Thomas Söderqvist 
Here’s the list of speakers at the 15th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences, to be held at Medical Museion, 16-18 September 2010, on the theme ‘Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums´.
THURSDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER
- Thomas Söderqvist: Why this conference now?
- Kim Sawchuk: Biotourism and biomediation
- Kerstin Hulter Åsberg: Uppsala Biomedical Center: A mirror of modern medical history – how can it be displayed?
- Wendy Atkinson and René Mornex: A major health museum in Lyon
- Robert Martensen: Integrating the physical and the virtual in exhibitions, archives, and historical research at the National Institutes of Health
- Ramunas Kondratas: The use of new media in medical history museums
- Danny Birchall: ‘Medical London’, Flickr, and the photography of everyday medicine
- Joanna Ebenstein: The private, curious, and niche collection: what they can teach us about exhibiting new medicine
FRIDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER
- Judy M. Chelnick: The challenges of collecting contemporary medical science and technology at the Smithsonian Institution
- James Edmonson: Collection plan for endoscopy, documenting the period 1996-2011
- John Durant: Preserving the material culture of contemporary life science and technology
- Stella Mason: Medical museums, contemporary medicine and the casual visitor
- Alex Tyrell: New voices: what can co-curation bring to a contemporary medical gallery?
- Jan Eric Olsén: The portable clinic: healthcare gadgets for home use
- Yin Chung Au: Seeing is communicating: possible roles of Med-Art in communicating contemporary scientific process with the general public in digital age
- Nina Czegledy: At the intersection of art and medicine
- Lucy Lyons: What am I looking at?
- Henrik Treimo: Invisible World
- Victoria Höög: The optic invasion of the body. Epistemic approaches to current biomedical images
- Ken Arnold and Thomas Söderqvist: A manifesto for making science, technology and medicine museums
SATURDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER
- Morten Skydsgaard: The exhibition ‘The Incomplete Child’: boundaries of the body and the guest
- Sniff Andersen Nexø: Showing fetal realities: visibility, display, performance
- Suzanne Anker: Inside/Out: fetal specimens through a 21st Century lens
- Yves Thomas and Catherine Cuenca: Multimedia contributions to contemporary medical museology
- Nurin Veis: How do we tell the story of the cochlear implant?
- Jim Garretts: Bringing William Astbury into the 21st Century: the Thackray Museum and the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology in partnership
- Adam Bencard: Being molecular
- Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein: Visual things and universal meanings: aids posters, the politics of globalization, and history
- Karen Ingham: Medicine, materiality and museology: collaborations between art, medicine and the museum space
- Silvia Casini: Curating the biomedical archive-fever
- Thomas Schnalke: Dissolving matters. The end of all medical museums’ games?
I’ll be back with more info soonish. See also the conference website.
