Performing Science and Medicine
Performing science and medicine is an interdisciplinary online working group
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Image: Adam Walker, a natural philosopher, performing scientific experiments. [cropped] Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1796. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.
About us
This working group brings together art practitioners, scholars in the performing arts and in the medical humanities, as well as philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science and medicine to start a cross-disciplinary discussion surrounding the following questions: How can the historical, philosophical, and social studies of science and medicine benefit from focusing on performativity and theatricality as analytic categories? How can art-based practices enhance the critical reflection on scientific and medical practices pursued by the humanities? To what extent can the critical humanities borrow concepts from the performing arts? Which further dimensions can be enriched by this interaction (e.g., pedagogy of the humanities, medical and technical education, scientific communication, etc.)?
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Working group members
Co-organizers:​
​Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Michele Luchetti
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Working group members:​
Monika Ankele, Leonie Braam, Gianna Bouchard, Maarten Derksen, Sophia Efstathiou, Giulia Frezza, Yelena Gluzman, Lara Keuck, Céline Kaiser, Sarah Klein, Anatolii Kozlov, Alex Mermikides, Helene Scott-Fordsmand, Lucie Strecker, Antonia von Schöning, and Grace Whorrall-Campbell
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