Zoonosis as a Historical and Anthropological Question Conference

The Global War Against the Rat will convene its final conference on June 16-17 2025 (School III) on the topic of Zoonosis as a Historical and Anthropological Question Conference.

Convened by Christos Lynteris, Jules Skotnes-Brown, Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva and Oliver French, the conference aims to go beyond particular histories and ethnographies of zoonotic diseases so as to ask how, as both a phenomenon and a biomedical framework, zoonosis may help us to unsettle broader questions or approaches within and between history and anthropology. Such questions will relate to interspecies relations, technologies and techniques, colonial and postcolonial governance, spatialities and temporalities, ontologies and epistemologies, inter-imperial relations, infrastructural materialities and politics, as well as anthropological and historical methods.

The conference is funded by the Wellcome Trust and will be held exclusively in-person.

Registration information and the conference programme are available on the Zoonosis as a Historical and Anthropological Question Conference website.