Research

On next Thursday, 15 November, museum and material culture scholar Sandra Dudley will speak about “The possibilities of things: an object-centred view and its implications for museums” at Medical Museion’s MUSE-seminar (abstract below). Sandra Dudley has a background in anthropology, she has been, among other places, at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and the Smithsonian in Washington DC, before coming […]

  What is “hacking”? A way to customize one’s surroundings by readily available means.  At a recent workshop on biohacking organized by Labitat in collaboration with Medical Museion I tried a very fine hack – a web cam customized for communicating microbiology. The hack is based on an ordinary cheap web cam. With a small screw […]

Last Friday I visited Wellcome Collection’s current exhibition Superhuman: Exploring Human Enhancement from 600 BCE to 2050. Feeling rather less than superhuman after a sweaty bike ride from Tooting, I entered the delightfully air-conditioned exhibition space and an absorbing – if at times gut-wrenching – mosaic of objects, films, and texts, providing glimpses into the […]

The registration deadline for the upcoming symposium on scientific visualization in Copenhagen, Tuesday 25 September and Wednesday 26 September 2012, is Friday 14 September. You Need To See This — Pushing the boundaries of scientific visualization should be of interest to everyone interested in how science is visualized, especially at the cellular and molecular level, in science, in […]

I’m organizing a 4 day PhD course at Medical Museion in March, as part of the Medical Science and Technology Studies Graduate Programme. The course, ‘Pushing the Boundaries of Science Communication’, is described below: Science communication always involves questions of translation and persuasion, asking how accurately technical knowledge can be communicated to non-expert audiences, and […]

Myself and Adam Bencard will be heading off to Milwaukee at the end of September for the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). The theme for this year is ‘nonhuman’, chiming with many of the projects at Medical Museion that take a humanistic and material approach to medical […]

Over the last month I’ve found myself in a strange vortex of image permission issues. So I thought I’d have a little rant, but also wanted to play around with some possible implications for debates about open access and ownership in academic publishing. The disappearing figure I have a paper close to publication that includes […]

The PhD course I’m organizing as part of the Medical Science and Technology Studies programme at the University of Copenhagen, March 4th-7th 2013, is now up in the online course catalogue: Science communication always involves questions of translation and persuasion, asking how accurately technical knowledge can be communicated to non-expert audiences, and with what effects. […]

When I receive a mail like this: I am happy to announce that the  deadline for the submission of abstracts  for the […] Symposium has been extended to July 1st. from an otherwise serious scholarly organisation, followed by The other good news is that the [organising committee] has been able to secure some funding for […]

This week on the 30th and 31st of May several of us here at the Medical Museion will be participating in the Danish Association of Science and Technology Studies Conference 2012. The theme of this year’s conference is “Danish STS on Display: Sensing, Knowing, Intervening.” The original call for submissions can be read on the […]

Anette, Louise and myself are giving papers at a shared session at the upcoming Danish Association of Science and Technology Studies (DASTS) conference (conference website and full program here), with Thomas as convener and Karin as commentator. The session is Thursday the 31st at 10.30-12.00. We are very much looking forward to it and hope […]

Today we had our weekly MUSE workshop with in-house historian of psychiatry, Jesper V. Kragh, who spoke — under the title “Changing Gender Differences: Morphine in Denmark, 1860-1960” — about the gender dimension in his current research project on the history of drug abuse in Denmark. The discussion generated a lot of discussions — and a lively Twitter-stream, including some thoughts […]