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ADI/SSN COVID-19 Seminar Series #2: Eben Kirksey

May

05

ADI/SSN COVID-19 Seminar Series #2: Eben Kirksey

by Deakin Science and Society Network

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Tue., 5 May 2020

10:00 am – 11:30 am AEST

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Seminar Series on COVID-19, co hosted by the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation and the Science and Society Network

About this event

Please join us seminar # 2 in the COVID-19 seminar series, co-hosted by the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation (ADI) and the Science and Society Network (SSN).

Title:

The Emergence of COVID19: A Multispecies Story

Abstract:

Origin stories about COVID19 have circulated widely. An exotic animal market, deep in the enigmatic East, spawned a new pandemic virus. Multiple species of bat and little scaly anteaters called pangolins have all been implicated in conventional accounts about the coronavirus outbreak. Outbreak narratives, about the wet animal market in Wuhan, reek of Orientalism. Media pundits, who have struggled to explain the sudden upheaval of the modern world, have reanimated old stereotypes about Asian people and exotic animals. The subjects of these multispecies stories, to reference Edward Said, share “in common an identity best described as lamentably alien.” As medical doctors, virologists and epidemiologists publish new evidence, origin stories about exotic animals are starting to fall apart.

About the speaker:

Eben Kirksey, an associate professor of Anthropology at Deakin University, is currently in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has published two books with Duke University Press: Emergent Ecologies and Freedom in Entangled Worlds. St. Martin’s Press will publish his most recent book, The Mutant Project: Inside the Race to Genetically Modify Humans, later this year.

Watch the seminar:

Seminar will be available to stream on YouTube live. Access using the live link: https://youtu.be/ZC9ES4x72zY

Date/time: Tuesday 5th May, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10)

Q&A with the speaker to follow. To send questions/participate in the chat, you'll need to sign-in using a YouTube account.

The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on the SSN YouTube channel after the Livestream.

If you have any questions, please send to ssn-info@deakin.edu.au

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  • Online Events
  • Online Seminars
  • Online Science & Tech Seminars
  • #covid_19
  • #multispecies
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