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As a newcomer to a social networking service called Facebook (maybe, you’ve heard about it?), I’m intrigued by the fact that so many profile face images show only parts of the face. In this random selection of profile images displayed when I click “People You May Know“, 50% show part-faces only: It seems to be a fairly new fashion (maybe a […]

I cannot resist this wonderful comment on the writing style of Giorgio ‘bare-life’ Agamben (or rather the crowd of Agambians): 1. Take a suitably lengthy, informative, and arcane wikipedia entry – my suggestion is this on Noah’s Ark. 2. Use as many of the original language reference and most arcane features in said entry to trace […]

The increased digitalisation of science and technology is problematic for museums as institutions for the preservation of the material cultural heritage. The reasons is that we usually think of digital information as something ‘immaterial’, a mere collection of zeros and ones that —as Jean-François Blanchette (Dept. of Information Studies, UCLA) points out—are considered “wholly independent from the particular […]

Diskussionen om hvilke farve vi skal have på vægge, paneler og dørkarmer i tre rum på 1. sal i Akademibygningen er gået igang. Meningerne i huset er delt, og udefra begynder gamle og nye venner at blande sig. Skal vi male de tre rum i efter den farvearkæologiske rapports vurdering af de oprindelige farver (ultramarine […]

Next Friday, 17 December, Elena Corradini at the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia organises a seminar on “Visiting an Anatomical Museum: curiosity or training?”: Anatomical University Museums are the keepers of collections which often are very old and different for their consistence and typology. These museums have a fundamental role for the preservation and valorization […]

I oktober måned bad Statens Museum for Kunst vores samlingsleder og konservator Ion om at rense og konservere to nyerhvervede kunstværker. Det drejede sig om to af hestepræparaterne fra Bjørn Nørgaards meget berømte happening Hesteofringen fra 1970, der gav ham tilnavnet hesteslagteren. Ion inviterede mig til at overvære rensningen af den slagtede hest Røde Fanes […]

I had coffee and cake with our new PhD Adrian Bertoli the other day. Adrian is going to work with the relationship between type-2-diabetes and patient identity throughout the last 50 years, with Thomas as supervisor. Adrian’s project is financed by the cross-disciplinary Center for Healthy Ageing at Copenhagen University. Knowledge about an illness is traditionally communicated […]

The theme of the 6th annual conference in the ‘Science and the Public’ series, to be held at Kingston University, London, on 2-3 July 2011, is ‘A Quarter Century of PUS: Retrospect and Prospect.’ The meeting takes the publication of the Royal Society’s report into the public understanding of science (the Bodmer Report) in 1985 as its point of […]

The NIH Office of History has just announced a new batch of Stetten Fellowship for postdoctoral historical research on the biomedical sciences and technology since 1945. The stipends are ~$45,000 per year, include health insurance and office accommodation, computer and phone, and can be renewable to a maximum of 24 months. Application deadline is 31 December 2010. Full […]

Keep on eye open on the journal Heritage & Society (a refurbishment of the only three-year old Heritage Management), edited out of the Center for Heritage & Society at the University of Massachussetts, which will provide a forum for scholarly, professional, and community reflection on the cultural, political, and economic impacts of heritage on contemporary society: […]

I dag spiste jeg kage med vores nye Ph.d.-stipendiat Adrian Bertoli som skal arbejde med forholdet mellem type-2-diabetes og patientidentitet i de sidste 50 år med Thomas som vejleder. Adrians projekt er finansieret af Center for Sund Aldring ved Københavns Universitet. Viden om en sygdom er traditionelt blevet kommunikeret direkte fra lægen (kilden) til patienten […]

If we didn’t have a history of museums, but wanted to invent them now: a museum invented now would be conversational and authoritative – here’s this thing, and here’s why it’s cool (my emphasis) (from here)