Zoonotic Collecting Conference, June 24-25 2024

The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis project invites anyone interested to attend its 4th annual conference on the theme of 'Zoonotic Collecting: Perspectives from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Life Science'. Convened by Drs Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva and Jules Skotnes-Brown, the conference will take place in person in St Andrews on June 24 and 25 2024.

Bringing together perspectives from the history and anthropology of medicine, museum studies, animal studies, ecology, and other disciplines, this conference seeks to understand the relationships between collecting (broadly construed) and zoonosis. In so doing, it aims to chart how collecting has been linked with medical and health questions; the material, epistemological, and political lives of medical collections; and how collecting in times of outbreaks, epidemics, and even pandemics has shaped the lives of humans, plants, microbes, animals, and insects. The conference is funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Registration deadline: May 31, 2024. Please visit our website for more information and to register for free.