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An article in the current (5-11 Aug) issue of the leading weekly magazine of progressive global capitalism, The Economist, asks why economists spend valuable time blogging? Because it is “a place in the intellectual influence game” as an interviewee puts it. The article concludes that blogging professors may actually help raise the economic status of […]

How far has the museum world come in thinking in terms of the ‘augmented museum’ (or ‘museum++’ to paraphrase William Mitchell’s Me++: The Cyborged Self and the Networked City, 2003)? To what extent are curators thinking about digitally augmenting the reality of material artefacts into ‘augmented artefacts’?

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The Museums and Galleries History Group is organising a meeting, “Past and present: negotiating museum and gallery history” at Newcastle University at 7-8 September. The organisers tell us that: This is a chance to review the nature and roles of museum and gallery history, looking at: trends in and uses of museum and gallery historiography […]

The art of drawing of/in science and medicine is a summer theme in 2006. Here at the Medical Museion we are opening the exhibition “Sygdommens Ansigt” (The Face of Disease) on Thursday 24 August. 23 artists are participating with drawings of disease inspired by Sontag’s idea of disease as a metaphor. Each artist fills a […]

The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, Hungary, has a new exhibition, “Resonance — Electromagnetic Bodies” curated by Nina Czegledy and Louise Provencher between 22 June and 27 August: “The exhibition explores the notions of being and desire in a society determined by our bodily immersion within an ubiquitous and omnipresent electromagnetic realm”. The […]

If you are interested in what goes on in the university museum world you may want to take a look at the University Museums and Collections (UMAC) website, edited by Cornelia Weber. It has, among other things, a very useful and up-to-date database of museums and collections around the world (including medical history museums) and […]

A series of lectures on historical and social science perspectives on genomics (“Genomics in Perspective”) were held at the NIH in May and June (lecture website here). For full videos, look here. For short abstracts to browse before watching, look here.

Together with Nete Schwennesen (Biocampus and Institute of Public Health), we (Hanne Jessen and Susanne Bauer, Medicinsk Museion) are organising a conference “Contested Categories”, 15-17 January 2007. This event is an open continuation of last year’s DK-UK network meeting , now the Postgraduate Life Sciences and Society Group, at BIOS (LSE), London and will take […]

As you may have noticed, the blog has been idle for almost two weeks. We have been traumatised by the recent flood of spam. In fact almost 200 spam comments a day have come from these beasts who want to sell their online poker games, viagra pills, ‘cheap’ mortgages, etc., which they believe we are […]

A symposium with the titillating title “Historicide and reiteration” (and the more pedestrian subtitle “Innovation in the sciences, humanities and the arts”) will be held 9-10 February, 2007 at Maastricht University (nice town, worth a visit!). The meeting promises to touch upon some rather fundamental topics for science, technology and medical history museums. The dead-line […]

I sidste nummer af Weekendavisen (nr. 18, 5. – 10. maj, Ideer, s.9) gengiver Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen og Henry Nielsen de argumenter imod en naturvidenskabelig kanon, som bla. Helge Kragh og undertegnede udviklede i et temanummer af tidskriftet BioZoom for en måned siden. Men selv om det på overfladen ser ud som om Nielsen & […]