Conference programme
AGENDA
Venue: Lecture Room 126, Geography Building, Mile End Road campus. Building 26 on campus map.
Thursday, 7 July
9:00–10.00: Registration with tea/coffee bar
10.00–10:15: Welcoming remarks
10.15–12.30 The Development Of Medical Ecology In France
Frédéric Vagneron (University of Zurich), ‘La Grippe Existe-t-elle?’ Research on influenza in France before 1918 and the predominance of ecological conceptions of disease.
Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Université Laval, Québec), Inventing Medical Ecology: The Reception of Charles Nicolle in France, 1930-1960.
Jon Arrizabalaga (Institución Milà i Fontanals, Spanish National Research Council), Between medical geography and disease ecology: Mirko D. Grmek’s historical epidemiology views.
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:00: Revisiting Key Figures In Disease Ecology
Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney), The Calculus of Disease Ecology Emerging from Cold-War Canberra.
Mark Honigsbaum (QMUL), Accidental Ecologist: René Dubos, the Rockefeller and the ‘road less travelled by.’
15:00–15:30 Tea/coffee break
15:30–17:00: Microbes and Globalisation
Andrew Mendelsohn (QMUL), Modelling Epidemics and Policies in the Age of Extremes, 1915-1946.
Anne-Marie Moulin (University of Paris), Governance of complexity or the political ecology of the microbial diseases in a Global World.
Friday, 8 July
8:30–9:15 Coffee bar
9:15–11:30 Soviet Approaches To Plague Ecology
Susan D. Jones and Anna A. Amramina (University of Minnesota), Entangled Histories of Plague Ecology in Russia and the USSR.
Christos Lynteris (CRASSH) and Michael Y. Kosoy (CDC), Natural Focality of Disease: Origins, Development and Legacy of a Soviet Disease Ecology Paradigm.
Nils Chr. Stenseth (University of Oslo) – A Unified Biology: Six Blind Scientists and the Elephant in the Room, a Parable for Environmentally Mediated Diseases (With a Focus on Plague).
11:30–12:00: Tea break
12:00–13:00: Keynote Address
David Morens (National Institutes of Health), Miasmatism, Contagionism, and Infection: The Evolution of Ideas to Explain Diseases.
13:00–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30: Ecologies of Prevention and Control
Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo), Natural History by the Bedside: Hospital Hygiene, Antibiotics and Infectious Disease 1950-1990.
David Heymann (LSHTM), Emerging Infections: Shifting the Paradigm from Rapid Detection and Response to Prevention at Source.
15:30–16:00: Tea break
16:00–17:00: Roundtable discussion
Chair: Andrew Mendelsohn (QMUL)
19:00 Conference dinner at Coburn Arms, 8 Coborn Road, E3 2DA.