The Covid-19 pandemic radically changed perceptions of illness, health, science and ethics, while reconfiguring relationships between doctors and patients, institutions and subjects, among neighbors and communities, and in politics and governance. A three-day conference, "The Biopolitics of Global Health After Covid-19," will combine biopolitical and anthropological inquiry to spark a cross-disciplinary dialogue about (post-) pandemic discourses and practices of global health. The conference events, May 5-7, are free and open to all.
"Our starting point is that biopolitical thought - although crucial in understanding the dynamics of the Covid-19 pandemic - remains overly walled off from practice," said conference organizer Timothy Campbell, professor of Romance studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. "It is time, we propose, to blur the disciplinary boundaries and renew the relationship between philosopher and ethnographer. In so doing, we aim to challenge and renew a perspective on global health in a post-pandemic world based more on inclusion than exclusion."
Part of a New Frontier Grant project supported by the College of Arts and Sciences, the conference will explore a range of pandemic responses, lived experiences and afterlives and will include two keynotes, a roundtable discussion and paper presentations.
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