The Italian Society for Applied Anthropology
(SIAA) in cooperation with the Department of Political and Social Sciences
at the University of Catania is going to launch its second Speaker' Corner "Listen to the pandemic" on May 12 (18:00-20:00 Italian time), with Andrew
Lakoff as main speaker.
In his latest book,
"Unprepared. Global Health in Time of Emergency", Lakoff follows the history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1950s Cold War civil defense to the early twenty-first century, when international health authorities carved out a global space for governing
potential outbreaks. In our next speakers' corner, he will
explain why despite health authorities, government officials and vaccine manufacturers have been concerned with the possibility of a global pandemic, and funds have been devoted to cutting-edge research on pathogenic organisms, the project of global health
security continues to be unsettled by the prospect of surprise, as the COVID-19 emergency is clearly showing.
Meeting ID: 891-8677-4092
Password: 6kdSQz
Our first speakers' corner - "What Do Bats Think of the Virus. Sentinel and Pandemics" with Frederic Keck - is available here.
