Vaccines in View: UCL Medical Anthropology Seminar Series

We study humanity in all its aspects: from our evolution as a species, to our relationship with the material/digital world, and our vast variety of social practices and cultural forms.Our department is one of the few in the country that combines Biological Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Material Culture and Medical Anthropology to give you a truly broad-based anthropology degree. The breadth and depth of this interdisciplinary approach is reflected in our teaching and research.

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UCL Medical Anthropology invites you to engage with unfolding debates on vaccines and the pandemic through this Seminar Series.

Incorporating pandemic public health, social inequalities, geopolitics, conspiracies and beyond, COVID-19 vaccines find themselves at the centre of the most significant debates of our time. Anthropologists and social scientists have particularly important voices that need to be heard on this matter and are placed in the unique position of watching noteworthy global events unfold before us. As such, UCL Medical Anthropology invites you to engage with unfolding debates on vaccines and the pandemic through the ‘Vaccines in View Seminar Series’.The online series will run on zoom every Thursday from 5-6pm BST (GMT+1) over the summer term, featuring a different distinguished invited guest each week to discuss vaccines and vaccinations. Together, the series seeks to develop an anthropological overview of the vaccine question and seek to better bring the myriad issues that we face more clearly into view.29th AprilAndrew Lakoff (University of Southern California)A Regulatory State of Exception: Vaccines and the Politics of Expertise in the Covid Emergency6th MayFrédéric Keck (National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) France)Stockpiling Vaccines, Storing Viruses: the Cryopolitics of SARS-Cov213th MayJens Seeberg (Aarhus University)The Fight for the Magic Vial: Vaccine Politics, Needs and Infrastructures in Denmark20th MayShelley Lees (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)Anthropological Insights into Vaccine Trial Participation: Lessons for Engaging Publics in Vaccine Deployment27th MayTed Fischer (Vanderbilt University)Values, Vulnerabilities, and Vaccines: Cultural Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic3rd JuneChristos Lynteris (University of St Andrews)Vaccination as Spectacle: Empire, Gender and Photography10th JuneTamara Giles-Vernick (Institut Pasteur)The Sonar-Global Network, Vulnerability and Vaccination in the COVID-19 pandemic

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