Research

A peek into the first stages of a sonic experiment.

You are a colonizer – and so am I Look around you. What did you touch before opening this blogpost? What are you touching at this very moment? Perhaps you are sitting on a chair, leaning up against a wall, touching your phone or typing on the keyboard in front of your computer. Microbes on […]

One of the driving questions for the Microbes on the Mind project (click here) is how we can represent a more-than-human body; how we can depict, write, feel, perhaps even hear and smell ourselves as partly microbial. We study how others have approached this communicative puzzle, and experiment with different methods ourselves. Since the project […]

In this paper, I engage with Donna Haraway’s PhD-thesis turned book, “Crystals Fabrics and Fields: Metaphors that shape embryos (2004)”, first submitted in 1976. I presented the paper at the British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2020, as part of the ‘Materialities’ panel.

In August 2020, I will be presenting a paper on performative experimentation and collective memory-work at the digital conference Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds. The conference is organized by The European association for the study of science and technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science […]

The lockdown seems to have only intensified our obsession with our sleep and how to sleep better – if the proliferation of sleep tracking apps is anything to go by. And while all of this might seem very modern, people have actually been worrying about how to get a good night’s sleep for a very long time.

As we approach the end of March, many countries around the world from Mongolia to Paraguay to Greenland are preparing to ‘spring forward’ and move the clocks forward an hour. Each year, Daylight Savings Time (DST) brings with it passionate debates about whether it should be scrapped or retained. And in 2019, the EU member states voted to stop the observance of DST from 2021 – making this (possibly) the last year that the seasonal time change will be observed in Denmark.

Microbes on the Mind co-organizes a panel at the international conference on Chronic Living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century*. The panel organizers are Adam Bencard and Louise Whiteley from Medical Museion and CMBR, University of Copenhagen and Andrea Butcher, Jose Cañada and Salla Sariola from University of Helsinki. The title of the […]

Råber dine tarme ’stop’ i stressede perioder? Svinger dit humør i takt med, at dine tarme laver knuder på sig selv? Bliv medforsker i dine oplevelser og mavefornemmelser, og del erfaringer og nysgerrighed med andre. Frist for at tilmelde sig forskningsprojektet er d. 20. februar 2020. Ph.d.-studerende Tine Friis rekrutterer deltagere til sin forskning på […]

An international conference on ‘Chronic living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century‘ will take place in Copenhagen 23-25 April 2020. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 November 2019. Medical Museion participates with a panel on ‘Living with microbes’. CLICK HERE FOR THE CALL Despite advances in medical treatments and technologies, many people […]

Submit your abstracts by December 17th for the annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSAEu) in Copenhagen in June 2018, with the theme of GREEN (and the un-green…): http://green-slsa2018.ku.dk/ ‘Green’ is one of the most pervasive tropes of our time, and has been applied to domains ranging from environmentalism or politics […]

The 10th conference of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference (SLSAeu) takes place at Stockholm University June 14-17. SLSAeu and its conferences are very dynamic, interdisciplinary and forward-looking meetings for scholars and artists working on the cultural and social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. The guiding theme for this years conference is ‘Control’, particularly in […]