Conference Programme - After 1918: History and Politics of Influenza in the 20th and 21st Centuries
After 1918: History and politics of influenza in the 20th and 21st centuries
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, Rennes, France
24-26 August 2011
Organised by:
Prof. Patrick Zylberman
Chair of the History of Health Science
Ehesp - Department of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences
and
Dr. Michael Bresalier
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Manchester
Programme
9:00-9:30 – Registration
9:30-10:00 – Conference Introduction
10:00-11:30 – Pandemic Memories
• Chair: Patrick Zylberman (EHESP)
• Nancy K. Bristow (University of Puget Sound)
Forgetting and Remembering: The Human Legacy of the 1918 Pandemic in the United States
• John McLane (University of Otago)
One Disease, One People, Two Histories: Influenza in Samoa
• Esyllt Jones (University of Manitoba)
Beyond the Epidemic Moment: Family, Memory and Modernity in Influenza’s Histories
11:45-13:30 – Lunch
13:30-15:00 – Medical Legacies
• Chair: Donald Avery (University of Western Ontario)
• Andrew Noymer (University of California, Irvine)
The 1918–19 influenza pandemic affected the decline of tuberculosis.
• James E. Higgins (Kutztown University)
Responses, Results, and Revisions: Four Industrial Cities’ Response to Influenza, Mortality Results, and Post-Epidemic Changes to Public Health and Pneumonia, 1918-1920.
• Wilfried Witte (Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Berlin)
Between Bacteriology and Virology. Influenza vaccination in Germany, 1930s-1949.
15:00-15:15 – Break
15:15-16:45 – Pursuing Pandemics
• Chair: Nancy Bristow (University of Puget Sound)
• Mark Honigsbaum (Zurich University)
Influenza, apocalypse and pandemic production
• Kenton Kroker (York University)
Epidemic encephalitis, an inversion of influenza
• Carol R. Byerly (University of Colorado)
An Elusive Foe: The U.S. Army’s Pursuit of Influenza from the 1920s to the 1970s
16:45-17:00 - Break
17:00-18:00 - Keynote
• Howard Philips (University of Capetown)
How the years flew: 93 years of influenza historiography
19:00 – Dinner
Thursday 25 August
9:00-10:30 – Surveillance Systems
• Chair: Michael Bresalier (CHSTM)
• George Dehner (Wichita State University)
Creating the World Influenza Surveillance System: Surveillance with a Purpose
• Frédéric Vagneron (Centre de Recherches Historiques, EHESS)
The WHO Influenza Program and the Surveillance of Influenza epidemics (1947-1970s)
• Frédéric Keck (Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, EHESS)
How Hong Kong Became a Sentinel for Avian Flu
10:30-10:45 – Break
10:45-12:15 – Biosecurity Politics
• Chair: Susan Craddock (University of Minnesota)
• Donald H. Avery (University of Western Ontario)
The 1957 Influenza Pandemic and Biological Warfare Planning: An Unexplored Relationship
• Nadav Davidovitch/ Benjamin Langer (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Securitisation of Global Public Health: Emerging Frameworks from Israel-Palestine
• Carlo Caduff (Zurich University)
The Semiotics of Security: Infectious Disease Research and the Biopolitics of Informational Bodies in the United States
12:15-13:30 – Lunch
14:00-15:00 – Globalization and Flu
• Chair: Mark Honigsbaum (Zurich University)
• Veronica Rocamora/Francisco Tirado (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Why did the H1N1 Influenza reach its global condition? The techno-social operators and the global aspects of the epidemics
• Meike Wolf (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Prevention and Preparedness: Anthropological perspectives on the globalization of influenza
15:00-15:15 – Break
15:15-16:15 – Keynote
• Claude Hannoun (Institut Pasteur)
19:30 – Conference Dinner
Friday 26 August
9:30-10:30 – Politics of Planning
• Chair: Virginia Berridge (LSTHM)
• François Buton & Frédéric Pierru (Université Montpellier)
Crises that didn’t come: Responses to pandemic influenza threats: USA 1976, France 2009
• Stéphanie Thomas (Université Paris Sorbonne)
The dynamics of communicating in a health crisis: the H1N1 influenza crisis in France
10:30-10:45 – Break
10:45-12:15 – Governing Flu
• Chair: Tamara Giles-Vernick (Institut Pasteur)
• Yu-Ju Chien (University of Minnesota)
Global Health Governance and Institutional Collaboration – The Adoption and Manufacturing of the “One Health”
• Rachel Irwin (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Who governs pandemic influenza? Negotiating fair access, equity and transparency in pandemic preparedness
• Kristen Gray (University of California, Berkeley)
Universal Rights, Global Responsibility: Voluntary Donations and the Politics of Sustainability in the Expanded Programme on Immunization
12:15-13:30 - Lunch
13:30-15:00 – Roundtable
Lessons and Prospects: Directions in the History and Politics of Influenza
• Virginia Berridge (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
• Tamara Giles-Vernick (Institut Pasteur)
• Susan Craddock (University of Minnesota)
15:00-15:30 – Conference Closing