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SUMMARY:Monstrosities and Metamorphosis in More-Than-Human Worlds - Dr Dav
 id Pratten (University of Oxford)\, Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography 
 and the Environment\, University of Oxford)\, Beth Greenhough (School of G
 eography and the Environment\, University of Oxford)\, Eva Bredler\, Profe
 ssor Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford)\, Rosemarie Garland Thomson
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UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/dc9f2c15-5a66-40e6-bc26-f167297aab5b/
DESCRIPTION:Humans have long dreamed about becoming animals. Kafka’s 'Re
 port to an Academy' suggests that some animals may also desire to become h
 uman. Metamorphosis is constantly taking place in the worlds of people and
  other animals. Creatures inside our bodies are transforming us from withi
 n. Our freewheeling discussion will cover diverse topics: rumours about sh
 ape-shifting leopard men in Nigeria\, microbes in our guts that shape the 
 human condition\, and people who were collected together in circus freak s
 hows. \n\nThis event will be live-captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing a
 udience members.\nSpeakers:\nDr David Pratten (University of Oxford)\, Dr 
 Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment\, University of Oxf
 ord)\, Beth Greenhough (School of Geography and the Environment\, Universi
 ty of Oxford)\, Eva Bredler\, Professor Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford
 )\, Rosemarie Garland Thomson
LOCATION:Weston Library (Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre)\, Broad Street 
 OX1 3BG
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/dc9f2c15-5a66-40e6-bc26-f167297aab5b/
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 hool of Geography and the Environment\, University of Oxford)\, Eva Bredle
 r\, Professor Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford)\, Rosemarie Garland Thom
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SUMMARY:Disability Story Circle
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240604T173000
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for an intimate gathering at the Disability Story Circ
 le\, a thought-provoking event that is part of the week-long Oxford Reads 
 Kafka project. Participants will come together to share personal narrative
 s\, insights\, and experiences related to disability and inclusion. Join u
 s in a supportive and inclusive environment. Whether you identify as a dis
 ability scholar\, activist\, or simply have a passion for promoting divers
 ity and inclusion\, this event offers a space for deep connections and tho
 ughtful reflection.
LOCATION:Rhodes House (Rosebury Room)\, South Parks Road OX1 3RG
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/8368de8d-e7bb-46c4-9630-579bc4f3cf96/
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SUMMARY:Extraordinary Bodies\, Disability Justice\, and Metamorphosis - Ro
 semarie Garland Thomson\, Anna Landre\, Benedict Ipgrave\, Stuart Murray\,
  Hannah Thompson\, Zhixin Wan\, Khansa Maria
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UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e182efec-82cb-4a46-b9ca-41449c64728c/
DESCRIPTION:All of our bodies are gradually undergoing metamorphosis. Over
  the course of human life\, we all become disabled. Yet\, many people with
  extraordinary bodies and minds experience discrimination in everyday life
 . Just as Gregor Samsa was shunned\, many disabled people are excluded in 
 social interactions and are alienated by the built environment. Our speake
 rs will be asked to imagine metamorphosis and transformations on a grand s
 ocietal scale.  \n\nThis event will be live-captioned for deaf and hard-of
 -hearing audience members.\nSpeakers:\nRosemarie Garland Thomson\, Anna La
 ndre\, Benedict Ipgrave\, Stuart Murray\, Hannah Thompson\, Zhixin Wan\, K
 hansa Maria
LOCATION:Weston Library (Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre)\, Broad Street 
 OX1 3BG
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SUMMARY:Keynote: Time traveling with Gregor Samsa\, or what you can do wit
 h six legs - Rosemarie Garland Thomson
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240603T140000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240603T150000
UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/edbfb5a3-e669-496a-8005-c48eec7ff698/
DESCRIPTION:The Metamorphoses offers an opportunity to contemplate the une
 xpected shifts in our being that occur to all of us over a lifetime. The p
 arable of Gregor Samsa’s sudden transformation from an average man to a 
 monstrous vermin is a larger-than-life\, grim version of the everyday chan
 ges we all experience moving through life. This lecture muses about other 
 possible lives navigated\, futures imagined\, communities entered\, enviro
 nments created\, and flourishing cultivated. Illness\, disability\, infirm
 ity\, and aging sustain the diversity of human variations. \n\nThis event 
 will be live-captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing audience members.\nSpe
 akers:\nRosemarie Garland Thomson
LOCATION:Weston Library (Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre)\, Broad Street 
 OX1 3BG
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception: Species of Justice art exhibit - Eben Kirksey
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240314T193000Z
UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/6bd506a7-dc19-4d4d-9aef-73a2203640de/
DESCRIPTION:Global markets are expanding\, undermining the conditions of l
 ife on earth. As the privileged few create cosmopolitan refuges in growing
  deserts\, other peoples and creatures are living with slow violence and o
 ngoing war. Industrial processes are uncoupling life from death\, diminish
 ing death’s capacity to channel vitality back to the living. Life is bec
 oming non-life on a planetary scale. An unruly multitude is starting to de
 stabilize anthropos—the figure of the unified human that has been imagin
 ed as the driving force of the Anthropocene. While some hold onto hopes fo
 r a post-human future—a world without us—this installation aims to exp
 ose and derail necropolitical assemblages with new bio-cultural articulati
 ons.\n\nThe Multispecies Justice Collaborative formed in a Zoom room\, dur
 ing the long months of the pandemic lockdown. Anthropologists\, poets\, sc
 ience fiction authors\, philosophers\, geographers\, and visual artists ga
 thered to speculate about the possibilities of justice in more-than-human 
 worlds. The Collaborative launched The Promise of Multispecies Justice boo
 k with a poster campaign\, art exhibition\, and event series in Mexico in 
 December 2022. Initially the works work on display at Universidad Iberoame
 ricana Puebla (7-10\, 2022) and then they travelled to the community of Mi
 guel Hidalgo in the highlands of Chiapas. Selected artworks and posters ha
 ve travelled to Oxford where they have mixed and mingled with intervention
 s related to justice by local creative agents.\n\nCome to the final recept
 ion for this exhibit on 14 March\, from 5:00-7:30\, or stop by during busi
 ness hours before the close of the show.\nhttps://multispeciesjustice.spac
 e/\n\nSpeakers:\nEben Kirksey
LOCATION:51/53 Banbury Road (Old Tylor Library)\, 51 Banbury Road OX2 6PE
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SUMMARY:Public Health in China: Multidisciplinary Workshop  - Xianbing Du\
 , Dong Guoqiang\, Eben Kirksey\, Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge)\, Binl
 i Dai (MPhil student in Medical Anthropology\, University of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240129T160000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240129T173000Z
UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/76b3e83d-b838-4260-a59c-9aea324a40e1/
DESCRIPTION:While Covid-19 has focused attention on public health in China
 \, discussion on this subject can often be polarised\, or can use China to
  contrast public health practices implemented elsewhere.  This workshop wi
 ll focus on public health in China in its own right\, providing a long-ter
 m and multidisciplinary approach to the topic.  It will examine the nature
  of Chinese public health in historical\, political\, and anthropological 
 contexts\, encouraging reflection on whether Chinese public health is a co
 herent concept or distinct practice.  Speakers will provide short presenta
 tions on current research\, with time for general discussion and audience 
 questions.  The workshop will be followed by an informal drinks reception.
  \n\n*Xianbing Du* will discuss current research on cholera and sanitation
  measure in China during the early twentieth century\, including the role 
 of Traditional Chinese Medicine in responding to outbreaks.  \n*Eben Kirks
 ey* and *Binli Dai* will talk about how good viruses were deliberately spr
 ead among people in China\, long before they were isolated and characteriz
 ed by the European medical scientists who get credited for developing the 
 first vaccine.  \n*Dong Guoqiang* will outline the influence of western mi
 ssionaries on Chinese medical education\, hospital construction\, and medi
 cal practice in the modern period\, including the attitude of Nationalist 
 and Communist authorities towards missionary medicine.  \nFinally\, *Mary 
 Brazelton* will share her experience of working with the WHO Western Pacif
 ic Regional Office during the Covid-19 pandemic\, as well as reflections o
 n the relationship between China and global health as a discipline.  \n\nF
 ollowed by a drinks reception.\nSpeakers:\nXianbing Du\, Dong Guoqiang\, E
 ben Kirksey\, Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge)\, Binli Dai (MPhil studen
 t in Medical Anthropology\, University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Dickson Poon Building (Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre\, University 
 of Oxford China Centre (lower ground floor))\, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/76b3e83d-b838-4260-a59c-9aea324a40e1/
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SUMMARY:Making bubbles with chytrids - Eben Kirksey
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DESCRIPTION:\nSpeakers:\nEben Kirksey
LOCATION:Radcliffe Humanities (TORCH)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
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