Environmental Ideas Coopted: ARARAT Exhibition, Stockholm, 1976

The social ideas of American physicians (1776–1976): studies of the humanitarian tradition in medicine

of science really about "losers" and "winners", about "credit for having rightly intuited the future"? Is it not more about ideas, their generation and procreation? And the intuitions with which historians are properly concerned are not about the future but about the ever-present regularities of nature. Fortunately several authors.(notably Brooke, Lundgren, Rocke and Schutt) deal effectively wi...

"Ararat" and collective memories of the Armenian Genocide.

Atom Egoyan’s Ararat (2002) has been misread and inappropriately critiqued as a failed cinematic representation of the Armenian genocide. The author of this article argues that the film is instead an ambitious meditation on the question of how to represent genocide in general, and the Armenian genocide specifically. He traces a number of themes in Ararat, including the political stakes involved...

Stockholm, Sweden

This fourth quarter of the year is the annual Nobel Prize season. The prize winners will be announced in the second week of October, and the prizes will be awarded on 10 December at a royal banquet in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden (except for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is handed out in Oslo, Norway). These prizes are considered the gold standard of human achievement, and engineers have lon...

Exhibition of Instruments

Exhibition of Patient