Inoculating history, salvaging what is held

Inoculating history, salvaging what is held:
race, epidemiology and immunity from Freetown to Atlanta

Department of Anthropology’s
Regna Darnell Distinguished Lecture
In Theory, Ethnography and Activism in Anthropology

Adia Benton
(Dept. of Anthropology, Weinburg College of Arts & Sciences)

When: Friday February 11, 2022
Time: 1:30pm
Where: Via Zoom

RSVP by February 7 to anthrorsvp@uwo.ca

This lecture weaves together archival research about the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Collaboration with the Atlanta police department in the early 1980s, oral histories of CDC workers who investigated an Ebola outbreak in Magazine Wharf, Freetown, visits to the CDC museum, and fieldwork conducted in Sierra Leone after the 2014-16 West African Ebola pandemic to think through critical questions about the health-security nexus in global public health and the racialized organizations situated at that nexus.

Everyone is welcome.