Teknologiens Janus-ansigt

Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST) in Copenhagen has the pleasure of inviting you to a workshop on security:

The Duality of Technology

Monday 22 October 2012: 13.00-16.00    
Technology is often taken to be apolitical. Three researchers have taken on the task of discussing how technology is indeed highly political: How can we understand the political nature and securityness of technology? What role does technology play in juggling and producing risks and security threats? How is the technology-security nexus involved in the production of both openness and secrecy, two apparently conflicting demands in contemporary politics?

Blandt oplægsholderne er David Koepsell, Delft University of Technology; Kathleen Vogel, Cornell University; og Nisha Shah, University of Ottawa.

Arrangementet finder i Frokoststuen (lokale 4.2.26) på Institut for Statskundskab fra kl. 13 til 16, og deltagere bedes venligst melde sig til på kkc@cast.ku.dk senest på fredag den 19. oktober.

Yderligere info kan findes i det vedhæftede program.

Bohr og det danske uran-eventyr i Grønland

The Niels Bohr Archive History of Science Seminar
Thu 8 Nov 2012, 14.15 

Aud. M, Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen

Henry Nielsen  Institute of Physics and Astronomy,  Center for Science Studies,
Aarhus University, Denmark

Too Hot to Handle:
The Controversial Hunt for Uranium  in Greenland in the Early Cold War 
Believing that uranium was a scarce resource, from 1944 until the mid-1950s the United States and England sought to gain a monopoly of uranium (and thorium) supplies through the Combined Development Trust (CDT). As neither Denmark proper nor its colony Greenland was known to possess high-grade uranium ores, the Danish government was not approached by the CDT. In the first decade after WW2 the Danish government furthermore did not support expeditions to Greenland with uranium explorations as the main activity. This situation changed only after a Danish Atomic Energy Commission (AEK), chaired by Niels Bohr, was set up in early 1955. One of AEK’s first initiatives was to support large-scale uranium expeditions to a promising area, the Ilimaussaq region in South-West Greenland. In the late 1960s, after more than a decade of uranium explorations and extraction experiments, the goal of making Denmark self-sufficient with regard to energy was still in sight but had been pushed into a distant future. For many reasons the hunt for uranium in Greenland after WW2 had been unsuccessful. Among these were low grade uranium ores, hard-to-handle uranium containing minerals, but also reasons such as Danish sovereignty concerns, techno-scientific nationalism, and devastating institutional clashes of interests. In my lecture I shall explore these problems. Finally, I shall discuss briefly why the uranium deposits in Ilimaussaq have attracted worldwide interest since the turn of the millenium.

Tænk på medicinske ting

On the 8th-9th of march 2013, Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen will host a workshop entitled 'It's Not What You Think - Communicating Medical Materialities'. 

The workshop builds from a central concern with materiality, asking what can be communicated about and through it, and will be an experimental meeting place for people with a wide range of interests in materiality, medicine and communication. The workshop is less about presenting current work in paper form; rather, participants will be asked to bring along their problems with materiality, medical objects, and their communication. Then, through object sessions, shared discussions and trips to the archives, the participants will work together to come up with partial solutions, pragmatic fixes, and novel approaches.

Invited participants confirmed so far include Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons), Ken Arnold (Wellcome Collection), Annamaria Carusi (U Copenhagen), Sarah Davies (Arizona State University), Sandra Dudley (School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester), Anthony Dunne (Royal College of Art, London, and Dunne & Raby Design Studio), Maja Horst (U Copenhagen), Jenell Johnson (U Madison-Wisconsin), Angela Last (Central Saint Martins College Of Art and Design, London), Zoe Laughlin (Institute of Making, Kings College London), Lucy Lyons (City & Guilds of London Art School), David Pantalony (Canada Science and Technology Museum, and U Ottawa), and Thomas Söderqvist (U Copenhagen).

The remaining spaces will be filled via an open call: potential participants are invited to submit up to 300 words, one page, a short audio or video piece or a small package communicating their interest in the workshop to itsnotwhatyouthink at sund.ku.dk by December 1st. Decisions will be announced after Christmas.

You can read much more about the workshop here, and find a flyer here, or email Louise Whiteley and Adam Bencard on itsnotwhatyouthink at sund.ku.dk with questions. The workshop is supported by the NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research section for Science Communication.

Medicin 2.0: Sociale medier i medicinsk forskning og praksis

Event på Panum

Medicin 2.0: Sociale medier i medicinsk forskning og praksis

Mandag, 29. oktober kl. 14-16

@ Haderup-auditoriet, bygning 20
Panum, Nørre Allé 20, København N (se kort).

 

Sociale medier har erobret samfundet. Nu er de på vej ind i medicinsk forskning og praksis. Hvad kan forskere få ud af at bruge sociale medier? Hvordan vil de nye medier forandre medicinsk videnskab og praksis? 

Der vil i Haderup-auditoriet være oplæg ved to internationale specialister i medicinsk forskningskommunikation, som også er meget aktive brugere af sociale medier:

• Dr. Richard Smith, tidligere chefredaktør for British Medical Journal (BMJ), aktiv fortaler for ”open access publishing” og meget aktiv bruger af sociale medier (www.blogs.bmj.com)
  
  
• Læge Bertalan Meskó, grundlægger af www.webicina.com og en af verdens ledende specialister inden for medicin og sociale medier.

Efter de to oplæg inviteres publikum til en diskussion med et panel, der udover talerne også består af danske specialister i medicinsk forskningskommunikation.

Mødet arrangeres af Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet og Section for Science Communication, NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research i samarbejde med Copenhagen Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences.

Dette er en åben event, som afvikles på engelsk. Tilmelding er ikke nødvendig.

Nærmere oplysninger:

Forskningsassistent Lasse Frank, lasse.frank@sund.ku.dk

Professor Thomas Söderqvist, thss@sund.ku.dk, tlf. 2875 3801