October 24: Lukas Engelmann at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar: Lukas Engelmann (University of Edinburgh) will present:
A TALE OF "WELL-STIRRED" SOCIETIES? POPULATION BIOLOGY AND THE STEEP ASCENT OF EPIDEMIC MODELING SINCE THE 1970s.
October 24, 14:00-16:00 CET
Room 5028, Friedrichstraße 191-193
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In the science-policy interface, epidemic modelling has become synonymous with epidemiological science. As 'evidence-enough' (Rhodes & Lancaster 2022) epidemic modelling has been hailed as convenient, pragmatic, and timely advice in desperate times. During Covid-19 and in the aftermath the craft has also been fiercely criticised as 'policy-led-science' and as pernicious 'crisis technology'(Anderson 2021) utilised to de-politicise epidemiological reasoning. Lukas Engelmann will present his latest research revisiting the steep rise of epidemic modelling and infectious disease dynamics since the 1970s, with a particular focus on the towering influence of the work of Roy Anderson and Robert May. He will outline a historical sociology of epidemic modelling to foreground the implied concepts, ideas and visions of society and sociability as matter of contagion that have shaped the field.
LUKAS ENGELMANN is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is a historian of medicine and epidemiology, asking how historical forms of knowledge production bear on contemporary politics of health. Since 2020 and with funding from an ERC Starting Grant, he has developed, established, and led the Epidemy Lab, which brings the modern history of epidemiological reasoning into critical conversation with its authoritative present.
October 24: Lukas Engelmann at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar: Lukas Engelmann (University of Edinburgh) will present:
A TALE OF "WELL-STIRRED" SOCIETIES? POPULATION BIOLOGY AND THE STEEP ASCENT OF EPIDEMIC MODELING SINCE THE 1970s.
October 24, 14:00-16:00 CET
Room 5028, Friedrichstraße 191-193
Sign up for the Zoom link by clicking here and filling out this form.
In the science-policy interface, epidemic modelling has become synonymous with epidemiological science. As 'evidence-enough' (Rhodes & Lancaster 2022) epidemic modelling has been hailed as convenient, pragmatic, and timely advice in desperate times. During Covid-19 and in the aftermath the craft has also been fiercely criticised as 'policy-led-science' and as pernicious 'crisis technology'(Anderson 2021) utilised to de-politicise epidemiological reasoning. Lukas Engelmann will present his latest research revisiting the steep rise of epidemic modelling and infectious disease dynamics since the 1970s, with a particular focus on the towering influence of the work of Roy Anderson and Robert May. He will outline a historical sociology of epidemic modelling to foreground the implied concepts, ideas and visions of society and sociability as matter of contagion that have shaped the field.
LUKAS ENGELMANN is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is a historian of medicine and epidemiology, asking how historical forms of knowledge production bear on contemporary politics of health. Since 2020 and with funding from an ERC Starting Grant, he has developed, established, and led the Epidemy Lab, which brings the modern history of epidemiological reasoning into critical conversation with its authoritative present.
