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An International Conference organised by ERC BodyCapital &#38; the Science Museum Dana Research CentreArgumentMedical 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. &#160;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 &#8211; it intends to engage (medical) TV history with recent questions concerning the relevance of space within and beyond national borders. By 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 messagesHow 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 and discussion will focus on national, regional or even local frameworks and aims to consider the history of health-related (audio-) visuals from entangled comparative perspectives or as a history of transfers.RegistrationAttendance is open, but registration is necessary. To register or for further information: tkoenig@unistra.fr&#160; /&#160; bodycapital.unistra.fr The conference is organized by the ERC funded research group BodyCapital and by the Science Museum Dana Research Centre.DirectionThe healthy self as body capital: individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital) project is directed by Christian Bonah and Anja Lauk&#246;tter at the Universit&#233; de Strasbourg. The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union&#8217;s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Advanced Grant agreement No 694817).ProgrammeWednesday 18 March 202013:00-14:00 Registration (with tea/coffee)14:00-15:00 Tour of the Science Museum's Medicine GalleriesOPENING15:00-16:00 Christian Bonah (Universit&#233; de Strasbourg), Anja Lauk&#246;tter (Universit&#233; de Strasbourg/MPIHD-Berlin) and Tim Boon (Science Museum): Introduction&#160;Session 1. Medical television: explorations beyond the screen16:00-16:45 David Cantor (Instituto de Desarrollo Econ&#243;mico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires): Pollution and Purification: Media and the Metaphors of Cancer and the Gangster, 1930-1970&#160;16:45-17:15 Tea / coffee breakSession 2. Locating themes of medical television17:15-17:45 Lukas Herde (PhD candidate, Universit&#233; de Strasbourg): &#8220;There will be more about older lovers&#8230;&#8221; Television and the promotion of health and sexual wellbeing in later life17:45-18:15 Am&#233;lie Kratz (PhD candidate, Universit&#233; de Strasbourg): When children come into the kitchen. Children&#8217;s cooking shows in the 1950&#8217;s and the televised kitchen18:15-18:45 Stephen Gene Morris (PhD candidate, University of Kent): Televisual accounts ofmindfulness: Locating meditation as therapy19:00 evening reception and book launch, Dana Centre Research Centre FoyerThursday 19 March 2020Keynote lecture10:00-11:00 J&#233;r&#244;me Bourdon (Tel Aviv University): Liveness and the theatre of emotions: the televised body in media historySession 3. Bodies, medical spaces and television techniques11:15-12:00 Karen Lury (University of Glasgow): Locating &#8216;The Human Body&#8217; on the BBC: inside and out12:00-12:45 Laura Niebling (Regensburg University): The camera in the operating room: Early medical television as a telemedicine device in the United States, 1920s-1950s12:45-13:30 lunch breakSession 4. Health communication and its mediation13:30-14:15 Tim Snelson (University of East Anglia): Shock Treatments: televising electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) during the long-1960s14:15- 15:00 Hannah Selby (University of Brighton): Locating the treatment of mental health on British Public Service television15:00-15:45 Sandra Schn&#228;delbach (Universit&#233; de Strasbourg/MPIHD-Berlin): (Un)Healthy Tunes:Evaluations of Body, Mind and Music in Socialist Television15:45-16:15 Tea/coffee breakSession 5. Television between local and national political framings16:15-17:00 Patricia Holland (Independent researcher): The politics of medical television across the 1980s17:00-17:45 Jean-Philippe Heurtin (Universit&#233; de Strasbourg): Television staging and reception of medical scenes in the French telethon17:45- 18:30 Christian Bonah &#38; Jo&#235;l Danet (Universit&#233; de Strasbourg): On the road again. Car travel, the televisual narrative of medical practices in rural regions19:00 film screening, Dana Centre Library and Research CentreFriday 20 March 2020Keynote lecture10:00-11:00 John Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London): What Television Could and Could Not Achieve: Lessons from the Hands-on History of Television TechnologiesSession 6. Medicine at the frontier of tele-communication11:15-12:00 David Freis (University of M&#252;nster): Televising the Future: The 1970 Houston&#8211;Davos TV Broadcast and the Future of Medicine in the Space Age12:00-12:45 Sheryl Hamilton (Carlton University): When the medium really is the message: CDC-TV, health promotion and the hybrid televisual12:45-13:30 lunch breakClosing13:30-14:00 Virginia Berridge (LSHTM, London): CommentaryScientific committeeThe scientific committee includes:Christian Bonah (Universit&#233; de Strasbourg)Anja Lauk&#246;tter (Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin)Tricia Close-Koenig (Universit&#233; 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)