Zoonosis as a Historical & Anthopological Question

Talk by Benjamin Hegarty, medical anthropologist, Senior Research associate at Kirby Institute, UNSW Syndey, Research afiliate at Oxford University, and 2024-2025 research-fellow the Paris IAS (FIAS program), as part of the final conference of the Wellcome-funded project The Global Wae Against the Rat organized by the department of Social Anthropology of the University of St Andrews. 

Onsite event, open to the public (limited places). 
Mandatory registration before June 10th, via the following adress: wwrat@st-andrews.ac.uk
Conferences in English.

Presentation

The final conference of the Wellcome-funded project The Global War Against the Rat will examine how zoonosis gives rise to new historical and anthropological questions and to new perspectives on existing ones. The conference aims to go beyond the particular histories and ethnographies of zoonotic diseases so as to ask how, as both a phenomenon and a biomedical framework, zoonosis may help us to unsettle broader questions or approaches within and between history and anthropology. Such questions will relate to interspecies relations, technologies and techniques, colonial and postcolonial governance, spatialities and temporalities, ontologies and epistemologies, inter-imperial relations, infrastructural materialities and politics, as well as anthropological and historical methods.

Organizers

- Christos Lynteris (Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of St Andrews)
- Jules Skotnes-Brown (Research Fellow, University of St Andrews)
- Oliver French (PhD, Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews)
- Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva (Research Fellow, University of St Andrews)

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