PEN Club 1931 | 20240112

The 9th Annual International Congress of the PEN Club — Poets, Essayists, Novelists — in 1931 in the townhall of Rotterdam, Holland, with a focus on the Flemish writer Felix Timmermans, Dutch writer Dirk Coster (?), Dutch poet P.C. Boutens, Dutch writer Anthonetta (Top) Naeff, and in the final scene : the English author John Galsworthy (Nobel Prize Literature 1932) talking with the Dutch journalist and writer Lord Jan Feith, and the French author, critic and literary historian Benjamin Crêmieux — secretary of the French section of the PEN Club (see below).

From its inception in 1921, PEN was intended to be a non-political organisation. However, with the rise of the Nazis in Germany, and of fascism in Spain and Italy, it became increasingly difficult for PEN to stay away from the political; and that year 1931, the PEN Committee made a public ‘Appeal to All Governments’, which protested the plight of those imprisoned for political or religious reasons.

In 1940 Benjamin Crêmieux joined the French underground and became a leader of the Maquis resistance fighters.
In April 1943, two Gestapo agents detained Crémieux in Marseilles. He was arrested, imprisoned, and deported to Nazi Germany, where, in April 1944 he was executed in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Notes

P.E.N.-club . poets, playwrights, essayists, editors, novelists

PEN International. URL https://www.pen-international.org

Honderd jaar PEN (CLUB) Nederland: een beknopte geschiedenis. Liliane Waanders | Hanta. URL
https://www.hanta.nl/hanta/2023/04/10/honderd-jaar-pen-club-nederland-een-beknopte-geschiedenis/

A Brief History of PEN International. Cathal Sheerin. URL https://www.pen100archive.org/explore-the-exhibition/pen-internationals-history/

Benjamin Crémieux. Wikipedia. URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Crémieux

Een sportieve jonkheer: Jan Feith en Den Haag. De Oud-Hagenaar- De krant voor de 50-plusser. Dinsdag 27 dec 2016. URL https://www.desportwereld.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016-12-27_Een-sportieve-jonkheer-Jan-Feith-en-Den-Haag_De-Oud-Hagenaar.pdf

Lancet Letter 1989 UW Solution Islet Isolation | 20220823

Lancet Letter 1989 UW Solution Islet Isolation | 20220823 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | June 1989 preparing first submission for publication as letter in the Lancet medical journal the new concept of using the UW solution ( the University of Wisconsin organ preservation solution) for isolation and complete purification of islets of Langerhans in the laboratory for transplantation in diabetic patients. Later that year that exciting discovery was presented at meetings in Minneapolis, USA, and Barcelona, Spain. Details in yesterday’s post. Submission for publication as a letter in the Lancet had had no succes ;)
Final draft text produced on my personal Macintosh ED and Imagewriter-II matrix printer with Geneva font.

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Minneapolis 1989 Poster UW Solution Islet Isolation | 20220822

Minneapolis 1989 Poster • 20240804 • michelvanderburg•com

September 1989 at a symposium of two international societies in Minneapolis, USA (1) , I presented this first poster on the ‘ invention ‘ of using the UW solution ( the University of Wisconsin organ preservation solution) during pancreatic islet isolation, with the exciting discovery of near-complete purification of islets of Langerhans in the laboratory for transplantation in diabetic patients.

The next month at a meeting in Barcelona, Spain, this rather radical new concept was introduced (2, 3). June 1989 submission for publication as a letter in the Lancet had had no succes ;)

Poster designed and produced on my personal Macintosh ED and Imagewriter-II matrix printer, allowing full width printing over multiple pages in landscape (a low cost do-it-yourself discovery by me, at a time when posters were prepared on poster boards by graphical professionals using photography and special lettering techniques for around $400). Original MacDraw II file conversion with LibreOffice Vanilla.

Notes

1) Van der Burg MPM, Gooszen HG, Ploeg RJ, Scherft JP, Field MJ, Guicherit OR, Terpstra JL, Van de Woude FT, Frölich M, Bruijn JA. Comparison of islet isolation techniques in dogs: Over 90% purified islets using UW solution. 4th International Symposium on Organ Procurement and Preservation and 2nd International Congress on Pancreatic and Islet Transplantation, Minneapolis (USA) September 17–22, 1989.

2) Van der Burg MPM, Gooszen HG, Ploeg RJ, Guicherit OR, Scherft JP, Terpstra JL, Bruijn JA, Frölich M. Pancreatic islet isolation with UW solution: a new concept. 4th Congress of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, Barcelona (Spain) November 1–4, 1989.

3) Van der Burg MPM, Gooszen HG, Ploeg RJ, Guicherit OR, Scherft JP, Terpstra JL, Bruijn JA, Frölich M. Pancreatic islet isolation with UW solution: a new concept. Transplant Proc 1990; 22: 2050–2051.

Updates

20240804 – This remastered 20240804 edition of the Minneapolis 1989 poster , now shows the original photo of the islet prep as posted at the meeting in 1989. In addition the correct line spacing is now restored.
The previous poster published online two years ago (20220822) showed a different photo print (higher magnification, and without the bar indicator) of the same islet prep, not the correct image.

20241211 – Minor text updates

Citation info : Minneapolis 1989 Poster UW Solution Islet Isolation | 20220822 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | TakeNode 91d70715-3fb3-4380-906a-0daf1b5ddd6a

Pancreas Meeting Miami

① memo 20181117 ~ Pancreas Meeting Miami ~ American Pancreatic Association (APA) Annual Meeting , Nov 2018 at Eden Roc Miami Beach Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America

Lessons From Clinical Islet Transplantation

① memo 20170208 ~ Lessons From Clinical Islet Transplantation ~ Chairman K. Federlin (Giessen, Germany) opened the seminar Tuesday, January 25, 1994 and David Scharp started with his lessons from the Center in St. Louis (USA) – 13th Workshop of the AIDSPIT Study Group , Igls, Austria ( note : sound re-recorded from speaker of Olympus mini-tape dictaphone )

24th AIDPIT Workshop Igls • @1MEMO 20160125

24th Workshop of the AIDPIT Study Group (Artificial Insulin Delivery, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation), in Igls (Innsbruck) Austria, 23-25 January 2005. Short impression filmed January 25th, further details in endcard of film.

#AIDPIT #Igls #Innsbruck #Tyrol #history #AIDSPIT #Austria #islet #Langerhans #isolation #transplantation #pancreas #diabetes #congress #insulin #michelvanderburg #symposium #EASD

Update

Update 20260125 : The original video embedded (Vimeo file, 640×480) is replaced by embedding a second, remastered, video edition (2022) produced by upscaling the original video file (converted to size 1920 × 1440), adding a caption, and uploaded to YouTube Jan 25, 2022. Post text changed conform current layout. A more detailed post is published in addition, URL https://1-memo.com/2026/01/25/

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