[Commlist] CfP - Television and Medicine/Health - London 2020


CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE 1 DECEMBER 2019
ERC The Healthy Self as Body Capital & Science Museum International 
Conference

Locating Medical Television. The Televisual Spaces of Medicine and 
Health in the 20th Century
18-20 March 2020, Science Museum Dana Research Centre, London, UK




Medical television programmes, across their history, have had specific 
relationships to places and spaces: 

On the one level, they have represented medical and health places: 
consulting rooms, hospitals, the home, community spaces, public health 
infrastructures and the rest. As television-producers have represented 
these places, there has been an interaction with the developing 
capabilities of television technologies and grammars. Moreover, 
producers have borrowed their imaginaries of medical and health places 
from other media (film, photographs, museum displays etc.) and 
integrated, adjusted and reformulated them into their work. But medical 
television has also worked spatially in the political sense of being 
broadcast internationally, at the national level, and locally, 
interacting with differing regimes and polities. It may include regional 
and local broadcast as well as straddling public-private divides, 
including pay television, advertisement and audience measurement. At 
both levels, medical television has served to represent familiar and 
unfamiliar locations and medical modes back to patients and medical or 
health practitioners.


Following Broadcasting health and disease organised with Wellcome 
Collection in 2017 and Tele(visualing) Health organised with London 
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2018, this third conference 
on medical television in the framework of the ERC funded BodyCapital 
project and in a joint venture with the Science Museum London intends to 
locate medical television more precisely – it intends to engage 
(medical) TV history with recent questions concerning the relevance of 
space within and beyond national borders. 

With comparative approaches, or under consideration of (sometimes 
contradictory) local, national and global developments, the conference 
intends to address the following themes:
*      Locating medical television within global, national or local 
markets, politics and polities.  *      Locating medical television as a 
means of new globally influenced medical communication in the public 
sphere from publicizing medical breakthroughs and frontier research to 
disseminating public health messages
*      How television has represented medical location, and how that has 
depended on available technology and technique.
*      Locating medical television within health communication and 
mediation including fairs, museums and collection displays.
*      Comparisons with and transitions to other medical media, 
including exhibitions and displays, and film. Papers might focus on one 
national, regional or even local framework. Considering the history of 
health-related (audio-) visuals as a history of transfers or 
entanglements comparative perspectives are more than welcome. The 
organizers welcome contributions with a strong historical impetus from 
all social and cultural sciences.

The conference will be held on 18- 20 March 2020 at the Science Museum 
London, Dana Research Centre.
Please send proposals (a short CV and an abstract or outline of 500 
words) by 1 December 2019 to (tkoenig /at/ unistra.fr)

Limited travel grants are available, upon application and in accordance 
to need.

The conference is organized by the ERC funded research group 
BodyCapital and by the Science Museum London.

The healthy self as body capital: individuals, market-based societies 
and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital) 
project is directed by Christian Bonah at the Université de Strasbourg 
and Anja Laukötter at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 
Berlin. The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) 
under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation 
programme (Advanced Grant agreement No 694817).

The scientific committee includes: Christian Bonah (Université de 
Strasbourg)
Anja Laukötter (Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin) 
Tricia Close-Koenig (Université de Strasbourg)
Tim Boon (Science Museum, London)
Angela Saward (Wellcome Collection, London) Alex Mold (London School of 
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Virginia Berridge (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Project website: https://bodycapital.unistra.fr
Call for papers: 
http://bodycapital.unistra.fr/fileadmin/uploads/websites/body-capital/Actualites/CfP_Locating_Medical_Television_2020.pdf

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