BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:SAMUEL G. DUNN LECTURESHIP IN THE MEDICAL HUMANITIES \;We W ho Do Not Die:Outbreak Narratives Limits and the Political Category of the SurvivorAdia Benton\, PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of AnthropologyWei nberg College of Arts &\; SciencesNorthwestern UniversityThursday\, Dec ember 9\, 202111:00am - 12:00pmAmidst rising Covid-19 cases and deaths in North America\, poet Dionne Brand questioned the political tendency &ldquo \;to manage the pandemic as narrative\, as calculus\, but not yet as recko ning.&rdquo\; Her question is a counterpoint to narrative approaches like Rosenberg&rsquo\;s and echoes concerns foregrounded in Wald&rsquo\;s appro ach\, both of which examine meaning\, structure and effect of epidemics on society. Drawing on the case of Ebola survivorship in Sierra Leone\, I th ink through Brand&rsquo\;s assertion\, and their implications for certain kinds of narrative approaches: what do narrative and calculative perspecti ves presume\, prefigure and prioritize -- particularly as they relate to t emporal and experiential dimensions of disease events and public health cr ises? I argue that moving beyond the dramaturgical and narrative explanati ons (and towards reckoning) requires foregrounding relations of power\, in tersubjectivity\, and temporalities that exceed conventional epidemic plot . \;Register in advance for this webinar: \; \;After registeri ng\, you will receive a confirmation email containinginformation about joi ning the webinar. \; DTEND:20211209T180000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T055615Z DTSTART:20211209T170000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:We Who Do Not Die: Outbreak Narratives Limits and the Political Cat egory of the Survivor UID:RFCALITEM638472705750920301 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Adia Bento
n\, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology<
br />Weinberg College of Arts &\; Sciences
Northwestern University
Amidst rising Covid-19 ca ses and deaths in North America\, poet Dionne Brand questioned the politic al tendency &ldquo\;to manage the pandemic as narrative\, as calculus\, bu t not yet as reckoning.&rdquo\; Her question is a counterpoint to narrativ e approaches like Rosenberg&rsquo\;s and echoes concerns foregrounded in W ald&rsquo\;s approach\, both of which examine meaning\, structure and effe ct of epidemics on society. Drawing on the case of Ebola survivorship in S ierra Leone\, I think through Brand&rsquo\;s assertion\, and their implica tions for certain kinds of narrative approaches: what do narrative and cal culative perspectives presume\, prefigure and prioritize -- particularly a s they relate to temporal and experiential dimensions of disease events an d public health crises? I argue that moving beyond the dramaturgical and n arrative explanations (and towards reckoning) requires foregrounding relat ions of power\, intersubjectivity\, and temporalities that exceed conventi onal epidemic plot.
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