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Here is the announcement for International Society for Intellectual History’s conference “Museum Narratives and Representations”, to be held 6-8 October, 2006 at the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Museum Narratives and Representations The aim of this international conference is to explore the institution of the museum, as well as the concept of the […]

Seminar: Access and audiences: Reaching out with medical and healthcare collections Tuesday 18 October April 2005, 4.30 – 6.30 pm Thackray Museum, Leeds http://www.thackraymuseum.org Speakers: Rachel Bairsto, British Dental Association; Dawn Kemp, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; Fiona Elliott, Thackray Museum. Commentator: Emm Barnes, University of Manchester, Centre for HSTM

Program for efterårets seminarrække ved Biocampus. Invitation til BioCampus Netværksmøder:

De kulturhistoriske museers faglige årsmøde bliver afholdt igen i år i Fuglsø, den 16. – 18. november. Mødet består dels af et officielt årsmøde, hvor foreningen vælger bestyrelse, aflægge årsberetning m.v. Dels er der møde i museumsinspekørernes forskellige faglige grupperinger, dvs. arkæologerne har deres halvdagssessioner, nyere tids inspektører deres, konservatorerne deres etc. Mødet er uden […]

Netværket holder møde i Hillerød 3. – 4. oktober 2005. Museologisk netværk er et netværk oprettet for snart en del år siden. Sigtet er at fremme museologien i Danmark.

The patient is a central category of recent (bio)medicine — this symposium focuses on the fragile patient, the patient as an object of biomedical science and industrialized care: The Patient: A Symposium, Bucknell University, October 18 & 19, 2006 Precariously situated between home and hospital, work and bed, life and death, the patient occupies a […]

Things are happening in the field of historiography that may have interesting consequences for the way we conceptualise the “representation” of recent biomedicine in a museum context, e.g., this conference: Presence: A viable alternative to representation? An international conference at Groningen University, The Netherlands Center for Metahistory Groningen (CMG), December 1 & 2, 2005 For […]

Invitation and call for 1st annual symposium of the DK-UK Postgraduate Forum on Bio-studies: Current issues in bio-studies and society, 17th-18th November 2005, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK This event will be the first meeting of the newly founded DK-UK Postgraduate Forum on Bio-studies. In both the United Kingdom and in Denmark, […]

Invitation from Lene Koch to the Medical Museion -group: What: Stem cell group meets Nik Brown and Helen Busby Where: Sofastuen, Panuminstituttet Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 N When: September 27. 9.30 – 17

Der er intet uddrag, da dette er et beskyttet indlæg.

“Genomics no longer casts genes as the blueprint that determines traits of humans, animals or plants. Rather genes are seen as “contextual” or as part of an interactive network that encompasses the genome, the cell, the organism and the natural and social environment” Conference: “Genomics in Context”, 28th-30th September, 2005, ESRC Centre for Genomics in […]

Flesh & Bones, the online newsletter of National Museum of Health and Medicine, Wash. DC, writes in their August-September 2005-issue: National Museum of Health and Medicine announces the opening of its newest exhibition: “Penelope: The World’s First Autonomous, Vision-guided, Intelligent, Robotic, Surgical Instrument Server.” A robotic scrub nurse assistant with speech recognition, machine vision, and […]