{"id":1044053,"date":"2010-10-11T10:13:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/%e2%80%98contemporary-medical-science-and-technology-as-a-challenge-to-museums%e2%80%99-15th-bi-annual-eamhms-congress-copenhagen-september-16-18\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:10:21","slug":"contemporary-medical-science-and-technology-as-a-challenge-to-museums-15th-bi-annual-eamhms-congress-copenhagen-september-16-18-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/contemporary-medical-science-and-technology-as-a-challenge-to-museums-15th-bi-annual-eamhms-congress-copenhagen-september-16-18-2.php","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Contemporary Medical Science and Technology as a Challenge to Museums\u2019, 15th Bi-Annual EAMHMS Congress, Copenhagen, September 16-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6e8d7_medicinsk-museion-1.jpg?w=410\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6e8d7_medicinsk-museion-1.jpg?w=410\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>In a few weeks--from September 16th through 18th--the 15th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences--to be hosted by the Medical Museion--will be in full effect at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museion.ku.dk\/\">Medical Museion of Copenhagen, Denmark<\/a>.<\/p><p>The topic of this year's congress--\"Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums\"--will be debated and discussed by a variety of museum practitioners and enthusiasts, from curators to museum directors to artists to bloggers such as myself. I will be presenting my paper--\"The private, curious, and niche collection: what they can teach us about exhibiting new medicine\"-- on Thursday the 16th. Other participants will include New York based artist and SVA professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geneculture.org\/\">Suzanne Anker<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcomecollection.org\/\">Wellcome Collection's<\/a> Ken Arnold, and friend-of-Morbid-Anatomy <a href=\"http:\/\/morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/welcome-jim-edmonson-and-dittrick.html\">James Edmonson of the Dittrick Museum<\/a>.<\/p><p>This is sure to be a thought provoking and fascinating congress. Hope very much to see you there!<\/p><p>Full schedule follows:<\/p><blockquote><p>THURSDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER<\/p><ul><li>Thomas S&ouml;derqvist: Why this conference now?<\/li><li>Kim Sawchuk: Biotourism and biomediation<\/li><li>Kerstin Hulter &Aring;sberg: Uppsala Biomedical Center: A mirror of modern medical history &ndash; how can it be displayed?<\/li><li>Wendy Atkinson and Ren&eacute; Mornex: A major health museum in Lyon<\/li><li>Robert Martensen: Integrating the physical and the virtual in exhibitions, archives, and historical research at the National Institutes of Health<\/li><li>Ramunas Kondratas: The use of new media in medical history museums<\/li><li>Danny Birchall: &lsquo;Medical London&rsquo;, Flickr, and the photography of everyday medicine<\/li><li>Joanna Ebenstein: The private, curious, and niche collection: what they can teach us about exhibiting new medicine<\/li><\/ul><p>FRIDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER<\/p><ul><li>Judy M. Chelnick: The challenges of collecting contemporary medical science and technology at the Smithsonian Institution<\/li><li>James Edmonson: Collection plan for endoscopy, documenting the period 1996-2011<\/li><li>John Durant: Preserving the material culture of contemporary life science and technology<\/li><li>Stella Mason: Medical museums, contemporary medicine and the casual visitor<\/li><li>Alex Tyrell: New voices: what can co-curation bring to a contemporary medical gallery?<\/li><li>Jan Eric Ols&eacute;n: The portable clinic: healthcare gadgets for home use<\/li><li>Yin Chung Au: Seeing is communicating: possible roles of Med-Art in communicating contemporary scientific process with the general public in digital age<\/li><li>Nina Czegledy: At the intersection of art and medicine<\/li><li>Lucy Lyons: What am I looking at?<\/li><li>Henrik Treimo: Invisible World<\/li><li>Victoria H&ouml;&ouml;g: The optic invasion of the body. Epistemic approaches to current biomedical images<\/li><li>Ken Arnold and Thomas S&ouml;derqvist: A manifesto for making science, technology and medicine museums<\/li><\/ul><p>SATURDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER<\/p><ul><li>Morten Skydsgaard: The exhibition &lsquo;The Incomplete Child&rsquo;: boundaries of the body and the guest<\/li><li>Sniff Andersen Nex&oslash;: Showing fetal realities: visibility, display, performance<\/li><li>Suzanne Anker: Inside\/Out: fetal specimens through a 21st Century lens<\/li><li>Yves Thomas and Catherine Cuenca: Multimedia contributions to contemporary medical museology<\/li><li>Nurin Veis: How do we tell the story of the cochlear implant?<\/li><li>Jim Garretts: Bringing William Astbury into the 21st Century: the Thackray Museum and the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology in partnership<\/li><li>Adam Bencard: Being molecular<\/li><li>Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein: Visual things and universal meanings: aids posters, the politics of globalization, and history<\/li><li>Karen Ingham: Medicine, materiality and museology: collaborations between art, medicine and the museum space<\/li><li>Silvia Casini: Curating the biomedical archive-fever<\/li><li>Thomas Schnalke: Dissolving matters. The end of all medical museums&rsquo; games?<\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote><p>You can find out more about the congress by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mm.ku.dk\/sker\/eamhms.aspx\">here<\/a>. You can read more about the Medical Museion via a few recent blog posts, the first being the Dittrick Museum's (<a href=\"http:\/\/dittrick.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/all-roads-lead-to-copenhagen-at-least.html\">here<\/a>) and the other being that of The Sterile Eye (<a href=\"http:\/\/sterileeye.com\/2010\/05\/10\/the-medical-museion\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p><p>Image: From <a href=\"http:\/\/sterileeye.com\/2010\/05\/10\/the-medical-museion\/\">The Sterile Eye<\/a>; Caption: Copy of &eacute;corch&eacute; statue by Theobald Stein. 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