<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Dear all — for several of you the conference below will be of interest, best, Richard</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="moz-forward-container" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="moz-signature">Dear Colleague<br class=""><br class="">I would be most grateful if you could pass this Call for Papers onto your colleagues and students.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26602" class="">Techniques, Technologies and Materialities of Epidemic Control</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>conference will take place in Cambridge, 16 - 17 September 2016.<br class=""><br class="">=====<br class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Hebrew';" class="">Techniques, technologies and materialities of epidemic control<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><i class=""><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Hebrew';" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Epidemic diseases emerge, unfold and are contained and controlled within infrastructural and technological formations. And at the same time, such technologies are employed and portrayed as crucial to the overall rehabilitation of civic order, often seen as being compromised or disturbed by unfolding epidemics.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-align: justify;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">This conference seeks to explore technologies and techniques of epidemic containment and control. This is aimed at shifting attention away from epidemic’s ‘evental’ status or the ‘outbreak narrative’ and towards economies of continuous investment and attention. The conference will focus on the coordination of objects, strategies, labour, policies and bodies in the effort to isolate, cleanse, and renew pathological environments by asking; how can we problematise the continuity of counter-epidemic technologies across supposed epistemic breakthroughs, such as the “laboratory revolution” in medicine? How do techniques and technologies function as sites of contestation, resistance, accommodation or reclamation in the course of outbreaks? What methods of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">in situ</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>enskillment, from individual training to mass mobilization, does their employment necessitate? In which ways does the success or failure of these techniques and technologies inform broader configurations of infectious diseases as intelligible and actionable categories? What is the afterlife of failed or obsolete counter-epidemic technologies in the everyday sphere, and how are such techniques and devices remembered?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">We invite papers from across the social sciences and humanities (anthropology, history, sociology, geography, STS) as well as from public health perspectives. Potential delegates are encouraged to consider the role of the following in epidemic control:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-indent: -18pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;" class=""><span class="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Adobe Hebrew';" class="">technologies such as machines, devices, manuals, prototypes, blueprints, drugs, vaccines, rapid diagnostic tests and sera<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-indent: -18pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;" class=""><span class="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Adobe Hebrew';" class="">techniques such as quarantine, cleansing, testing, training, enskilling, and investing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Reflecting our project’s particular interest in the visual we particularly welcome papers addressing the materiality and efficacy of the visual.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Abstracts of no more than 200 words are to be sent to Branwyn Poleykett (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bp356@cam.ac.uk">bp356@cam.ac.uk</a>) by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">1</b><b class=""><sup class="">st</sup></b><b class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>May 2016</b>. College based accommodation for two nights will be booked and provided to speakers free of charge. Speakers are expected to cover their own travel expenses.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><br class=""><br class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><div class=" date__2015_12_15___11_41 main_html
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