OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
The global pandemic of bubonic plague at the turn of the nineteenth century known as the third plague pandemic struck at major harbours and cities across the globe, leaving behind it 12 million dead. It was in the course of this pandemic that the rat came to be understood for the first time as a vector of the particular disease, thus leading to mass-scale programmes of vector control in cities across the globe. These came to include three types of intervention: rat eradication, rat-proofing and urban demolition. This seminar will explore the unfolding and interrelation of these measures of epidemic control, focusing on the role of visual media in their execution, propagation and entanglement. It will thus explore the lasting legacy of these visual and material regimes of interspecies epidemic control in the urban terrain.
