onsdag den 19. september 2012
Er filosofi kulturbundet?
onsdag den 12. september 2012
What is Interdisciplinary Success?
What is Interdisciplinary Success?
4-5 OCTOBER 2012, Lund University, Sweden
http://tinyurl.com/cet79nr
Program
Thursday, OCT 4
09:00 Coffee
09:30 10:30 Uskali Mäki (Helsinki): tba
10:30 11:30 Annika Wallin (Lund): Evidence or not evidence?
11:30 12:30 John Jackson (Boulder): Unity of science as a barrier to interdisciplinary success: The case of evolutionary psychology
12:30 13:45 Lunch
13:45 14:45 Rani Lill Anjum (Bergen): Causation in Science - An interdisciplinary research project
14:45 15:45 Susann Wagenknecht (Aarhus): Managing trust - Making interdisciplinary research teams work
15:45 16:15 Coffee
16:15 17:15 Lena Wahlberg (Lund): Uncritical trust- the impact of medical expertise on court decisions on compulsory mental care
19:30 Dinner
Friday, OCT 5
09:30 Coffee
10:00 11:00 Matti Sintonen (Helsinki): Radical interdisciplinarity - some successes, some failures
11:00 12:00 Tilmann Massey (Munich): Best practice of interdisciplinary research: lessons from the history of biology
12:00 13:30 Lunch
13:30 14:30 Hanne Andersen (Aarhus): What kind of expertise is required for interdisciplinary success?
14:30 15:30 Till Grüne-Yanoff (Stockholm): Investigating model exchanges for their interdisciplinary success
15:30 16:15 Coffee
16:15 17:15 Florin Popa (Leuven): Contextualized knowledge and interdisciplinarity. The case of social-ecological systems
17:15 18:15 Petri Ylikoski (Helsinki): Adventures in Neuroland: economics and sociology compared
There is no fee. Please register via e-mail to
frank.zenker [at] fil.lu.se
on or before SEPT 27, indicating if you intend to join lunches and the dinner.
Frank Zenker
Department of Philosophy & Cognitive Science
Kungshuset, Lundagård, 222 22 Lund, Sweden
http://www.fil.lu.se/person/
tirsdag den 11. september 2012
Helsekroppens sociale teori
Call for abstracts - Conference on Body, Public Health & Social Theory
Conference on Body, Public Health & Social Theory
Important dates, length of abstract/paper, price, email, etc
Kontaktperson: Conference contact, bodysocial.ioa@cbs.dk
mandag den 10. september 2012
Ny dagsorden for menneskevidenskaberne
See conference programme here:
http://www.mapping-humanities.dk/news/conference-1/conference-1-announcement.html
Keynote speakers include Nico Stehr, Karl Mannheim Professor for Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University, and Nikolas Rose, Head of Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, King's College, London.
Registeration: Participation is free of charge, but registration is required at www.conferencemanager.dk/humanities. Deadline for registration is November 7, 2012.
Conference 1:
MAPPING THE HUMANITIES
November 21-22, 2012
Goal of the conference
Reserve the Date
The Human Turn examines the new call for knowledge of the human in the natural sciences, the life sciences and the social sciences. The common drive is the realisation that knowledge of the human plays a decisive factor in handling societal challenges and the advancement of science. Focusing on a number of exemplary interdisciplinary fields such as political science, welfare science, health science, environmental science and the science of management, The Human Turn investigates the consequences and potentials of this new human turn.
Humanomics is an interdisciplinary research programme that studies the historical, conceptual and institutional dynamics of the humanities. The programme seeks to provide insight into which humanist theories, methods and concepts that are operative in today’s science system, and in doing so seeks to develop an empirically-based philosophy of the humanities. The programme consists of a consortia comprising Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University and is led by Frederik Stjernfelt and David Budtz Pedersen.
David Budtz Pedersen, Co-Director, Humanomics, Aarhus University (davidp@hum.ku.dk)
Ditte Vilstrup Holm, Project Manager, The Human Turn, Copenhagen Business School (dvh.lpf@cbs.dk).
Please circulate this announcement in order to reach all prospective participants of a wide range of disciplines and fields of specialisation.
Kind regards
Humanomics Research ProgrammeAarhus University
8000 Aarhus CPhone: +45 35 32 88 95
Mobile: +45 30 29 29 74
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tirsdag den 15. maj 2012
Brudflader omkring neuroscience
MILESTONES
A GNOSIS CONFERENCE
Forskningscenter GNOSIS
Tuborgvej 164, København
Institut for Uddannelse og Pædagogik
Aarhus Universitet
A GNOSIS CONFERENCE
Forskningscenter GNOSIS
Tuborgvej 164, København
Institut for Uddannelse og Pædagogik
Aarhus Universitet
Topics of the afternoon session
Our time possesses and displays great expectations, not only to the neurosciences and the study of the brain, but also to genetics, cognitive sciences and recovery practices. We seem to hunt true knowledge of man. The mutual topic of the triadic afternoon mini-conference will be how to understand a dominant tendency of our time: man becomes depicted and deciphered between a ‘neurobiologization’ of the humanities and the social sciences and a ‘sociologization’ of the neurosciences. Our primary interest is devoted to knowledge-political perspectives of this ongoing, inevitable, and often productive clash.
We invite you to shed light on this zone of indiscernibility from your specific professional and scientific background. We look forward to listening to thoughts and interpretations, ’springing’ at least from philosophy, epistemology, biology, neuroscience, history of ideas, sociology, recovery practices, motivational psychology and bio-semiotics.
Program:
Formiddagen - Lok. D174 - tilmelding
09.00 – 09.20: Lars-Henrik Schmidt Det Épistémologiske grundlag for GNOSIS – Mind and Thinking
09.20 – 09.40: Theresa S.S. Schilhab, Embodiment og ‘Derived embodiment’
09.40 – 10.00: Steen Nepper Larsen, Kampen om den plastiske hjerne
10.00 – 11.20: John Michael, Embodied Interaction og højere kognition: en hierarkisk model
10.20– 10.40: Pause med kaffe og the
10.40 – 11.00: Lars Laustsen, Den animalske magnetisme og nutiden
11.00 – 11.20: Oliver Kauffmann, Bevidsthed som lyskaster: Om dydernes dannelse
11.20 – 11.40: Nicolas Schunck, Mental sundhed
11.40 – 12.00: Tobias Hiort-Lorenzen, Om latter og leg med særligt henblik på forståelsen af mobning
Afternoon - Room D169 - Registration
13.00 – 13.15: Lars-Henrik Schmidt, Welcome
13.15 – 14.15: Lenny Moss, Detachment and Compensation: A New Metaphysics of Nature and Normativity
14.15 – 14.30: Critical comments – John Michael
14.30 – 14.45: Coffee and tea break
14.45– 15.45: Jesper Mogensen, The environmental and social organization of the brain: Wiring and rewiring the brain in injury and normality
15.45 – 16.00: Critical comments – Theresa S.S. Schilhab
16.00 – 16.15: Coffee and tea break
16.15 – 17.15: Claus Emmeche, Levels of human-mindbrain and levels of neuroscience discourse: Partial de-coupling or tight inter-level causation?
17.15 – 17.30: Critical comments – Steen Nepper Larsen
17.30 – 18.00: Discussion
mandag den 2. april 2012
En europæisk model for videnskaben i samfundet
The conference will offer high-level speakers and draw upon the participants’ ideas, opinions and suggestions in an interactive conference format. ‘Science in Dialogue will be a unique platform for European stakeholders to meet and discuss the interaction between science, innovation and society.
The aim of the conference is to provide input on aspects of a European model for Responsible Research and Innovation and future instruments for research funding. Furthermore, the conference will contribute to the basis for the successful solution of the grand challenges of our society.
lørdag den 31. marts 2012
Dansk æsteæs opviser stoflige sanse-, videns- og virkemåder
DASTS2012 - University of Copenhagen, CSS.
May 30, 2012 – May 31, 2012
Danish STS on Display: Sensing, Knowing, Intervening
In STS there is a long tradition for studying the practices and materialities by which we come to sense, know and intervene in the world. These practices and materialities are heterogeneous, entangled, multiple, and contestable and therefore continuously surprise and enrich the conversations we engage in as researchers. Furthermore, this engagement continues to be carried out in ever new contexts and ways. This year’s DASTS conference wants to highlight and display the multiple ways of sensing, knowing, and intervening, which are present in the work of Danish STS-researchers. Taking this ‘sensitivity for differences’ as our starting point we also invite reflections on and experimentation with our own epistemic practices and materialities. How do we ourselves practice, display, and materialize the sensing, knowing, and intervening of our subjects and of STS? What new epistemic practices and materialities have or may emerge from STS studies more broadly speaking?
DASTS and the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies – a centre where the sensing, knowing, and intervening of medicine is studied and put on display (also literally!) – therefore invite established as well as young scholars to present and discuss their work, finished or in progress. The main purpose of the DASTS conference is to fertilize STS research broadly and the committee therefore welcomes entries from all areas of science and technology studies. Especially junior researchers wanting to share and discuss their work before participating in the 4S/EASTS conference later this year are invited to present their work.
Important dates:
9 April: deadline for paper abstracts
20 April: notification of acceptance
7 May: final program
torsdag den 24. november 2011
4S og EASST konference på CBS okt.2012 om videnskabs- og teknologistudier
Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
2012: Copenhagen
October 17-20, 2012, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Held jointly with European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
(View the 2011, Cleveland meeting page).
“Design and displacement – social studies of science and technology”
For the Joint 4S/EASST conference 2012 we broadly invite papers that address the dynamics and interrelationships between science, technology and society. Papers which address the meeting’s theme ‘Design and Displacement’ are especially relevant, but papers on any topic in STS are welcome.
‘Design’ has become a key concept across a multitude of disciplinary domains and social spheres. In addition to its traditional ‘aesthetic’ associations, it is now a key term in multiple scientific domains and in diverse technological practices. One can even think of societies and social arrangements being ‘designed’. In science and technology, ‘design’ implies the re-arrangement of materials and ideas for innovative purposes. When newly designed scientific and technical objects enter the world, however, their initial purposes are often displaced.
For decades, STS researchers have been following the practical and political dimensions of science and technology. By focusing on concepts and practices of scientific and technological design at their sites of construction and on their multiple displacements the 2012 conference continues this tradition. By bringing together ‘design’ and ‘displacement’ we want to highlight how scientific and technological design engages with existing socio-technical arrangements in both planned and unplanned ways, facilitating both collaborations and contestations, and generating both order and disorder.
The conference encourages analytic, critical and practical engagement with design and displacement in several ways. First, it points to the need for investigating the relation between design intentions and their displacements, for example as catalysts for change and conflict. It also highlights the importance of investigating design controversies. It locates design practices in broader political contexts, and focuses attention on how design facilitates or hinders social inclusion, locally and globally. The theme ‘Design and Displacement’ invites careful analyses of the way design practices take part in shaping worlds. However, ‘Design and Displacement’ also raises questions around STS as design work and practice-based interventions. In this sense design becomes simultaneously topic and outcome, a situation that raises new questions concerning the role of STS research.
New! Call for Open Panels
As a new initiative, proposals for ‘open panels’ at the 2012 Joint Conference 4S/EASST can now be submitted. The selected open panels will then be included as part of the formal call for papers.
A ‘panel’ is a collection of papers that address a shared theme. Panels are normally submitted at the call for papers as a ‘closed package’ of papers and presentations. The 2012 conference hereby calls for open panels, i.e. panels that have a theme and a responsible anchor-person(s), but which are not already filled up with papers. The purpose of calling for open panels is to stimulate the formation of new networks around topics of interest to the 4S/EASST community and may take inspiration from the conference theme “Design and Displacement”. The selected open panels will be announced as part of the ordinary call for papers to come.
Submit your name, institutional affiliation and a short (maximum 300 words) description of the open panel theme along with a title. Deadline is January 4, 2012. Submit an Open Panel Now.
Proposers of open panels must be prepared to be in contact with the scientific program committee about the final composition of their panels and they must be prepared to chair the panel.
The selected open panels will be included in the call for papers opening January 11, 2012 and thereby allow direct submission of papers to a selected panel.
Exhibitors
The 4S is the oldest and largest scholarly association devoted to studying science, technology and society. The annual meeting attracts over 1,000 scholars. Many attendees look forward to the book exhibit for finding new books for class, for their research, and for staying current in the field. Visit the Exhibitors page for information on how to participate.http://www.4sonline.org/meeting/exhibitors
Mentorship Program
The Mentorship Program has become a popular part of the 4S conference. The goal of the program is to facilitate mentoring of individuals who are new to the conference and/or to 4S. A mentoring relationship assumes a minimum of one conversation at the 4S conference. It is hoped that mentoring relationships will also continue with at least two follow-up phone calls or emails during the following 12 months. We will match new scholars with more experienced scholars and make an effort to assign mentors outside of one's university. We hope that the mentoring project will allow new scholars to feel more at home in the STS community.
Travel Support for Students
Please consult the travel grants page for more information.
http://www.4sonline.org/meeting/travel_grants
Contact Info
For general meeting information and any questions about the program, contact the Scientific Program Chair, Signe Vikkelsø at meeting@4sonline.org.
For technical assistance with the submission or registration process, contact the 4S Webmaster.
Important Dates
- January 4, 2012: Deadline for submitting open panels
- January 11, 2012: Abstract submissions open: The deadline for abstract submission I suggest should be: March 11, 2012
- March 11, 2012: Deadline for submissions of individual papers and session proposals.
- May 1, 2012: Acceptance notification.
tirsdag den 4. oktober 2011
Teknologiforståelse i humaniora - legerum og miniværksteder
Det tredje rum er et kompetenceprojekt, som gennemføres på Arts på Aarhus Universitet i efteråret 2011.
Formålet er at åbne for at få humanister til at gå ind i 'det tredje rum', et legerum hvor teknologiforståelse og innovation går hånd i hånd. Folk fra sundhedsvidenskaberne, samfundsvidenskaberne og ikke mindst naturvidenskaberne har den fordel, at teknologiforståelse til en vis grad allerede er bygget ind i deres fagligheder - mens det i dag kun er humanister, der af egen kraft har opbygget teknologiforståelse, der kan ’lege med’. Selvom de humanister, der har bevæget sig i STS (Science and Technology feltet), har opbygget en mere funderet teknologiforståelse, bliver denne sjældent sat i spil i forhold til de humanistiske fagligheder.
I efteråret 2011 gennemføres således fire workshops og en konference for forskere og studerende. Tre workshops gennemføres på Campus Aarhus mens den sidste workshop og den afsluttende konference gennemføres på Campus Emdrup.
Teknologi vil blive bredt præsenteret af en vifte af oplægsholdere, der på forskellig vis har krydset mellem teknologi og humaniora – og alle oplæg har særligt henblik på hvordan humanister kan få noget ud af en udbygget ’technological literacy’.
Hver workshop består af en åben forelæsning for alle interesserede efterfulgt af to parallelle miniværksteder, hvor der i alt er 30 pladser pr. gang. Miniværkstederne er både være en introduktion/inspiration til hvad forskellige teknologier kan i koblingen med humanistiske forskning og en mulighed for at få konkrete svar på konkrete udfordringer, som de enkelte forskere og studerende står med. Tilmelding til workshops og foregår efter først til mølle princippet. Til hvert workshop følger forskellige bøger, som udleveres gratis til deltagerne, og der er gratis frokost.
Den afsluttende konference finder sted på DPU, AU, Tuborgvej 164, 2400 København. Den er for alle, der har deltaget i de tre workshops og desuden åben alle andre interesserede.
Forløb
Workshops
Det Tredje Rum kører af stablen oktober-december 2011. Der er et begrænset antal pladser og tilmelding er derfor obligatorisk. Tilmeldinger følger ’først til mølle’-princippet. Hvert arrangement består af en åben forelæsning for alle interesserede og en efterfølgende workshop for et begrænset antal deltagere. Tilmelding til workshops foregår efter først til mølle princippet.
Tilmelding til de enkelte workshops og den afsluttede konference, kan ske via links i boksen til højre på denne side.
De tre workshops i Campus Aarhus besøges af forskere fra Campus Emdrup i København og omvendt vil workshoppen på Campus Emdrup i København være domineret af forskere fra Campus Aarhus. På den afsluttende konference i København deltager forskere fra både Campus Aarhus og Campus Emdrup.
Alle deltagerne i miniværkstederne vil gratis modtage en bog, knyttet til workshoppens forskellige overordnede tematikker.
Program
Hver workshop følger samme program:
9.00-9.30:
kaffe og croissant
9.30-10.30:
Åben forelæsning for alle interesserede ved forskere med forskellige perspektiver på teknologiforståelse
10.40-13.00:
2 parallelle miniværksteder med plads til 30 deltagere med ’teknologi-undervisere’, der præsenterer teknologier med relevans for humanistisk forskning fx videobriller, mindmap-programmer, weblogs i undervisningen, videostreaming. Det er være to forskellige ’emner’ pr. gang. Seminarerne er en introduktion/inspiration til hvad forskellige teknologier kan i koblingen med humanistiske forskning og en mulighed for at deltagerne kan få konkrete svar på de udfordringer, som de enkelte forskere/undervisere står med.
13.00
Fælles opsummering og en afsluttende gratis frokost
Senest 14 dage forinden kan de udvalgte deltagere indsende konkrete spørgsmål til oplægsholderne, hvis de har noget helt konkret, de gerne vil have en uddybende introduktion til. Der er dog ingen garanti for, at alle spørgsmål vil blive behandlet på seminaret.
The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
Sted: Richard Mortensen salen, Aarhus Universitet
Oplægsholdere: Professor Cathrine Hasse, Professor Hans Siggaard Jensen og Post.doc. Jamie Wallace
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Aarhus: Workshop II, 8. november
Visuel kulturpædagogik som undervisningskompetence
Sted: Richard Mortensen salen, Aarhus Universitet
Oplægsholdere: Professor Cathrine Hasse, Lektor Mie Buhl og Lektor Lisa Gjedde
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Aarhus: Workshop III, 15. november
Teknologi og forskningserfaringer
Sted: Richard Mortensen salen, Aarhus Universitet
Oplægsholdere: Professor Cathrine Hasse, Lektor Lisa Gjedde og Post.doc Jamie Wallace
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Emdrup, Kbh.: Workshop IV, 22. november
Teknologi og Sundhed
Sted: Auditorium D169, DPU, AU Campus Emdrup
Oplægsholdere:Professor Cathrine Hasse, Lektor Claus Bossen og Ph.d. stipendiat Kasper Schiølin
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Konference i Emdrup
Konference om teknologiforståelse i humaniora, 6. december
Sted: Festsalen, Emdrupvej, Campus København, Aarhus Universitet
Tid: 11-14.30
Oplægsholdere: Professor Cathrine Hasse, professor Hans Siggaard, professor Don Ihde, John R. Dakers, Lektor Finn Olesen, professor Helle Mathiasen og professor Jacob Wamberg
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Workshop 1: Overvågningsteknologi og Overvågningskultur
(I forbindelse med konferencen 6. december)
Tid: 14.30-16.00
Oplægsholdere Lektor Peter Lauritsen og Ph.d. stipendiat Jørgen Tietze
Miniværksteder: Anders Albrechtslund, "Lokationsbaseret selv-overvågning" og Ask Risom Bøge "Biometrisk overvågning". Læs mere her
Kun 30 pladser og derfor separat tilmelding
Tilmeld dig workshoppen på konferencen her
Workshop 2: Personlige læringsmiljøer
(I forbindelse med konferencen 6. december)
Tid: 14.30-16.00
Oplægsholdere: Lektor Christian Dalsgaard og Christian Winther Bech, Center for Undervisningsudvikling og Digitale Medier
Kun 30 pladser og derfor separat tilmelding
Tilmeld dig workshoppen på konferencen her
mandag den 29. august 2011
Den cybersemiotiske stjerne fylder rundt
Deadline for registration is 12 September 2011.
Participation is free of charge. Tea/coffee is provided and lunch can be purchased in the cafeteria.
Further information: Please contact Søren Brier
Søren Brier is Professor MSO of the semiotics of information, cognition and communication in the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies at CBS. His primary research fields include transdisciplinary philosophy and theory of science, in the area of information, computation, cognition and communication. He works primarily with system and information science, cybernetics and semiotics. He has contributed to the development of bio-semiotics and the Foundation of Information Science group and has created the field of Cybersemiotics, which integrates Peircean semiotics, system theory, autopoiesis and cybernetic information theory.
Søren Brier has published widely. Much of his work is collected in the book Cybersemiotics: Why Information is not enough, Toronto University Press 2008 and 2010. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Cybernetics & Human Knowing, A journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & Cyber-Semiotics. Søren Brier received the Warren McCulloch award from the American Society of Cybernetics in 2008.

mandag den 22. august 2011
Proaktivistisk uddannelseskonference
Der er tale om den 3. konference i rækken i SOPHIA’s projekt En flerstemmig vision for uddannelsessystemet – fra vuggestue til universitet, med pejlemærkerne 2015, 2025 og 2040.
Konferencens titel er
Tilpasning eller handling – om behovet for proaktivisme i uddannelsessystemet
De faglige foreninger i uddannelsessystemet, elev- og studenterorganisationerne og de politiske ungdomsorganisationer er hver især blevet bedt om at belyse, hvad der er galt og behovet for ændringer, og i 2 x gruppearbejde skal konferencedeltagerne sammen paneldeltagerne formulere kritikken og forslag til handlinger. På baggrund af det producerede materiale udarbejder SOPHIA efterfølgende en handleorienteret grønbog, der udsendes til alle deltagere og alle interessenter i uddannelsessystemet inkl. folketingspolitikerne.
Vi håber meget, I vil omtale i trykte medier og netmedier, men også være til stede på konferencedagen.
Venlig hilsen
Per Kjeldsen / Karen Prins
http://www.sophia-tt.org/da/TilmeldingKonference
Nationalkommiteen kalder på koldkrigsforskere
Thematic part:
Science and Politics at War: New Relations in the Post War Era
Scientists have contributed to both political power and warfare—and, in turn, have profited from them. The relationship between science and politics intensified considerably in the Cold War era. As the superpowers turned to science as a vehicle for increasing power and control in the global arena, scientists took on new roles as policy-makers and international relations experts in national administrations.
The relationship between science and politics was nurtured by the Cold War— and at the same time shaped the Cold War itself. Scientific fields profited from increased funding, but state science policies—and scientific internationalism— were also significantly affected. These changes raised new and controversial questions: To what extent should political institutions empower scientists and mandate decision-making? And to what extent should scientists give up standards of autonomous science and ambitions of a peaceful endeavour in favour of political power games? Even as the superpowers aggressively pursued closer interaction between science and politics, they put pressure on the allied states to adjust to the new demands of the Cold War science-politics-military nexus.
This conference will be dedicated to exploring aspects and examples of the science-politics relationship and investigating the role of science in national politics and international relations in the Cold War era. Invited speakers include Ronald E. Doel and Kristine C. Harper, Florida State University, Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic University, and Nikolaj Petersen, Aarhus University.
The conference will be in English. Abstracts for conference contributions should be sent to Dr. Janet Martin-Nielsen (janet@ivs.au.dk) by 7 October 2011.
onsdag den 1. december 2010
23. nordiske medisinhistoriske kongress
Key Note Speakers: John Pickstone, Ludmilla Jordanova, Nick Hopwood
Graduate students course: In connection with the congress, Ludmilla Jordanova will chair a graduate students course, limited to 15 students. Wednesday May 25th from 0900 -1300.
Submissions relating to all historical periods and a broad range of topics are welcome, as long as they offer historical perspectives on issues relating to medicine, health and healthcare. Especially encouraged are topics thematizing: * Production of knowledge within different professional groups and among patients in the history of health and medicine * Collection and use of oral sources within health- and medical history * Historical perspectives on medical imaging and the development and use of visual representations within the history of health and medicine * Neurology and brain research. (A new exhibition on this topic opens at the National Medical Museum in spring 2011 and will be presented at the seminar) * History of psychiatry * History of global connections in health and medicine
Abstracts should not exceed one page. They should contain a title and the speaker's contact information (name, affiliation, address and email address). Proposals for sessions
including three or four papers are also welcome. Papers can be in English or a Scandinavian language. Please indicate which language you will use.
Please submit all proposals for papers and sessions, and application for participation in the phd-seminar to
Abstracts must be submitted no later than 1.3.2011 .
The conference will start with lunch Wednesday May 25th, and will finish with lunch Friday May 27th. Registration fee will be NOK 2000,-. This includes seminar participation, joint lunch and dinner Wednesday and Thursday, as well as lunch on Friday. Travel and accommodation must be organized and paid for by each participant.
On behalf of the organizating committee:
Olav Hamran
The Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology, Industry and Medicine
medisin [at] tekniskmuseum.no
Anne Kveim Lie
Section for Medical Antropology and Medical History,
University of Oslo
a.h.k.lie [at] medisin.uio.no
John Pickstone founded the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester, where he is now Wellcome Research Professor. He has published widely on modern medical history, including the history of cancer, mental health and recent English Health Services. His book Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Manchester and Chicago, 2000 – and article in Isis, 2007) is an original attempt to cover the history of science, technology and medicine, emphasising different forms of practices -- a historiographical project he is extending towards communicative arts. Among his other recent publications are Madness, Medicine and Social History Essays in Honour of Roy Porter (Palgrave 2007), Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patient. A Transatlantic History of the Total Hip Replacement (with J. Anderson and F. Neary, Palgrave 2007) and The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences (vol 6 of the Cambridge History of Science, ed with Peter Bowler, 2009).
Ludmilla Jordanova is Professor in Modern History at King’s College, London. She has written widely about the cultural history of science and medicine, on gender and the family and on visual and material culture. She will be known to medical historians for important contributions such as Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries, (University of Wisconsin Press 1989), Nature Displayed: Gender, Science and Medicine 1760-1820 (Longman 1999), and Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits 1660-2000, (Reaktion Books 2000). She has also written the much used History in Practice (Arnold, 2000, 2nd edition 2006), and is currently completing a book which explores the role of visual and material culture in historical practice, entitled The Look of the Past, to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Nick Hopwood is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, where he runs a Wellcome Trust-funded programme that is reassessing the history of reproduction from antiquity to the present day. He is the author of Embryos in Wax (Whipple Museum, 2002), co-editor (with Soraya de Chadarevian) of Models (Stanford, 2004), co-author (with Tatjana Buklijas) of the online exhibition Making Visible Embryos (2008) and co-editor (with Simon Schaffer and Jim Secord) of Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century (a special double issue of History of Science, 2010). He is currently finishing a book, Pictures of Evolution and Charges of Forgery, about the most controversial images in the history of science and why they became some of the most standard.