JMintheUS Webinar: No End in Sight? Epidemic Temporalities and Narratives in Modern Europe

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The Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence would like to share this upcoming webinar organized by the Center of European Studies at the University of Florida and part of the #JMintheUS event series.

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In the past year more people have become familiar with the graph of the epidemic curve than ever before. Beginnings, peaks and endings of COVID-19 occupy everyday discussions, inform policies, shape social interactions and provide bases for criticism and political action. What constitutes an ending, when that endpoint is and what might bring it about is more and more unclear, however. Through historical case studies, this talk explores some of the stakes in how we think about the temporalities of epidemics, and how their historical framing may impact on public health responses.

Speaker:

ImageDora Vargha
Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities
University of Exeter

Dr. Dora Vargha is Senior Lecturer based jointly at the Department of History and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health. She is a member of the WHO Collaborative Centre for Cultural Contexts of Health at the University of Exeter and co-editor of the journal Social History of Medicine. Her work spans from the politics of epidemic management to public health systems and access to therapeutics. Vargha’s book, Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic (2018) received the biannual book prize of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. She has written on the global infrastructure of diphtheria antitoxin, the politics of vaccination in the Cold War, hospital care of disabled children in communist contexts and about shifting epidemic narratives in historical analysis. Her new research project, Socialist Medicine explores global health histories from the the Socialist World’s perspective.
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