Biomedicine on Display

In June (8th-11th), an international Conference on the Inclusive Museum will take place in the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, the Netherlands. The conference aims at bringing academics, museum curators and administrators, and policy makers together to engage in discussions on the future museums and their role. As it says in the call for paper:

“At this time of fundamental social change, this Conference will address the question of the role of the museum, both as a creature of that change, and also as an agent of change. The International Conference on the Inclusive Museum is a place where museum practioners, researchers, thinkers and teachers can engage in discussion on the historic character and future shape of the museum. The key question of the Conference is ‘How can the institution of the museum become more inclusive?’ “

Seems very relevant to visit Leiden in June to attend streams such as ‘Culture and Intangible Heritage’, ‘Technologies’, or ‘Visitors’.

Unfortunately most staff here is already occupied by the SLSA conference in Berlin (Figurations of Knowledge), and a symposium in the Postgraduate Network on Life Sciences and Society in Helsinki (Standardising Objects, Stabilising Categories). So we’ll miss this opportunity, including the chance to learn more about the taken-for-granted in the key question of the Inclusive Museum conference. What does it mean to include in this case; who or what should be included; how; and included in what? 

Although inclusion - as a parallel to public engagement? - seems a buzz word these days, there will most likely be divided opinions on these issues also in Leiden. Wonder if anyone would dare ask the impossible question: Should museums necessarily be inclusive? Why ((not))?

I’m planning to join this workshop with professor Lisa Cartwright, San Diego,
at University of Linköping, Sweden, 21’st of November 2007.

Hope to bring home inspiration for the ‘visualisation’ string of the Biomedicine on Display exhibition and book project, particularly regarding visualisations of foetal/embryonic material.

Announcement and programme says:

Medical practices are in various ways based on visual technologies. This opens up questions such as:
How does learning processes take place when medical staff learns how to use various visualization technologies? What impact does visualizations have for understanding the body? And are there emancipatory potentials in medical visualizations, seen from the perspective of the patient?

At the workshop: Visualizations: Making the body visible in gynaecological practices, on the 21’st of November, these and more questions will be addressed and discussed. Continue Reading »

Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge, Södertörn University College, Sweden, invites you to the symposium

“Medical technologies and the life world: cultural and ethical perspectives”

At Södertörn University College, Room MB505, 15-16 of November 2007.

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Lynn Morgan er professor ved Five College Program in Culture, Health and Science, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA. Hendes forskning inkluderer social studies of science, antropologiske studier i livets begyndelser og afslutninger, og udviklingens politiske økonomi (se også http://www.phdpubhealth.dk/Seminarserier/stf06/).

Lynn besøgte Museion i efteråret 2006 med oplægget ”Embryo in/formation: the construction of embryo subjectivity in mid-20th century America.” Abstract her. Nu er hun tilbage og holder oplæg ved et sundhedstjenesteforskningsseminar, d. 30. august kl. 15.15-17.00, Center for Sygdom og Samfund, KU, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, lokale 5.0.28.

Lynn er også gæstetaler ved festseminar i anledning af prof. Lene Kochs 60 års dag, med titlen Reassessing Sexy Issues: The Making of Embryos and Other Hybrids. Øvrige gæstetaler er Professor Nikolas Rose, UK; og Lecturer Nik Brown, UK. Festseminaret finder sted d. 31. august 2007 kl. 15 i lokale 1.1.18, ligeledes på Center for Sundhed og Samfund.

Reminder: 

Tuesday 8 May, Kyra Landzelius from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Göteborg University will give a seminar talk at Medical Museion with the title “The Genealogy of a Categorical Trickster: The Preterm Baby as Modernity’s Transcription”.

Kyra Landzelius is a medical anthropologist. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and since coming to Europe she has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and a Lise Meitner fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Science, Technology and Society, Graz. She is currently working on a book provisionally entitled “Via Prosthetic Worlds: The Multiple Inventions and Technological Uncanny of the Preterm Baby“.

Time & place: 8. May 2.00-4.00 pm. Fredericiagade 18, 1310 K.
Everybody is welcome. For further information, please contact Sniff Nexø at s.nexoe@mm.ku.dk.

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The Nordic Network for Visual Social Science arranges its second conference in Stockholm October 25-27, 2007 (please note, dates have been corrected by the committee).

First announcement and call for papers and presentations (abstract submission before June 15)

The conference will be held during three days with a program combining

• Presentations by and meetings with Nordic and international scholars
• Workshops on subjects and questions central to visual studies
• Seminars where doctoral students and established scholars present visual research

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Efter tirsdagens heldagsseminar på KU om Abort og fostrets etiske status blev jeg i dag interviewet til P1s Orientering om abortpolitikkens historiske baggrund (med udgangspunkt i ph.d.-afhandlingen). Meget behageligt interview af Astrid Fischer, og ift. mediestrømmen ellers luksuriøst megen tid til at fortælle sin historie til en meget bredere kreds. Kort sagt: En top god mulighed som ville være relevant for de fleste projekter her.

Indlægget kan høres på dr.dk her.

The next research seminar at Medical Museion takes place Tuesday 11 April, 2-4pm, when Solveig Jülich presents her research project “Scientific research, photojournalism or special effects? Lennart Nilsson’s visual hybrid practices”.

Internationally, Lennart Nilsson is best known for his images of foetuses that were first published in Life magazine in the 1960s and have since then appeared in numerous popular science books, illustrated magazines etc. In her present work, Jülich investigates the role of visualization techniques and media technologies in the work of Nilsson, and also how and with what effects his scientific images move and circulate between different social and public arenas.

Read Solveig Jülichs abstract here.

Solveig Jülich is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Literature and History of Ideas, University of Stockholm. She received a Ph.D. in Technology and Social Change from Linköping University in 2002 based on the dissertation ”Skuggor av sanning: Tidig svensk radiologi och visuell kultur” (Shadows of truth: Early Swedish radiology and visual culture). She has published articles on early scientific and medical photography. Read more about her here.

Place: Medical Museion meeting room, Fredericiagade 18. For inquiries, contact Sniff Nexø (s.nexoe@mm.ku.dk)

Det kan have voldsomme og uforudsete konsekvenser i vores liv, når en ny teknologi afløser den gamle, velkendte. Ny middelalderhistorisk dokumentar afslører tilsyneladende ur-menneskelige (kropsliggjorte?) reaktioner…  ;-)

Se film her: ny_teknologi.wmv

DR bragte søndag d. 29. oktober en dokumentarudsendelse, der ved hjælp af skjult kamera viste, hvordan en spansk privatlæge var villig til at tilbyde en kvinde provokeret abort i 32. svangerskabsuge. Det satte ikke overraskende en debatstorm i gang. Jeg fik mulighed for at kommentere i Informations ’synspunkt’ på side 3, og mit indlæg er klippet ind nedenfor. Continue Reading »

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 uformelt ‘post-seminar’ med kaffe/the/øl/vin i køkkenet.

For spørgsmål og forslag til seminarieprogrammet, kontakt Sniff Nexø på mail s.nexoe@mm.ku.dk eller på telefon 35 32 38 13.
For tidligere seminarer, se her.

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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.

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MEDICINHISTORISK SEMINAR I LUND
Fredag d. 8. december 2006 kl. 13.00-16.00
Sted: Sal F-1, Blocket, Universitetssjukhuset, Lund.
Kaffe serveras.
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(Denne post var oprindeligt publiceret den 16. august, men er genopslået, pga den debat som har udfoldet sig i mellemtiden, se kommentarerne)

Invitation til stiftende generalforsamling i faglig forening for STS i Danmark, 16. november 2006. Tema: Bredden og synligheden i dansk STS

Science and Technology Studies er et internationalt, multidisciplinært felt, som er i rivende udvikling. Mange danske forskere og forskningsmiljøer beskæftiger sig med STS og STS-relaterede emner. Der er mange gode eksempler på formelt og uformelt samarbejde blandt danske STS-forskere, men med den støt voksende interesse og den stadig bredere anvendelse af STS i Danmark, er der basis for at etablere et nyt forum.
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Jens Lohferts forelæsning om “Litteratur og medicin” ved det eksterne Museion-seminar d. 7. februar blev optaget af StudenterTV.

Forelæsningen sendes på Kanal København mandag d. 6. marts kl. 11.30 til 12.30.