EAMHMS Conference 2010
The 15th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) will be held in Copenhagen 16 - 18 September 2010.
This year’s conference focuses on the challenge to museums posed by contemporary developments in medical science and technology.
How do museums today handle the material and visual heritage of contemporary medical and health science and technology? How do curators wield the increasing amount and kinds of intangible scientific and digital objects? Which intellectual, conceptual, and practical questions does this challenge give rise to?
We welcome submissions from a wide range of scholars and specialists with an interest in the topic.
We are especially interested in presentations that involve the use of material and visual artefacts and we therefore encourage participants to bring illustrative and evocative (tangible or non-tangible) objects for demonstration.
The conference begins Thursday 16 September at noon, and ends Saturday 18 September at 5pm.
 Call for contributions
Read the full text here
Deadline for contributions
Send 100-300 word proposals for presentations,
demonstrations, discussion panels, etc. to Thomas
Soderqvist, ths@sund.ku.dk, before 22 March.
 Preliminary program
The programme will be put together by the program
committee before 25 May 2010.
Conference fee
Before 1 June 2010: DKK 750
After 1 June 2010: DKK 950
(not later than 16 July)
See the registration form for payment details.
The conference fee covers lunches, one dinner and
coffee breaks for the whole conference.
Registration form
Download here
Return to konference2010@sund.ku.dk before 16 July.
Hotel recommendations
Participants are asked to make their own hotel
bookings. We have prebooked a number of rooms.
More information here
Travel tips and recommendations of places to visit
Forthcoming.
Program committee:
Ken Arnold, Wellcome Collection, London
Robert Bud, Science Museum, London
Judy Chelnick, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
Mieneke te Hennepe, Boerhaave Museum, Leiden
Thomas Soderqvist, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen (chair).
Local organising committee, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen:
Anni Harris, anniha@sund.ku.dk
Morten Bülow
Carsten Holt
Bente Vinge Pedersen
Thomas Söderqvist, ths@sund.ku.dk
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