Past events
1 October 2024, 13:00-14:00: MeST talk: Cypork Production: Examining CRISPR-Cas-mediated xenotransplantation science and life at the intersection of agriculture and biomedicine
7 May, 10:00-11:00: MeST talk: 'How bird flu became endemic: History and Anthropology of a global mobilization'
4 April 2024, 14:00-15:00: MeST seminar: 'To improve patients' quality of life.' An ethnography of nephrologists in Austria
19 March 2024, 15:00-16:30: MeST talk: Health data systems and LGBTQ+ communities in Australia
30 November 2023, 12:00-13:00: MeST talk: Entanglements in the emergence of Uterus Transplantation: Reflections on contingencies, contexts and close relations.
14 November 2023, 15:00-16:00: MeST seminar: An Absent Infrastructure: Doing Microbiology in a Collapsed Place
23 October 10:30-11:45: MeST talk by Tyler Zoanni: The Obscure Object of Population: Notes from an Aging, Shrinking Island
1 September 2023 13:15-15:00: Lecture by Professor Emeritus Thorbjörn Tännsjö: Priorities in healthcare
31 August 2023 10:15-12:00: Lecture by Michael Dall, chairman of the Danish Health Technology Council: How are health technologies put into use in the care of patients evaluated in Denmark?
31 August 2023 13:15-15:00: Lecture: Mental sundhed og COVID-19 (in Danish)
Mia Gall Grandahl, a psychiatrist in Region H and chairperson of ATLAS (Den Lægefaglige Tænketank)
May 2023 14.00-15.00, MeST Seminar with Professor Janelle Taylor
9 May 2023 16.00: Art Salon Vision: Milky Ways
10 May 2023 8.00-11.30: PhD defence: Christoffer Bjerre Haase - Datafying Diagnosis: Data Work in General Practice
10 May 2023 9.00-12.00: PhD defence: Jasmine Leigh Schipp - Perspectives of Adults with Type 1 Diabetes using Open-Source Technologies
12 May 2023 10.00-16.00: FutureFamily - BioethicsCPH workshop
24 May 2023 14.00: Ethics and Critique of Digital Health: Looking Beyond Orders of Worth
31 May 2023 10:00 - 11:00: MeST talk: Negative and Positive Affirmative Action by Andreas Bengtson
17 April 10:00-12:30, Dr Google and beyond
18 April 16:00-17:00 Book launch: Data paradoxes
24 April 11:00-12:00, Ethics in Wittgenstein’s later writings
29 September 2022 15:00-16:30, MeST seminar with Dr Hagai Boas from The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute: Where do organs come from? The political economy of organ transplantations.
29 September 2022 12.00-13.30, Brown bag seminar: Promises and paradoxes of data-driven healthcare
12 September 2022 14:00-16:00, MeST Seminar with Professor Barbara Prainsack and Professor Sandra Soo-Jin Lee
9 September 2022 10:30-12:00, MeST seminar with Professor Margaret Bearmanoral
15 June, 09:30-16:00, Bioethics workshop on parental duties and responsibilities
23 May 2022, 12:00-13:15, Talk by Professor Lesley A. Sharp Barnard College, Columbia University: Absence as Methodological Practice
25 May 2022, 10:30 am, MeST seminar with Paul Martin, Sheffield University: Making the bioeconomy possible: promissory infrastructures, the entrepreneurial state, and the scale-up of Whole Genome Sequencing in the UK
18 April 2022, 10:00-10:45 am, Annette Dufner (Bonn) on health equity and Eva Weber-Guskar (Bochum) on grief
10 April 2022, 10:00-10:45 am, MeST seminar with Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt): The Problem of Polarization
4 May 2022, 10.00-11.30 am, MeST Seminar with Geoffrey Dierckxsens, Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague): Prostheses as Narrative Technologies: Bioethical Considerations for Prosthetic Applications in Health Care
CANCELLED 9 May 2022, 10:00-11:30 am, MeST Seminar with Professor Megan Munsie, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and University of Melbourne (Australia): Trading on hope, hubris, and regulatory ambiguity: Exploring the dynamics underpinning the stem cell tourism Down Under
1 December 2021, 10.00-11.30 am, MeST Seminar with Astrid Fly Oredsson, Århus: Psychiatric Taxonomy and Epistemic Injustice: The case of borderline personality disorder, inappropriate anger and moral agency.
29 November 2021, 15:00, Book launch: Near Human. Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging, by Mette Nordahl Svendsen
26 October 2021: The ‘Reproductive Technologies and Family Ties’ workshop
1 October 2021: PhD defence: Helene Scott-Fordsmand
Encounters with the unruly: Reflections on epistemic aspects of the abject and out-of-place in medical practice
1 October: PhD defence: Ivana Pauli Bogicevic Bro
Aligning Temporalities: An Ethnographic study of navigating research and care in early phase precision oncology trials
30 September 2021: MeST seminar with Anne Kerr, University of Glasgow
23 September 2021: PhD defence - Francisca Fischer Nordfalk
Enabling national research populations: A study of the Danish newborn dried blood spot samples
10 September 2021: MeST Seminar with Beth Greenhough, University of Oxford, UK:
Meetings and minglings with microbes: Reflections on catching colds, kitchen safaris and ‘dirty’ parenting
9 September 2021: MeST seminar with Carrie Friese, London School of Economics, UK:
Working Mice: In/visibility in the Knowledge Ecologies of Translational Medicine
26 May 2021: MeSt Seminar with Costanza Porro
21 April 2021: MeST Seminar with Yulia Karpova
24 February 2021: MeST Seminar with Helene Scott-Fordsmand
1 July 2020: MeST open air talk with Ji-Young Lee: Autonomy and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
20 May 2020: MeST seminar with Vololona Rabeharisoa: Evidence-based activism: patients’ organizations’ past achievements and new challenges
2 April 2020: MeST seminar with Richard Tutton: Learning to Hope in the Anthropocene: From Health Movements to the Climate Emergency
25 Feb. 2020: MeST talk with Tom Roberts: Externalist Psychiatry and Addiction
30 Jan 2020: MeST lecture by Dr. Craig Irvine: Narrative Medicine and the Story of Ethical Care
21 Jan 2020: MeST lecture by Dr. Thomas Grote: Evidence, Uncertainty and the Integration of Machine Learning into Medicine
3 Dec 2019: MeST seminar with Joanna Latimer: Unsettling Science at the Limits of Life: postgenomic biology, interspecies entanglements and the problem of ageing
3 Dec 2019: MeST seminar with Simon Cohn: The entanglements of doing and not doing and what gets noticed in end of life care
20 Nov 2019: MeST seminar with Susi Geiger: Silicon Valley’s Knights in Shining Armour: How digital technologies came to save healthcare
5 Nov 2019: MeST seminar with Maya Sabatello: Enablers and Disablers of Inclusion in Precision Medicine Research
24 Oct 2019: MeST seminar with Barbara Prainsack: Silent rationing and new collectives: People and publics in personalised medicine
27 Sep 2019: MeST seminar with Sarah Cunningham-Burley: Participation and partnership? Experiences of engagement in precision oncology
20 May 2019: MeST seminar with Leslie Cooper: Making ethics (at) work: Understanding the practice of organ donation after circulatory death in the UK
12 Apr 2019: MeST seminar with Corinna Kruse: Packaging, Negotiating, Translating: Transforming Knowledge into Practice
26 Feb 2019: MeST seminar with Anne Hagen Berg: Reasonable Grounds? Problematization, policymaking and the delayed introduction of the MMR vaccine in Denmark, ca. 1940 to 1987
24 Jan 2019: MeST seminar with Danielle Spencer: Blade Runner, ADHD, and You: A Narrative Analysis of Lived Retrospective Diagnosis
21 Jan 2019: MeST seminar with Cory Robinson: “Dr. Google is ready to see you” Privacy dilemmas arising from co-owned personal health data