Médecine, musées et communication scientifique au XIXe siècle

Medicine, Museums, and Science Communication in the Nineteenth Century
 

INCSA Satellite Conference at the Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen

20 July 2026 | Hybrid conference (in person + online)

08.30 - 08.55 Registration

09.00 - 09.20 Opening remarks

09.20 - 10.40 Session 1: Medicine, Mobility, and the Making of Knowledge Across Borders
Sorin Grigoruță (A. D. Xenopol Institute of History, Iași / New Europe College, Bucharest), “Physicians, Transfer of Knowledge and the Beginnings of the First Museum in the Romanian extra-Carpathian Space”

Alicja Urbanik-Kopeć (Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences), “Teodora Krajewska – community, care, teaching and the ‘Other’”

Lucy Hyde (University of Bristol) “The entanglement of medicine, museums, and public communication in the case of John Horwood”

10.40 - 11.00 Break

11.00 - 12.25 Session 2: Domesticating Medicine: Gender and Popular Health Cultures
Shatavisha Mustafi and Sayan Das (Nayanta University, India), “Re-visualising Bodies | Re-rooting Self: Medical Advertisements and the Imagination of the Modern Self in 19th-Century Bengal”

Carlo Bovolo (Società di Studi Valdes) “Healing Bodies, Educating Souls: the Popularization of Medicine in Italian Protestant Youth Periodicals (19th–Early 20th Century)”

Doel Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras) “Healing at Home: Vernacular Medical Print and the Circulation of Gynaecological Knowledge in Colonial Bengal”

12.25 - 13.20 Lunch break

13.20 - 14.40 Session 3: Bodies on Display: Museums, Ethics, and Spectacle
Nanna Kaalund (Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen) "From Display to Diagnosis: Elastic Bodies and the Making of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome"

Rebecka Klette (Birkbeck, University of London) “Genealogical crossroads: Family history methodologies and research ethics in the case of the murderer Philipsen”

Charlotte White (Newcastle University) “Preserve, Protect, Punish: Reevaluating Public Heath and Public History through the use of Tuberculosis Posters”

14.40 - 15.00 Break

15.00 - 15.55 Session 4: Visualising Medicine: Art, Objects, and the Communication of the Body 

Allison Morehead (Queen's University, Canada) and Phil Loring (National Medical Museum at Teknisk Museum), “Family medicine: Visualizing and materializing nineteenth-century medicine in the early work of Edvard Munch”

Jessica M. Dandona (Minneapolis College of Art and Design) “Maison Tramond’s Wax Models of the Female Body: Anatomical Venus or Memento Mori?”

16.00 - 17.00 Keynote: Katherine Ott and Lilla Vekerdy “Understanding 19th Century Embodiment Through Medical Material Culture”