Seminars and Conferences
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).
Tuesday 11 may 2010, The Nobel MuseumBruno Latour, Professor and vice-president for research at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris:
The Annual Neale Wheeler Watson Lecture: "May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics"
Abstract: “During the modernist period, human and political life was supposed to unfold under a background of nature: while the foreground had to be pacified and composed, the background was supposed to be already unified. With the invasion of ecological crisis, it seems now clear that both society and nature have to be recomposed. Hence the troubling notion of cosmopolitics understood here as the politics of producing a unified cosmos.”
For more information, see the
NWW-pagePast events:Museums and the Enlightenment [pdf]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."
Cultural Technologies – Technologies of Culture [pdf]Tuesday, 19 October 2009, The Nobel Museum
Wednesday, 20 October 2009, Södertörn University
Reclaiming the Enlightenment [pdf]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."
The Scientific Mission [pdf]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?
Thinking and Making Connections [pdf]Monday, 10 November 2008, The Nobel Museum
Tuseday, 11 Novelber 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
Science and Communication [pdf]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.
Science and Democracy [pdf]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.
Suffering – Conflict – ReconciliationMonday 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 symposium22-25 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 TechnologyArtefacts XI meeting, Nobelmuseum 14-16 September 2006.