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January 2006

Conference: Science and the public: interdisciplinary approaches, 20 May 2006

By Biomedicine in museums

Inaugural Science Communication Postgraduate Conference
Science and the Public: interdisciplinary approaches
Saturday, May 20th 2006, Imperial College, London

This day-long postgraduate conference has been organised by Imperial College and the London PUS Seminar Group to help bring together researchers from the disparate strands of academia that consider science as it exists and influences public life.

We hope to attract delegates from a wide variety of disciplines; bringing together researchers from science and technology studies, science communication, history, cultural studies, psychology, anthropology, literary criticism, education, museum studies, sociology, media studies, policy studies, geography and others.
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Konference "Representation in Art and Science", London 22 – 23 June

By Biomedicine in museums


(pic borrowed from: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~evers/think/mimesis/theory.htm)
‘Representation’ is not only a key concept in biomedicine, but also in museology and in the history of medicine. In all three realms the concept of ‘representation’ bridges the gulf between ‘pure’ science and ‘pure’ art. Scientific reports, historical narratives and exhibitions — all three transcend the neat dichotomy between culture as a mirror (of society or nature) and culture as construction (of society or nature). This conference could be an opportunity to develop further the notion of medical museology as a ‘boundary discipline ‘ between visual art, historiography and science:

Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism: Representation in Art and Science
Two-day conference in London, 22-23 June 2006
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