seminars

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 […]

If you happen to have your way through Toronto in the autumn and spring, why not visit The Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto to attend its “Biopolitics + Technoscience” meeting series. This series is an interdisciplinary exploration of how life-itself is transformed through technology, science, and governance in a transnational world.   Its […]

Museion-seminarerne har været holdt siden januar 2004. Nedenfor finder du oversigt over og materiale til afholdte interne og eksterne Museion-seminarer. Seminarer afholdt 2006-2007, se her. Seminarer afholdt december 2005-juni 2006, se her. Seminarer afholdt efterår 2005, se her; forår 2005, se her . Tidligere seminarer findes under kategorien seminarer.

The Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam-based Virtueel Platform are jointly organising a two-day event — a seminar and a workshop — on Thursday and Friday 9-10 November, on the theme of close-to-the-skin technology. See their website here.

MEDICINHISTORISK SEMINAR I LUND Fredag d. 8. december 2006 kl. 13.00-16.00 Sted: Sal F-1, Blocket, Universitetssjukhuset, Lund. Kaffe serveras.

Kidney transplantations are one of the most spectacular and controversial treatments in recent biomedicine. The history of kidney transplantations are one of the areas studies in the framework of the “Recent Danish Biomedicine”-project at Medical Museion, and in order to include not only written sources and archival material in this study, we have invited ten doctors to participate in a witness seminar on the subject.

A reading group/PhD course with the title “Towards a New Materialism? Exploring Artifactuality and Material Culture in History of Science, Technology and Medicine”, is starting next month in Copenhagen and Lund. The seminar is arranged by the History of Technology Division at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen, […]