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Program of the Conference “Invisible Enemies”. The Cultural Meaning of Infection and
the Politics of “Plague” (University of Zurich)
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Registration
2:00 p.m.
Welcome
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Sander Gilman (Chicago): Infectobesity: Obesity as an Infectious Disease
3:30 p.m.
Short Break
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Andrew Mendelsohn (London): Nationalism, European Cold War and
the Making of Immunity, 1880-1908
4:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
5:15-7:15 p.m.
WORKSHOP 1:
WORKSHOP 2:
8:00 p.m.
Dinner with all Speakers
Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus
Epidemiology I: Risk, Fear and Vaccination
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Paul Weindling (Oxford): Pest Control in the Gardening State: The
Politics of Migration and Disease in the 20th Century
11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 a.m.
Christoph Gradmann (Heidelberg): The Colonial Laboratory of Medical
Bacteriology
12:30 a.m.
Lunch Break
2:00-4:00 p.m.
WORKSHOP 3:
WORKSHOP 4:
4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:30-6:30 p.m.
WORKSHOP 5:
WORKSHOP 6:
The SARS Outbreak
Bakteriologie und Krieg
Cultures of Aids
Epidemiology II: Fighting Infectious Diseases
Friday, September 23rd, 2005
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Ilana Löwy (Paris): Immunology: Models, Metaphors and Boundary Concepts
10:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 a.m.
WORKSHOP 7:
WORKSHOP 8:
12:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Robert Steffen (Zürich): Tourism, Migration and Emerging Infections
3:00 p.m.
Short Break
3:15-4:15 p.m.
Wolfgang Preiser (Stellenbosch): SARS – Paradigm of an Emerging Infectious
Disease
4:15 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:45-6:45 p.m.
WORKSHOP 9: Migration und Infektion
WORKSHOP 10: Literatur der Infektion
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Öffentliche Podiumsdiskussion (Kongresshaus Zürich): Infektionskrankheiten
im 21. Jahrhundert: Globale Risiken und lokale politische Strategien.
Mit Jan von Overbeck, Swiss Re; Christian Griot, Institut für
Viruskrankheiten und Immunprophylaxe; Roger Staub, Aids-Delegierter,
Bundesamt für Gesundheit; Wolfgang Preiser; Robert Steffen; Elisabeth
Zemp, Universität Basel; Moderation: Philipp Sarasin.
Theories of Infectious Diseases
Architektur und Hygiene
Saturday, September 24th, 2005
9:30-11:30 a.m.
WORKSHOP 11:
WORKSHOP 12:
Epidemiology III: Systems of Surveillance
Die Self/Non-Self-Relation
11:30 a.m.
Coffee Break
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Ruth Mayer/Brigitte Weingart (Hannover/Bonn): Discursive Contamination:
The Trope of the Virus
1:00 p.m. – open end
Concluding Discussion