Arts & Media
2024
Podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib, forthcoming.
Podcast Perspectives Sci Tech Med: The DNA Papers. Episode 14: Matthew Meselson, Franklin Stahl, and the evidence for the semiconservative replication of DNA, Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, April 2024.
Book Launch Biological Motion. A History of Life, Labyrinth Books, Princeton, April 25, 2024.
Book Launch Biological Motion. A History of Life, McNally Jackson Books, NYC, April 24, 2024.
Essay A twenty-first century medical zoo, Princeton University Press Ideas, March 26, 2024.
2023
Skin Ecologies. A transdisciplinary network examining ecologies of skins, founder, together with Lisa Haushofer (University of Amsterdam)
Berlin Research 50/Perrett Laver Mentoring Program for Female Leaders, Academic and Cross-Sectoral Careers for more Diversity in Leadership, 2023–24.
Editor of NTM, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
2019
Science Aug 23, 2019, John B. Wallingford, The 200-Year Effort to See the Embryo, Science Vol. 365, Issue 6455, pp. 758-759.
Laboratory visit, collaboration with artistic researcher Gemma Anderson (UK), Leptin Group: Cell shape and morphogenesis, European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL, Heidelberg, March 4-8.
EMBL etc. June 2019, Drawing Knowledge. A Conversation about Art-Science Collaborations and the Importance of Drawing in Biology.
Deutschlandfunk, Aus Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften, April 18, 2019, Rhythmus – Biologisch vorgegeben oder ein kulturelles Konstrukt?
2017
Visual Intelligence, Multidisciplinary Group Exhibition of 2017–2018 Radcliffe Institute Fellows, John-Kulukundis Fanily Gallery, Byerly Hall, Harvard University, September 24–October 28.
Bomb Magazine Oct 24, 2017, Productive Creativity. Exploring the Lost Connection Between Aesthetics and Science
2014
Köpfe und Ideen 2014, The Chicken Egg is a Problem! Or: How Formlessness Creates Forms. Janina Wellmann takes on the pictorial depiction of emergent life
2012
Choreography by Berlin choreographer and dancer Isabelle Schad – experience #1.
2010
In diesem Rhythmus ticken wir, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Nov 25, 2010.
2007
Exhibition Bewegtes Leben. Körpertechniken in der Frühen Neuzeit, Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.
Upcoming and Recent Talks
“Proudly Natural Skin: Skincare, Local Knowledge and New Technologies of the Self,” Embodied Histories, Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History, Potsdam, September 4–6, 2024.
“Visuelle Repräsentationen und Animationen in der Embryologie,” Dialogo Kolloquium, Universität Stuttgart, June 11, 2024.
“In the year 1675 I discover’d living creatures in rain water. Lebendigkeit und Bewegung in der Frühen Neuzeit,” Festvortrag, Jubiläum 20 Jahre Herzog-Ernst-Stipendienprogramm am Forschungscampus Gotha, Forschungszentrum Gotha, May 16, 2024.
“Visualization, Computation, and Mathematics,” Keynote, Conference “Writing the History of Computer Visualizations in the Sciences: Production, Uses, Circulations (1940–1990)”, Centre Koyré (EHESS, CNRS, MNHN), May 2–3, 2024.
“Rhythm. A Concept Bridging the Science–Humanities Divide,” Center for History of Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil, November 8–10, 2023 (cancelled).
“Biological Motion,” Cramer Series Seminar, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, May 20, 2022.
Teachings
„Kulturgeschichte der Haut,“ B.A./MA Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin, Winter 2023.
“Was ist Leben? Historische Wegmarken vom 18. Jahrhundert bis ins Zeitalter des Anthropozän,” B.A./MA Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin, Winter 2021.
“Wissenschaftliche Instrumente und materielle Kultur,” B.A./MA Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin, Spring 2017.
“Ikonographie der Lebenswissenschaften,” MA Seminar, Art History Department, Universität Hamburg, Spring 2016.
“Geschichte der Embryologie,” B.A. Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin, Winter 2015.
“Medien der Wissenschaften,” MA Seminar, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Winter 2015.
“Evelyn Fox Keller. Lektürekurs,” B.A. Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin, Spring 2015.
“Aktuelle Diskurse der Kulturwissenschaften,” MA Seminar, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Winter 2014.
“Methoden und Perspektiven der Geschichte der Lebenswissenschaften,” B.A. Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin, Winter 2014.
“Observer, dessiner, inventer sous le microscope vers 1800,” Ciéra – Séminaire des jeunes chercheurs, Moulin d’Andé, September 2012.
“Text and Image in 18th and 19th Century Biology,” MA Seminar, Tel Aviv University, Winter 2008.
“Eighteenth-Century Natural History in France and Germany,” MA Seminar, Tel Aviv University, Spring 2007.
“Bilder als Quellen der französischen Wissensgeschichte,” B.A. Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin, Spring 2004.
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