Part 2: "Caring for Chimps as Viral Kin"

Bloodborne: Chasing Ecologies and Power Across Viral Divides
Date
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
302 Frist Campus Center

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Event Description

Part two of a three-part lecture series. This series is co-sponsored by the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies and Princeton University Press.

The lectures are as follows

  • Tuesday, April 18: "The Monkey Books"
  • Wednesday, April 19: "Caring for Chimps as Viral Kin"
  • Thursday, April 20: "Ebola in a Stew of Fear"

Gregg Mitman is the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Guest Research Professor at LMU’s Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. He is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and teacher, whose interests span the history of science, medicine, and the environment in the United States and the world and include a commitment to environmental and social justice.

 

 

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