Announcement:

2nd International Conference on Medical Imaging and Philosophy: Medical Images and Medical Narratives in Late Modern Popular Culture

(funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation)

Event Date: September 11/12, 2014

Location: Villa Eberhard, University of Ulm

Organizer: Institute of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine

Contact: Arno Görgen, 0731-500 39914, [email protected]

Today's popular culture can be considered as one of the most important cultural industries; they produce knowledge and concepts of knowledge in a variety of forms and can therefore be thought of as representative culture with fundamental social and political importance. From the 1950s, pop culture has gained strong influence on social and cultural change in manifold forms (film, comics, (computer) game, pop music, popular scientific publication. Thus, she takes constitutive influence on the design and development of individual life and knowledge worlds. Particularly, popular culture often refers to the reservoir of knowledge of medicine.

The medical philosophical, -theoretical, -historical and –practical manifestations of such image and narrative in media such as films, computer games, pulp literature or comics will be examined in more detail in the international conference „2nd International Conference on Medical Imaging and Philosophy: Medical Images and Medical Narratives in Late Modern Popular Culture“ on 11 and September 12. The conference is generously funded by the Fritz Thyssen-Foundation.

We understand the symposium as a forum in which the latest results of the trans-disciplinary research area "Visualization of medicine in popular culture" can be exchanged and discussed thoroughly. Both, established researchers as young researchers from Germany, the UK, the USA, South Africa and Romania, will present and share their results. In this way, an overview of the current research environment is to be obtained.

The meeting is open to the public, registration is requested.

Schedule:

Thursday, September 11th 2014

Panel 1: Theorizing Medical (Popular) Culture

12.00-12.10h: Welcome (Heiner Fangerau & Arno Görgen)

12.10-13.10h: Sven Stollfuß (Mannheim). Keynote: The Spectacle of Anatomy and Life

Popular Culture in/and Modern Medicine

13.10-13.50h: Miriam Cidarohu (Bucharest) Science’s discontent. When academia complains about popular culture’s spreading of scientific misconceptions

13.50-14.30h: Angela Schröder (Bochum) The anthropological claim within Medical Science and Popular Culture

14.30-15.00h: Coffee Break

Panel 2: Visualizing Medicine I

15.00-16.00h:

Bert Hansen (New York) Keynote: Science Communication in Mid-Twentieth-Century Magazine Photography and Children’s Comic Books

16.00-16.40h:

Ian Williams (Manchester) Comics and the Iconography of Illness

16.40-17.00h:

Coffee Break

Panel 3: Visualizing Medicine II

17.00-17.40h:

Anna Roethe (Berlin) Insights into Insights: Visual Narratives of Medical Imaging and Intervention Technologies and the Popular Viscourse

17.40-18.20h:

Regina Brückner, Sarah Greifenstein (Berlin) The act of creating evidence – science television imagining brainscans

18.20-19.00h:

Kirsten Ostherr (Houston) Medical Reality TV from the Cold War to the Social Web

20.30 h: Get-Together

Friday, September 12th 2014

Panel 4: Transliminary Medicine I

09.30-10.30h: Michael Hauskeller (Exeter) Keynote: A Cure for Humanity: the Transhumanisation of Culture

10.30-11.10h: German Alfonso Nunez (London) Frankenstein, Chimeras and Transhumanism: Contemporary Art and its conflicting representations of medical and scientific knowledge

11.10-11.50h: Anna Grebe, Robert Stock, Markus Spöhrer (Konstanz) Popular Narratives of the Cochlear Implant

11.50-13.00h Lunch

Panel 5: Transliminary Medicine II

13.00-13.40h: Karen Ferreira-Meiers (Johannesburg) Medical narratives in the South-African crime novel: case study of Chris Karsten’s The Skin Collector (2012) and The Skinner’s Revenge (2013)

13.40-14.20h: Michaela Koch (Oldenburg) Fact and Fiction in Representations of Medicine in Popular Intersex Novels

14.20-15.00h: Johannes Geng (Mainz) - How a Film aesthetically takes a stance for a Redefinition of the Ethical Standards in Medicine and Law – Reflections on Ich klage and You Don't Know Jack

15.00-15.20h: Coffee Break

Panel 6: Diseases in Media

15.20-16.00h: Daniela Wentz (Weimar) Serial Epidemiology

16.00-16.40h: Arno Görgen (Ulm) PTSD in Computer Games

16.40-17.30h: Final Discussion and Proceedings

17.30h: End of Conference