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The Max Planck Research Network “History of Scientific Objects” Wandering Seminar has just finished a week’s intensive course at the Medical Museion. The group — 16 pre- and postdocs from a number of European universities (plus Harvard) — came to Copenhagen after a week at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. We (i.e., Anders, Camilla, Hanne, […]

A symposium with the titillating title “Historicide and reiteration” (and the more pedestrian subtitle “Innovation in the sciences, humanities and the arts”) will be held 9-10 February, 2007 at Maastricht University (nice town, worth a visit!). The meeting promises to touch upon some rather fundamental topics for science, technology and medical history museums. The dead-line […]

I sidste nummer af Weekendavisen (nr. 18, 5. – 10. maj, Ideer, s.9) gengiver Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen og Henry Nielsen de argumenter imod en naturvidenskabelig kanon, som bla. Helge Kragh og undertegnede udviklede i et temanummer af tidskriftet BioZoom for en måned siden. Men selv om det på overfladen ser ud som om Nielsen & […]

If you are in London on Thursday 25 May, you’re invited to attend my talk at the South Kensington Institute for the history of Technology (which is a collaborative enterprise of the Science Museum and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College), titled “Microarray Technology and Regimes of Biopower: a […]

The Universeum network annual meetings gather people working in university owned museums. The next Universeum meeting is held in Strasbourg 22-24 June, 2006. Contact Sebastien Soubiran, Mission culture scientifique et technique de l’Université Louis Pasteur, 7 rue de l’Université, 67000 Strasbourg, France (Sebastien.Soubiran@adm-ulp.u-strasbg.fr) for further info. Program:

Remember Ivan Illich, the heckler of modern institutions? He was quite well-known in the 1970’s and 1980’s for his severe criticism of modern education (Deschooling society, 1971), and for his analysis of the problems of the medical institutions, especially the hospital system. In Medical Nemesis (1976) he suggested that the greatest threat to human health […]

Ingemar Nilsson og Margareta Hallberg, Institutionen för idéhistoria och vetenskapsteori, Göteborgs Universitet (Institutionen för idéhistoria och vetenskapsteori, Göteborgs Universitet) planlægger en konference på temaet “Samtidshistorisk medicinhistoria” mandag den 23. oktober 2006. De vil have forslag til præsentationer senest den 31. august (titel + kort abstract). Sendes til ingemar.nilsson@hum.gu.se (Nærmere detaljer kommer nok på dette website […]

How do you document the recent history of science?, asks Gustav Holmberg in the Swedish version of his blog, The Imaginary Magnitude? Well, here’s an attempt: Ron Doel (Dept of History, Oregon State University) and myself are about to publish a collection called Writing Recent Science on Routledge, later this summer. We have our own […]

Preliminary announcement: The Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Copenhagen are planning a joint half-day symposium on “Evolutionary Medicine”, Friday 15 December, 2006. Keynote speakers include professor Randolph Nesse (Univ of Michigan) and professor Stephen Stearns (Yale Univ). Their talks will be followed by a panel discussion […]

There are still a few vacant seats around the table at the Copenhagen station of the Max Planck Research Network’s European Wandering Seminar, “History of Scientific Objects”, 8 – 12 May. Remaining seats will be distributed according the first-come-first-seated principle. PhD students will have priority. Participation fee is 300 DKK per day (including coffee and […]

Findes der nogle gode argumenter for at oprette danske (eller svenske, eller norske, eller monegaskiske) medicinske, teknologiske og naturvidenskabelige kanoner? Jeg tvivler på det. For det første har hverken medicin, teknologi eller naturvidenskab noget særligt nationalt præg. Og for det andet er kanonbegrebet med til at fordreje forståelsen af, hvordan medicin, teknologi og naturvidenskab udvikles […]

Hi Susanne — this is an awesome one: (from Metasystems) I’ve been browsing around for a while. These are cool images, yes. But do they involve “imaging”?