Conferences and Symposia
The Nobel Museum's Research Department organizes conferences and symposia, including a series of symposia committed to analysis and discussion of current historical and critical research on the six Nobel Prize categories (Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economy).
Past events:
Steven Chu
The U.S. Secretary of Energy, Nobel Laureate Steven Chu, held a guest lecture at the Nobel Museum on the Nobel Day 10/12
Jane Addams and the Peace Tradition
The Jane Addams Conference on Social Entrepreneurship
19-19 November 2010, Uppsala universitet
Post Congress Event held at Nobelmuseet, sunday 21 November 2010:
Professor Mary Jo Deegan, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA: "Jane addams and the American peace tradition: Emily Greene Balch, The American Friends Service Committee, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama"
Conference program: [pdf]
Museums and the Enlightenment
Friday 20 November 2009, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
"The aim of this symposium is to initiate a discussion of the scientific, philantrophic and royal collection origins of the 18th and 19th century museum foundations, and how these backgrounds have an impact on our present situation."
Conference program: [pdf]
Cultural Technologies – Technologies of Culture
Tuesday, 19 October 2009, The Nobel Museum
Wednesday, 20 October 2009, Södertörn University
Conference program: [pdf]
Reclaiming the Enlightenment
Wednesday 20 May 2009, The Nobel Museum
"The aim of this symposium is to encourage a critical discussion of the legacy of the Enlightenment from the perspectives of ethnicity, gender, religion and politics."
Conference program: [pdf]
The Scientific Mission
1 december 2008: A one-day seminar in förstakammarsalen, Riksdagen
Scientists, in the humanities as well as in the social and natural sciences, work to increase our shared knowledge and understanding of the world. It is in society’s best interest that scientists deliver knowledge and research of the highest quality which is of relevance to the citizens. But how can this be accomplished? This question is and has been of great importance to both scholars and politicians.
In the seminar “The Scientific Mission”, jointly organised by the Nobel Museum and Vetenskapsrådet, a panel of international top scholars discuss what good science is really all about. How are scientific curiosity, high quality and relevance best achieved? Is the recent top down turn in science policy really the way to get the best out of science? And if not – what message can the scientific community give on the merits of scientific freedom?
Conference program: [pdf]
Thinking and Making Connections
Monday, 10 November 2008, The Nobel Museum
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, Södertörn University
The Nobel Museum, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn Unversity & The NERU Network (Northern Europe - from Cold War Division to Restructured Europe), warmly welcomes you to an international conference:
Thinking and Making Connections: Cybernetic Heritage in the Social and Human Sciences and Beyond
Conference program: [pdf]
Science and Communication
Friday 8 February 2008, The Nobel Museum
Science communication as the co-production of sciences and their publics. A joint workshop organized by the Nobel Museum, the Section for Science and Technology Studies, Gothenburg University, the Department of History of Ideas and Theory of Science, Gothenburg University, and the Gothenburg Centre for Public Learning and Understanding of Science.
Conference program: [pdf]
Science and Democracy
Thursday February 7, The Nobel Museum
Science and democracy - an open seminar on the public communication of expert knowledge and political decision-making. Jointly organized by the Nobel Museum, the Section for Science and Technology Studies, Gothenburg University, the Department of History of Ideas and Theory of Science, Gothenburg University, and the Gothenburg Centre for Public Learning and Understanding of Science.
Conference program: [pdf]
Suffering – Conflict – Reconciliation
Monday 4 Februari 2008, The Nobel Museum
Suffering - On suffering in media, philosophy and art history
Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of Economic, Fredrik Svenaeus and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Södertörn University College, Carl-Johan Malmberg, writer.
Moderator: Anna Orrghen, Södertörn University College
Research and Museums (RAM) - an international interdisciplinary symposium
22-25 May 2007, at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm.
The symposium will address several topics connected to research and its role in the changing museum world. There is a growing interest in museums how to communicate with the publbic but what is exhibited and which stories are told? Which connections are explained? Which problems are examined? The interest in new media for communication has long been given priority instead of the question what it is that museums try to show according to its traditional role - to collect, to care for, to research and communicate. An important task is to acquire knowledge. It has to be renewed, updated, questioned and continuously discussed. This applies to collections as well as exhinitions and communication.
Leading research representatives from a number of museums and research institutes will present their views. A common motto for the symposium is our convitction that research generates exhibition which in turn generate research.
För more information, see [the conference paper], Archives of the Nobel museum no. 11.
Representing Contemporary Biomedicine in a Museum Context
Måndag 29 januari 2007, Svenska Akademiens Ljusgård, Stockholm
The Medical Museion is an integrated research, teaching and museum department at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, which focuses on the history and popular engagement with medicine. In 2005-2008, the department’s activities are centered around the project “Danish Biomedicine, 1955-2005: Integrating Medical Museology and the Historiography of Recent Biomedicine”. The aim of the project is to explore different modes of representing contemporary biomedicine in research, collections and exhibitions. In this seminar the aim of project will be presented by means of five case-studies, each of which illustrates a way of integrating research and curatorial activities.
Constructing and Deconstructing Icons of Achievement in Science and Technology
Artefacts XI meeting, Nobelmuseum 14-16 September 2006.
