Clemens van Loyen on "Dealing with Epidemics in Rio de Janeiro for over a Century: From National Vaccine Campaigns to Neighborhood Activism"
Online Lecture Series “Pandemics in American History and Culture”
21.01.2021 16:15 – 17:45
Clemens van Loyen (LMU/Amerika-Institut) will present on "Dealing with Epidemics in Rio de Janeiro for over a Century: From National Vaccine Campaigns to Neighborhood Activism."
The lecture, part of the DFG research project "Urban Ethics" on debates and discourses about the good and just life in Rio de Janeiro, aims to shed light on the corona crisis discourse in Brazil and to present current practices for its "mastery" (Koschorke 2018). Connections to two previous epidemics in Rio will be drawn.
This lecture series will put the current COVID-19 pandemic in historical perspective by looking at past outbreaks of such devastating diseases as the bubonic plague, cholera, polio, HIV/AIDS, and others. Faculty of the Amerika-Institut and guest speakers will scrutinize the public health system of the United States, the impact of and the debates surrounding the politics of vaccinations, the social and cultural significance of quarantines and the unequal distribution of pain and death.
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