, the authors conclude, “that as of July, 2006, there have […]

The following report of the annual meeting of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology (Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, DGGMNT) and the Society for History of Science (Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, GWG) held in Braunschweig, 28 September -1 Oktober 2006 shows that the cultural history of science is flourishing in […]

Adam, here’s something for you:  Conference on “Body and Textuality. Telling Bodies: Practices, Discourses, Looks”, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, 26-30 March, 2007 The body in the 21st century is everything but a certainty, a condition which raises an infinite number of questions. This Conference intends thus to be an interdisciplinary meeting point for discussing the body […]

The journal EMBO Reports has a good review article (“Seeing is understanding: Improvements in computer software and hardware are revolutionizing three-dimensional imaging in biology”, Embo Reports, vol. 7, pp. 467-70) of the state-of-the-art of 3D-imaging in biomedical science — read it here. They refer, among other developments in the field, to a ribosome animation movie made by Said Sannuga, a molecular […]

Here’s another workshop that deals with one of the central issues for museums that try to make sense of recent biomedicine and biotechnology, viz. how humanness (“Menschsein”) is treated narratively in biomedicine and other cultural domains, like literature.

If you happen to have your way through Toronto in the autumn and spring, why not visit The Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto to attend its “Biopolitics + Technoscience” meeting series. This series is an interdisciplinary exploration of how life-itself is transformed through technology, science, and governance in a transnational world.   Its […]

Steve Woolgar and Bruno Latour started their careers with the book Laboratory Life (1979). A child of the linguistic turn in the humanities — one of their theses was the laboratories are about inscriptions; a site were lab people constantly write and inscribe –it became one of the most cited books in the science studies literature. What they missed, […]

Now we’re up and running again. Nick has upgraded us to WordPress 2.0.4 and introduced a new and better spam filter. For better or for worse, this means that there are no more viagra or phentermine pills, mature babes, cheap boys or online poker games on sale in the comment section any more. Our in-house users/writers will also see a new […]

Kulturnatten mindede mig om en gammel diskussion vi har haft igennem årenes løb — nemmelig, hvorvidt vi skal modernisere eller lade være. Måske er det sådan, at mange af vores besøgende kan lide stedet netop fordi det ikke er 100% tip-top istandsat og professionelt. Dvs. at de vender tilbage kulturnat efter kulturnat fordi huset bærer […]

Medens vi går og venter på at fejre Rigshospitalets 250-årsjubilæum i 2007 — med jubilæumsbog af Anne Løkke, stor udstilling af Rikke Vindberg mm. — kan vi rette opmærksomheden mod et lidt mere ydmygt jubilæum. Direktionen for Hvidovre Hospital, et af Københavns regionale sygehuse, har fået lavet en film, “Hvidovre Hospital 30 år: bygget på […]

Since I began to follow the Boing Boing blog three years ago, I have seen thousands of pictures of peculiar gadgets and things in their posts. But only last week did I realise that this immensely popular blog is in fact subtitled “A Directory of Wonderful Things”! If Wikipedia is to be trusted, this has […]