science and technology studies

Medical Museion and CBMR are looking for a curious, creative Postdoc to join us to investigate the role of communicating disciplinary values and goals in interdisciplinary science. The project is part of a wider research theme investigating contemporary discourse about ‘research culture’, initiatives being undertaken to improve it, historical origins, and how creative and communication activities can help support better collaboration.

Ask a chronobiologists about the history of the discipline, and you find that specific places are central to it.

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 […]

Have an interest STS and/or digital methods? Curious as to what they are and what the fuss is all about? Want to explore Copenhagen by foot? Enjoy beer? If you answered yes to any of these, then come and take part in the digital methods ‘talk-walk’ on the 8th of March. The idea comes from […]

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. […]

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 […]

Here are excerpts from an email-discussion that Adam, Louise and I had recently on displaying material things at the nanolevel. The discussion was prompted by a search I made on the net to find interesting potential invitees for our MUSE seminar series in the autumn and I’ve put the discussion online (for reasons explained in the […]

Medical Museion has launched a new seminar series: The MUSE seminars. The idea of the seminars is to explore questions in science communication and museum practices especially where they relate to modern biomedicine. We define science communication very broadly and speakers will come from a range of backgrounds including history of science, science communication, medical […]

As I wrote the other day, Medical Museion hosts the Graduate Programme of Medical Science and Technology Studies here at the University of Copenhagen. Now we are proud to announce a graduate course titled ‘At the Margins of Life and Death’, to be held 21-23 August 2012. The aim of the course — which is organised by associate professor […]

We are proud to invite to the first seminar in our new MUSE seminar series: Roland Wittje, University of Regensburg From Material Culture to Material Heritage: History of Contemporary Science Beyond the Linguistic Turn Auditorium, Medical Museion, Bredgade 62, DK-1260 Copenhagen K Thursday 26 January, 3-4.40 pm Abstract: Getting our hands dirty in the messy […]