Research

Submit your abstracts by December 17th for the annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSAEu) in Copenhagen in June 2018, with the theme of GREEN (and the un-green…): http://green-slsa2018.ku.dk/ ‘Green’ is one of the most pervasive tropes of our time, and has been applied to domains ranging from environmentalism or politics […]

The 10th conference of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference (SLSAeu) takes place at Stockholm University June 14-17. SLSAeu and its conferences are very dynamic, interdisciplinary and forward-looking meetings for scholars and artists working on the cultural and social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. The guiding theme for this years conference is ‘Control’, particularly in […]

Researchers working on Mind the Gut are leading a stream on bacteria at the 10th European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference (SLSA EU) in Stockholm next summer (June 14-17, 2016). Mind the Gut researchers Adam Bencard and Jens Hauser are organizing a stream for the SLSA conference in 2016 related to the […]

Many of the objects held by museums of science and medicine are significant because they have been used in the production of knowledge and scientific enquiry. This blog post discusses how we might display such objects in ways that draw on their potential to generate scientific knowledge as well as their cultural history and materiality. […]

As part of her Velux professorship in Copenhagen in September and October 2014, Professor Annemarie Mol will be offering a series of master classes on ‘Material semiotic explorations’ in conjunction with the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Health and Society (Center for Sundhed og Samfund – CSS). Below is information on the master classes and how […]

This week Medical Museion is the venue for an international workshop on quantitative studies of major historic epidemic diseases. The workshop is organised within the framwork of the RAPIDD program (Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Dept. Homeland Security, hosted at Fogarty NIH and Princeton University).

On May 21st, I will defend my PhD dissertation in the nice old auditorium at Medical Museion. The title of the dissertation is “Unsettling successful ageing: A history and queering of the concept of successful ageing in ageing research”, and the event lasts from 1 PM (sharp!) to 4 PM, followed by a small reception. […]

In the recent issue of Curator there is an interesting and empirically well-founded paper on visitor experience of exhibitions, entitled IPOP: A Theory of Experience Preference. It lays out a typology called IPOP of what draws people to exhibitions – Ideas, People, Objects and Physical. The authors claim that an individual’s relative attraction to the […]

In 2012, Adam Bencard and I attended the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The conference was full of energy, curiousity-driven conversation, a perhaps unsurprising amount of great vegetarian food given all the animal studies scholars, and interdisciplinary in the manner of a delicious banquet rather than a fragmented […]

On of the (many) issues when trying to think about object agency (as I’m trying to do at the moment – read more here, here and also here and here) is that it necessitates thinking about what consciousness and intentionality are and that leads down a rabbit hole of philosophical debates spanning decades, multiple traditions […]