seminars

Next Monday, 26 March, 4-6pm, I will attend the research seminar at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm to hear Marika Hedin speak about “Challenges of Exhibiting the History of Modern Science”. (Those who register at bokning@nobel.se will receive a copy of Marika’s background paper, which btw. is also written for the conference “History and the Public” at Swansea University 12-14 April.) Commentator at the […]

Today, the Department of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm had invited to a discussion seminar about Isabelle Dussauge’s final draft for her doctoral dissertation, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Technomedical Gaze in Sweden (1980-2000+). I had been asked to open the discussion with a summary of the pros and cons of the […]

Tomorrow, Tuesday 13 March, John Pickstone from CHSTM, Manchester University is giving a seminar at Medical Museion. The title is “Ways of Knowing and of Working with the Artefacts of STM” — i.e., John is going to apply some of the ideas from his book Ways of Knowing to the material artefact world of science, technology and […]

The research group “Creating Science: Crafting Stem Cells in a Moral Landskape” are inviting to a seminar + reception to launch their new book (in Danish) Håbets teknologi. Samfundsvidenskabelige perspektiver på stamcelleforskning (Technology of Hope: Social Science Perspectives on Stem Cell Research). Join them Monday 12 March, 3-5pm at Center for Sundhed og Samfund, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 5, […]

One of the central features of museums is that they are venues for the visitors’ emotional confrontation with the past. Material objects add a new affective and aesthetic dimension to the relation between spectator and ‘representations’ of the past which can be described in terms like ‘authenticity’, ‘presence’ and ‘lived experience’. Those interested in such problems of historiography and […]

Many publich health officers and historians of medicine maintain that the eradication of smallpox is one of the greatest public health achievements of the twentieth century. In this meeting series at the Wellcome Trust in London, a number of health managers and field personnel who were involved in the smallpox eradication programme of the 1970s will present their […]

A five-day residential course in “Oral History in the History of Medicine” will be given at the University of Manchester 26-30 March 2007. The course is intended for postgraduates and others who are interested in using oral history to explore the history of medicine and offers a mix of theoretical perspectives and practical sessions. As well as a […]

The Office of Exhibitions and Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences and the University of Maryland are inviting to a virtual (sic!) meeting on “Visual Culture and Bioscience”, March 5-13, 2007. This international event will create a virtual meeting space for experts from many disciplines to discuss the intersections between visual culture and […]

On Monday 29 January 2007, we (the Medical Museion research group) will present our research project on the historiography and museology of contemporary biomedicine at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm. Here’s the program: Thomas Söderqvist: Introduction: The Problem Søren Bak-Jensen: Out of Time: Collecting and Storing Kidneys for Transplantation. Hanne Jessen: What is a Laboratory Animal? A […]

The first witness seminar to be held in Denmark (at least to my knowledge!) was held last week at the Panum Institute. Nine Danish medical doctors, either retired or in the final years of their career, gathered to discuss the historical development of the therapeutic procedure that had been central to their professional activities, and […]

The reading group “Towards a New Materialism? Exploring Artifactuality and Material Culture in History of Science, Technology and Medicine” which I presented in a post on this blog in early September has met twice now; last Thursday we visited Gustav Holmberg and his acquarium-ish seminar room at the Research Policy Institute at the University of […]

Nedenfor findes planerne for Medicinsk Museions interne og eksterne tirsdagsseminarer i efteråret 2006 og foråret 2007. Se efterårets program her. Se forårets foreløbige program her. Programmet opdateres løbende. De eksterne seminarer er for alle interesserede, mens de interne er for Museions egne medarbejdere. Hvis ikke andet angives, er seminartidspunktet kl. 14-16. Bagefter mødes vi til […]