By Joana Formosinho On July 15th, I had the pleasure of presenting a talk entitled INHABITING THE CONCEPT OF HOLOBIONT: THINKING THROUGH VISUAL IMAGERY at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology’s first...
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Inhabiting the concept of holobiont: thinking through visual imagery
By Joana Formosinho On June 23th 2021, I (Joana Formosinho) had the pleasure of giving a talk at Aarhus University’s Center for Environmental Humanities. The talk was based on my research of how the rise to prominence of microbes within biology and biomedicine, as...
Microbiomic Dietary Orientations at the Chronic Living Conference
By Andréa Wiszmeg On March 4th – 6th 2021, the international conference Chronic Living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century took place. As with so many other events the past year and a half the conference was an online event, however, it was an...
Eating for gut health – a survey on probiotic food
By Andréa Wiszmeg Fermentation for cooking and preservation has old roots and can be found in most food cultures around the world. For a long time, people have chosen what to eat in order to maintain and strengthen a healthy gut. This seems to be a rising trend, with...
Text as technology
Text as technology for care and understanding is an upcoming PhD course, asking what ‘text’ is, and how and when ‘text’ matters in practices of education, medicine, care, hybrid art, exhibitions and research. To explore these questions and their implications, we bring...
RESEARCH INVITATION: HOW CAN WE TALK ABOUT GUT AND PSYCHE?
What happens when we talk about the connection between our gut and psyche? How might such ‘articulations’ change the ways we understand the body, self and health? How can writing down personal memories help us experiment with ‘body talk’? Sign-up here before June 2,...
Microbes – the podcast
By Cecilie Glerup and Nikoline Nygaard One of the outcomes of the Microbes on the Mind project is a podcast series about our relationship with microbes – more specifically those of them that either live in us or enter us through food. The journey we aim to take our...
We are colonizers and colonized
You are a colonizer – and so am I Look around you. What did you touch before opening this blogpost? What are you touching at this very moment? Perhaps you are sitting on a chair, leaning up against a wall, touching your phone or typing on the keyboard in front of your...
Writing from the Gut (Microbes)?
One of the driving questions for the Microbes on the Mind project (click here) is how we can represent a more-than-human body; how we can depict, write, feel, perhaps even hear and smell ourselves as partly microbial. We study how others have approached this...
We are making a podcast about microbes
The overall theme is to explore the role of microbes as an inherent part of our culture and everyday life. Through four themes: food, parenthood, wellbeing & health as well as microbes in art & fiction, we explore how we live with microbes, how we imagine them...
Micro Worlds Workshop
Micro Worlds is a speculative workshop, bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the multiple ways in which museums and their collections can function as sites to better understand our relationship with microbial worlds. What if, we want to ask,...
Participated in the research group The Body of Animals
Max Planck institute for the history of science: The Body of Animals. I Participated in the research group The Body of Animals in 2018-2019. “Animals have been central to humans in their attempts to understand their world and in revealing the secrets of nature....
Materiality Beyond Machines: Reading Early Haraway
Last week I presented the following paper at the British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2020, as part of the ‘Materialities’ panel. Materiality beyond machines:Reading early HarawayJoana Formosinho, PhD FellowMedical Museion,...
Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care Workshop
XiSan village, Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou, photo Pelin Tan, 2018 Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care is the first in an ongoing series of workshops and projects by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR) in partnership with the...
Jean Painleve: Film Screening
“Advocating the credo “science is fiction,” Painlevé managed to scandalize both the scientific and the cinematographic world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. He portrayed sea horses, vampire bats, skeleton shrimps, and fanworms...
Singers, songs and the more-than-individual holobiont
When you take an evolutionary view of Earth, an astonishing reversal takes place. Suddenly, things that you think of as real—this cat over here, my cat, whose fur I can stroke—become the abstraction, an approximation of flowing, metamorphic processes, processes that...
Tentative potential of performative experimentation: A case of collective memory-work in an exhibition space
In August 2020, I will be presenting a paper on performative experimentation and collective memory-work at the digital conference Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds. The conference is organized by The European association...
Living with Microbes: Microbes on the Mind co-organizes panel at Chronic Living conference
Microbes on the Mind co-organizes a panel at the international conference on Chronic Living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century*. The panel organizers are Adam Bencard and Louise Whiteley from Medical Museion and CMBR, University of Copenhagen and Andrea...
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Microbes in biomedical mental health discourse: Protagonists, heroes and carrier bags
I’m presenting the following paper at the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) Annual Conference 2020 in Sheffield, UK*. *Due to the outbreak of Corona virus in 2020, the conference has been canceled. A growing body of evidence...
Memory-work in Mind the Gut
Dear all, On November 21st our weekly meeting launches memory-work in/with Mind the Gut. You are going to engage with my version of what the memory-work method looks like. In some ways, we will test run the method together before I start using the method to question...
Introducing concepts of ‘our humans’
Bring your own human. This was the instruction (and name) for our workshop in September 2019. It is a simple, short and sophisticated instruction. As soon as you start thinking more about what to do, several questions quickly loom over you. Are you going to bring a...
The motivation for a microbiome-targeting diet
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Medical Museion and Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, since October 2019. The project I will be working on examines motivations to and contexts for dietary orientations of people who, for different reasons,...
Deltag i forskning: Hænger din tarm og psyke sammen
Råber dine tarme ’stop’ i stressede perioder? Svinger dit humør i takt med, at dine tarme laver knuder på sig selv? Bliv medforsker i dine oplevelser og mavefornemmelser, og del erfaringer og nysgerrighed med andre. Frist for at tilmelde sig forskningsprojektet er d....
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