Neale Wheeler Watson Lecture
Every spring, the Research Department invites an international scholar of excellence to give the annual Neale Wheeler Watson lecture.
2012
Oliver Sacks: "Narrative and Medicine: The Case History"
Tuesday May 22th 2012, Börssalen, 16.00-17.30
The number of seats is limited.
Medicine is both an art and science, according to Oliver Sacks, and it is concerned with the human being as a whole. And although it is crucial to examine and test one's patients using objective criteria (as far as possible), it is equally essential, especially in neurology or psychiatry, to understand the patient's own experince. In problems with the brain or mind the patient's personhood is central, and the study of disease and of identity cannot be disjoined. One may think of case history, then, as the intersection of biography and biology, an attempt to understand the broader human experience through individual experiences.
Questions: forskning@nobelmuseum.se
Booking: NWW@nobelmuseum.se
All Neale Wheeler Watson Lectures:
2011
Professor Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, samt Mellon Distinguished Scholar of the Humanities: "Precarious Life: The Obligations of Proximity"
Read/watch the lecture: [pdf] [youtube]
Hi-res poster: [pdf]
2010
Professor Bruno Latour, vice-president for research at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris: "May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics"
Read/watch the lecture: [pdf] [youtube]
Hi-res poster: [pdf]
2008
Professor Elinor Ostrom, Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington: "How Do Institutions for Collective Action Evolve?"
Read the lecture: [pdf]
Hi-res poster: |pdf]
2007
Professor Simon Schaffer, Cambridge University: "Is Seeing Believing? Why Public Experiments Often Fail and Sometimes Work"
Read the lecture: [pdf]
Hi-res poster: [jpg]
2006
Professor Ulrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilian-universitetet, München: "Understanding Real Europe: A Cosmopolitan Perspective"
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2005
Professor Rosalind Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): "Science and Technology Studies: Future Horizons"
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2004
Professor John Harley Warner, medicinhistoriker vid Yale University: "Aesthetics, Identity and the Grounding of Modern Medicine"
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