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EAMHMS Congress, Between medical collections and their audiences
London, September 4th – 6th 2014
Science Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Wellcome
Collection
Call for papers
The European
Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences Congress biennial meeting
will be held in London, September 4th – 6th 2014, jointly hosted
between the Science Museum, the Royal College of Surgeons (Hunterian Museum)
& the Wellcome Collection. After a thrilling conference of the European
Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) hosted by
the Charite, Berlin 2012, we would like to invite the members of the
association, as well as interested scholars and curators from the community of
medical history collections and museums to participate in the next meeting of
the organisation.
EAMHMS is an active
global network of curators, scholars & stakeholders with an interest in
medical collections. The biennial Congress is a great opportunity to present
research within a vibrant forum of debate and discussion, and promotes
international exchange and collaboration amongst medical history
museums. The Association, although nominally European, today attracts
participation from around the world and is thus the leading international body
of medical museums and collections.
The 2014 Congress will
focus on medical collections and audiences – looking at how medical heritage is
used to intrigue, problematise, teach, and stimulate interaction and reflection
about medicine of the past and of today. Who engages with our
collections and which new audiences are we innovating ways to engage with? Our
visitors are not passive spectators, but rather participants in the creating of
and telling of stories about medical heritage – so what does that mean for the
future of curating medical collections & displays?
We welcome
contributions around strands such as:
1. Retelling ‘old’
histories with new narratives – in what ways can we reinvigorate audience
engagement through re-telling established histories of medicine?
2. Medical
professionals as audience – in what ways can we connect and involve our
collections to medical students or retired clinicians and beyond?
3. Communicating
problematic medical heritage – such as medical controversies, human
remains, medical ethics.
4. Audiences and
communicating contemporary medical practise – how might we foster
contemporary collecting or engage visitors with the material culture of
contemporary biomedical practices.
5. Histories of
audiences visiting medical collections - who has historically visited
medical museums, how has this changed, what impact does this have?
6. Audiences beyond
the walls of the medical museum - approaches to engaging audiences in
virtual world or through outreach.
7. Research &
innovation with audiences - what do we understand about our visiting
audiences through audience evaluation? What new interpretative
approaches excite us?
Papers are requested
to be no more than 15 minutes in length (with an additional 15 minutes allotted
for questions). The language for abstracts, talks, and discussions will
be English. Short abstracts will be circulated to Congress participants in
advance.
As spaces for speakers
are limited, we would also like to invite contributions in the form of poster
presentations – which will be discussed in a dedicated session.
We ask you to choose a
topic from the above-mentioned issues and send your paper or poster abstract
(maximum 1000 characters) with a title, your name and brief biography, the name
of your institution (if you are attached to any) and your contact details
(preferably e-mail address) to Katie Maggs, Curator of Clinical & Research
Medicine at the Science Museum, London: katie.maggs@sciencemuseum.ac.uk.
Deadline for
submission: 20th January 2014.
A programme committee
will select abstracts for an inspiring programme. Speakers and
poster presenters will receive confirmation by mid-March. If your
contribution is chosen, you will be asked to send in an extended abstract (2 to
5 pages) April 2014.
EAMHMS shares costs
across the congress, so unfortunately speakers do not go free. The
conference fee is envisaged at about £200, but will be confirmed shortly. We
look to minimise costs wherever possible.
There may be a reduced
fee for a small number of student contributors.
General enrolment for this conference will open in April 2014.
Katie Maggs
Curator of Clinical & Research Medicine
Science Museum
Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London SW7 2DD
Tel: 0207 9424143
Email: katie.maggs@nmsi.ac.uk