IHMC2- Newsletter of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science, University of Valencia
The Institute for the History of Medicine and Science López Piñero (IHMC)
is now a research center of the University of Valencia. The Institute
organizes master and doctorate programs in "History of science
and scientific communication." It also develops numerous
activities (exhibitions, cinema, etc.) and research seminars. The
center is located in a restored eighteenth century palace (Palau de
Cervero) in which is the historical library with an extraordinary
collection of bibliographical resources, particularly medical books
since sixteenth-century. The center also gathers the scientific and
medical instruments collection and organizes permanent and temporary
exhibitions.
SEMINARS
The new series of seminars during the
Fall 2015 are:
Opening session: 15 October
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (University Paris
1-Pantheon-Sorbonne):
Chemistry: The Impure Science
Intellectual property in science and
technology
4 November: Dominic Berry (University of
Edinburgh)
Scientific innovation in IP: the challenges of
agroecology and synthetic biology in the UK
18 November: Stathis Arapostathis (National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Intellectual Property Rights and Industrial
Culture in Greece in the 20th century
25 November: Rafaela Domínguez (Universitat de
València)
Propietat intel·lectual i medicaments alemanys
a Espanya
2 November: Round table : Knowledge on sale?
Book presentation
20 January 2016, 18 h. "Ciència i medicina en
la València foral, Afers, vol. XXX, 82 (2015). Edited by
Carmel Ferragud (IHMC) i M. Luz López (CSIC),
Closing session
27 January 2016
Carolin Schmitz (Ingenio CSIC-UPV)
Enfermos, herbolarios y médicos de corte: la
itinerancia terapeúica en el siglo XVII
All session: Palau Cerveró, Conference room, 16
h.
NOVEMBER SERIES: The mystery of Madame Lafarge: Science, Justice
and Law
With the
collaboration of the French Institute. The conferences will take
place at the conference room of the French Institute: Moro Zeit,
6, 46001 València
3 November. 19h: The Lafarge affair.
Michel Gache, Circle Marie Capelle-Marie
Lafarge
L'affaire Lafarge, Pierre Chenal. 1938.110 min
(French)
10 November 20 h: Science, Justice and Law
Olivier Leclerc (Centre de Recherches
crÃtiques sur le Droit, University© Jean Monnet, Paris): The
Judge and the Expert: Science at the courts.
Book presentation: The truth about the Lafarge
Affair. Science, Justice and Law during the nineteenth century
(Barcelona, 2015) by José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez.
New seminars series (on (1) Identities
and (2) Women, children and health) will be organized in
2016. Details will be provided soon.
EXHIBITIONS
FALL
2015: STEVIA: The sweet panacea
This exhibition is focused on natural and artificial
sweeteners, particularly on those related to Stevia, the
group of plants whose name is based on Pere Jaume Esteve
(c.1500-1556), a professor of the University of Valencia.
Opening: 28 October 2015.
CINEMA
Thursdays, 18 h. Conference
room.
OCTOBER: Self-experiments
1 Oct: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
Rouben Mamoulian, 1931
15 Oct: Monkey Business, Howard
Hawks, 1952
22 Oct: X, Roger Corman, 1963
29 Oct: The Fly, David
Cronenberg, 1986
NOVEMBER: Sweet and Sugar
5 Nov: Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory, Mel Stuart, 1971
12 Nov: Waitress, Adrienne
Shelly, 2007
19 Nov: Chocolat, Lasse Hallstrom,
2000
26 Nov: Tiempos de azucar, Juan
Luis Iborra, 2001.
DECEMBER: Ancient Science and
Medicine
3 Dec: Agora, Alejandro Amenabar,
2009
10 Dec: Der Medicus, Philipp Stolzl,
2013
17 Dec: Giordano Bruno Giuliano
Montaldo, 1973
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The members of the IHMC are very grateful for the support received from
many researchers, departments and research institutes over the last
year. Their support have made possible the continuation of the center
and the preservation of its bibliographic heritage and instrument
collections. The center now expanding the collaborations with other
educational institutions. The new center will continue to support
innovative research, critical thinking, pedagogical innovation, as
well as the preservation and study of books, documents, and
material and visual culture related to science, technology and medicine.
Further information
Web:
http://www.uv.es/uvweb/institut-universitari-historia-medicina-ciencia-lopez-pinero/ca/institut-historia-medicina-ciencia-lopez-pinero-1285893059754.html
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Instituto-de-Historia-de-la-Medicina-y-de-la-Ciencia-López-Piñero-160896327303957/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/PalaudeCervero
Video:
http://www.uv.es/uvweb/institut-universitari-historia-medicina-ciencia-lopez-pinero/ca/videos-1285901090268/Recurs.html
