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PROGRAMME:
10:00 – Introduction by Judith Rainhorn (MFO) & Benoit Pouget (MFO-Mesopolhis)
10:10-10:40 Keynote: Bruno Strasser (Geneva) : ‘“Breathing Modernities”: Masks, Microbes and Medicine’
10:40-11:40 – Panel 1: Early modern innovations to prevent contaminated air
Chair Rob Illife (Oxford) – Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS Paris) ‘“Protecting ourselves without understanding breathing?” The paradox of the relationship between air and health in the 18th century through innovative protective devices’ – Guillaume Linte (Geneva) ‘Contaminated Air, Ventilators and Naval Hygiene in 18th century France’
12:00-13:00 – Panel 2: Skills and practices of personal protection
Chair Erica Charters (Oxford) – Berny Sebe (Birmingham) ‘The Mother of All Masks? The Tagoulmoust of the Tuaregs in the Sahara’ – Shelley Castle (Oxford) ‘The First World War respirator: the race for survival’
14:15-15:15 – Panel 3: Masks: a panacea in the time of Covid?
Chair Laure Humbert (Manchester) – Mark Harrison (Oxford) ‘Faceless: masks, identity and resistance in the UK during the Covid19 pandemic’ – Ian Griffiths (Oxford) ‘How can mathematical modelling be used to find the optimal face mask?’
15:15-16:00 – General Discussion and Conclusion
For more information visit the website:
hsmt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/international-workshop-breathing-contaminated-air-the-history-of-face-masks-as-a-panacea
