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Friday 17 August, Danish Television Channel 2 (DR2) program Deadline aired an eight minutes interview with sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard on occasion of the forthcoming premiere of his new sound work LABYRINTHITIS, commissioned by Medical Museion. See the interview here. Read more about the performance on Sunday 2 September in an earlier blog post here.

Our postdoc Jesper V. Kragh, who defended his PhD-thesis on the history of lobotomy in June was interviewed last Friday by the Danish TV2 East regional news station — see here for 6 minutes with Jesper in the psychiatric archives in Vordingborg (unfortunately only in Danish).

The Annual Report of Medical Museion (Årsskrift for Medicinsk Museion) has just been published and is about to be distributed. This post has been created for readers’ comments. You can choose to air your ire or stimulate our vanity receptors. (You can write in English or in any Scandinavian language.) If you are not on our snail mail distribution list (which […]

If you happen to be in Oxford on Saturday, don’t miss The Museum of the History of Science‘s celebration of the-once-in-a-century date 07-07-07, “a day of talks, activities, tours, trails, music and film” revolving around the number 7. For example a series of seven talks: “Seven Days in the Week” by Stephen Clucas, “Seven Seas” by Elizabeth Baigent, “Seven Years […]

An unease with the current scientific publishing system was addressed in two open panels at last year’s EASST conference. Now, a new journal has been launched in order to tackle some of the issues discussed at EASST 2006. The Open peer review process of the International Journal of Feminist Technoscience (IJFT) makes use of “an interactive framework to secure quality, relevance, efficiency and democracy in […]

Reminder:  Tuesday 8 May, Kyra Landzelius from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Göteborg University will give a seminar talk at Medical Museion with the title “The Genealogy of a Categorical Trickster: The Preterm Baby as Modernity’s Transcription”. Kyra Landzelius is a medical anthropologist. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and since coming to Europe she […]

The Nordic Network for Visual Social Science arranges its second conference in Stockholm October 25-27, 2007 (please note, dates have been corrected by the committee). First announcement and call for papers and presentations (abstract submission before June 15) The conference will be held during three days with a program combining Presentations by and meetings with […]

Science Museum already has two educational websites: www.ingenious.org.uk and www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk. Now (as announced last Tuesday) they are going to build a new multimedia website based on their medical history collections aimed at high school and undergrad student (and the general public, of course). The goal is to place images (supplemented by a series of interactive tools) of around 4,000 “interesting, sometimes beautiful but also […]

Next week is a busy ‘presence’ week at Medical Museion. As already announced we are arranging three public events — 1) a seminar with Paris-based author and curator Jens Hauser on Tuesday at 2pm; 2) a guest lecture with Sepp Gumbrecht, Stanford University on Wednesday at 3pm; and 3) the  workshop ‘Making Sense or Sensing the Made’ on Thursday morning. For details, […]

The Danish National Hospital (‘Rigshospitalet’), probably best known outside Denmark from Lars von Trier’s TV series The Kingdom (Riget, 1994), celebrates its 250 years anniversary this year. Among the many events is an exhibition called “Rigshospitalet før, nu – og i fremtiden” (The National Hospital in the past, today — and in the future), created by historian Rikke Vindberg. The exhibit is divided […]

Efter tirsdagens heldagsseminar på KU om Abort og fostrets etiske status blev jeg i dag interviewet til P1s Orientering om abortpolitikkens historiske baggrund (med udgangspunkt i ph.d.-afhandlingen). Meget behageligt interview af Astrid Fischer, og ift. mediestrømmen ellers luksuriøst megen tid til at fortælle sin historie til en meget bredere kreds. Kort sagt: En top god mulighed som ville være […]

The New Media department of the Science Museum started a blog called “Science Museum Dev” (short for development, I guess) last July to spread news “about some of the work we do, developing websites and interactive exhibits for one of the most famous museums in the world”. Unfortunately they haven’t updated it since November — please […]