Web event
11-13 November 2020
Medical television programmes, across their history, have had specific relationships to places and spaces:
On the one level, they have represented medical and health places: consulting rooms, hospitals, the home, community spaces, public health infrastructures and the rest. As television-producers have represented these places, there has been an interaction with the developing capabilities of television technologies and grammars. Moreover, producers have borrowed their imaginaries of medical and health places from other media (film, photographs, museum displays etc.) and integrated, adjusted and reformulated them into their work. But medical television has also worked spatially in the political sense of being broadcast internationally, at the national level, and locally, interacting with differing regimes and polities. It may include regional and local broadcast as well as straddling public-private divides, including pay television, advertisement and audience measurement. At both levels, medical television has served to represent familiar and unfamiliar locations and medical modes back to patients and medical or health practitioners.
Following Broadcasting health and disease organised with Wellcome Collection in 2017 and Tele(visualing) Health organised with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2018, this third conference on medical television in the framework of the ERC funded BodyCapital project and in a joint venture with the Science Museum London intends to locate medical television more precisely – it intends to engage (medical) TV history with recent questions concerning the relevance of space within and beyond national borders.
With comparative approaches, or under consideration of (sometimes contradictory) local, national and global developments, the conference intends to address the following themes:
- Locating medical television within global, national or local markets, politics and polities.
- Locating medical television as a means of new globally influenced medical communication in the public sphere from publicizing medical breakthroughs and frontier research to disseminating public health messages
- How television has represented medical location, and how that has depended on available technology and technique.
- Locating medical television within health communication and mediation including fairs, museums and collection displays.
- Comparisons with and transitions to other medical media, including exhibitions and displays, and film.
Papers might focus on one national, regional or even local framework. Considering the history of health-related (audio-) visuals as a history of transfers or entanglements comparative perspectives are more than welcome. The organizers welcome contributions with a strong historical impetus from all social and cultural sciences.
There will be pre-circulated material to read and watch before the presentations. Please see the conference website for details.
Attendance is open, but registration is necessary. Links to register are in the programme on the conference website.
Wednesday 11 Nov 2020 - Session 1. Locating themes of medical television
TO REGISTER & TO CONNECT TO SESSION 1, CLICK HERE.
13:00-14:00 We invite participants to tour the website for updates and to view the films that will be discussed in today’s sessions at this time, or anytime over the three days of the conference. Please find links to all materials related to the presentations embedded in the programme below.
14:00-14:30 Introduction: Christian Bonah (Université de Strasbourg), Anja Laukötter (Université de Strasbourg/MPIHD-Berlin) and Tim Boon (Science Museum): Introductory presentation
14:30-15:00 David Cantor (Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires): Pollution and Purification: Media and the Metaphors of Cancer and the Gangster, 1930-1970
15:00-15:15 Short Break and Coffee Room Chat
15:15-15:45 Lukas Herde (Université de Strasbourg): “There will be more about older lovers…” Television and the promotion of health and sexual wellbeing in later life
15:45-16:15 Amélie Kratz (Université de Strasbourg): When children come into the kitchen. Children’s cooking shows in the 1950’s and the televised kitchen
16:15-16:45 Stephen Gene Morris (University of Kent): Televisual accounts of mindfulness: Locating meditation as therapy
17:00-17:30 Book launch: Christian Bonah, Anja Laukötter (eds), Body, Capital, and Screens. Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century (Amsterdam University Press, 2020)
17:30-18:30 Pub night
Thursday 12 Nov 2020 - Session 2. Bodies, medical spaces and television mediation
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13:00-14:00 We invite participants to tour the website for updates and to view the films that will be discussed in today’s sessions at this time, or anytime over the three days of the conference. Please find links to all materials related to the presentations embedded in the programme below.
14:00-14:45 Keynote: Jérôme Bourdon (Tel Aviv University): Liveness and the theatre of emotions: the televised body in media history
14:45-15:15 Laura Niebling (Regensburg University): The camera in the operating room: Early medical television as a telemedicine device in the United States, 1920s-1950s
15:15-15:30 Short Break and Coffee Room Chat
15:30-16:00 Christian Bonah & Joël Danet (Université de Strasbourg): On the road again. Car travel, the televisual narrative of medical practices in rural regions
16:00-16:30 Tim Snelson (University of East Anglia): Shock Treatments: televising electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) during the long-1960s
16:30-17:00 Hannah Selby (University of Brighton): Locating the treatment of mental health on British Public Service television
17:30-19:30 Film screening, followed by discussion: Psychiatric contention onscreen in the 1960s. In collaboration with the East Anglia Film Archive.
Friday 13 Nov 2020 - Session 3. Television between local, national and international political framings
TO REGISTER & TO CONNECT TO SESSION 3, CLICK HERE.
13:00-14:00 We invite participants to tour the website for updates and to view the films that will be discussed in today’s sessions at this time, or anytime over the three days of the conference. Please find links to all materials related to the presentations embedded in the programme below.
14:00-14:45 Keynote: John Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London): What Television Could and Could Not Achieve: Lessons from the Hands-on History of Television Technologies
- In terms of footage, please visit the Adapt TV project website where all findings and publications are accessible
- In terms of background reading:
Nick Hall, John Ellis, eds., 2020, Hands On Media History. A new methodology in the humanities and social sciences (Routledge)
14:45-15:15 Patricia Holland (Independent researcher): The politics of medical television across the 1980s (to be confirmed)
15:15-15:45 Jean-Philippe Heurtin (Université de Strasbourg): Television staging and reception of medical scenes in the French telethon (to be confirmed)
15:45-16:00 Short Break and Coffee Room Chats
16:00-16:30 Sandra Schnädelbach (Université de Strasbourg/MPIHD-Berlin): (Un)Healthy Tunes: Evaluations of Body, Mind and Music in Socialist Television
16:30-17:00 David Freis (University of Münster): Televising the Future: The 1970 Houston–Davos TV Broadcast and the Future of Medicine in the Space Age
17:00-17:30 Sheryl Hamilton (Carlton University): When the medium really is the message: CDC-TV, health promotion and the hybrid televisual
17:30-18:00 Closing remarks
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