The symposium explores the intricate web of connections between microscopic presences and humans and animals. Challenging conventional paradigms, we delve into biosocial theory and explore how biological and social phenomena intersect across species boundaries.
The themes microbial life, antimicrobial resistance, and micropollutants will deepen our understanding of these dynamics. This interdisciplinary dialogue among invited scholars will embrace new perspectives on the complex relationships that shape our world.
Morning session | Session 1: Microbial Life I |
09:15 - 10:00 | Coffee and Welcome from Depury Director of AIAS, Lotte Holm Microbial Salon Presentations |
10:00 - 10:45 | Eben Kirksey: Viral Symbiosis |
10:45 - 11:30 | Holger Brüggemann: "Social" behavoiur of bacteria - three examples from our skin microbiome |
11:30 - 12:15 | Roberta Raffaeta: Microbes and their invisibilities |
12:15 - 13:00 | Lunch |
Afternoon session | Session 2: Micropollutants |
13:00 - 13:45 | Gauri Pathak: Plastic Microbes: Biological Recycling and the Dynamics of Control |
13:45 - 14:30 | Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko: Purity as Danger: Contesting Reproduction and the Body Plastic |
14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee break |
15:00 - 15:45 | Serena Saligari: Gendered toxity: air pollutants in the kitchens and the locl idea of health |
15:45 - 16:30 | Ciara Kierans: The Kidney Matterphor: Engaging multiple problematics of contamination |
Wednesday, May 22
Morning session | Session 3: Microbial Life II |
09:15 - 10:00 | Coffee Microbial salon presentations |
10:00 - 10:45 | Jamie Lorimer & Joshua Evans: Towards a public science of fermentation and the food microbiome |
10:45 - 11:30 | Mark Nichter: Public understanding of antibiotic tradeoffs in South India and North America: Finding a balace between pro and anti-microbial approaches to ecosocial health |
11:30 - 12:15 | Mette Vaarst: Dancing with Microbial Allies as the Most Natural in the World |
12:15 - 13:00 | Lunch |
Afternoon session | Session 4: Antimicrobial Resistance |
13:00 - 13:45 | Eimear Mc Loughlin: A Politics of Resistance: The Biosocial Neighbourhood of Industrial Porcine Life |
13:45 - 14:30 | Rashmi Upadhyay & Jens Seeberg: From Furnace to Pharmaceuticals: Exploring Antimicrobial Resistance in Nepal's Steel Industry |
14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee break |
15:00 - 15:45 | Salla Sariola: Queering Vulnerability: Intersectionality and Social Justice in Ethics of AMR |
15:45 - 16:30 | Concluding Remarks |
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, Marie S. Curie FCFP Senior Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
Holger Brüggemann, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
Joshua Evans, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DTU, Denmark
Heidi Fjeld, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo, Norway
Ciara Kierans, AIAS-PIREAU Fellow, and Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, UK
Eben Kirksey, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, UK
Jamie Lorimer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK
Eimear Mc Loughlin, Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark
Mark Nichter, School of Anthropology, The University of Arizona, USA
Gauri Pathak, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
Roberta Raffaeta, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Serena Saligari, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, UK
Salla Sariola, Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jens Seeberg, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Mette Vaarst, Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark
Registration is open and free. Sign up here no later than May 17 at noon.
