CfP: What was Epidemiology?
With Susanne Bauer (University of Oslo), Adia Benton (Northwestern University), Tamara Giles-Vernick (Institut Pasteur), Christos Lynteris (St. Andrews University), Graham Mooney (Johns Hopkins University) Organised by TER at University of Edinburgh, Lukas Engelmann, ERC Grant # 947872 Web: http://theepidemy.net Twitter: @epidemyerc This workshop’s overarching question is: What was Epidemiology? We will open a forum for creative explorations of a new historiography of epidemiology in the long twentieth century (1890 – 2010). Given our Covid present, the workshop’s question will prompt reflections on the value of this history within an ongoing pandemic. The science of epidemiology has, as Nature underlined in a recent editorial, shaped the world’s responses to Covid. But the pandemic has also shown the field of epidemiology to have undergone substantial transformation over the last century. From early 2020, infectious disease modelling was charged with giving scientific justification t