Programme

November 22

14:30 - 15:00 Greetings and introduction: Tropical medicine, nation-building and Empire

15:00 - 15:45 Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester): Tropical Medicine and Internationalism

15:45 - 16:30 Isabel Amaral (Universidad Nova de Lisboa) Tropical medicine and the consolidation of the Empire: reflecting on the Portuguese case (1902-1960)

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 17: 45 Mauro Capocci (Sapienza University, Rome) - Daniele Cozzoli (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona): Tropical Medicine, the Nation and the Colonial Expansion in the view of Italian Navy Physicians (1885 - 1915).

17: 45 - 18:30 Stephen Snelders (Utrecht University): Dutch colonial medicine and empire building in the tropics: The cases of leprosy and drug abuse in the Dutch East and West Indies compared.

20:30 Dinner

November 23

9:30 - 10:15 Edna Bonhomme (Max-Planck Institute für Wissenschaftgeschichte, Berlin): Sanitary Imperialism and Border Making in Late Nineteenth Century North Africa. 

10:15 - 11:00 Francisco Javier Martínez (Universidade de Evora): Civilizing gap: the failed creation of a tropical medicine institute in Spain (1885-1957)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:15 Sarah Ehlers (Deutsches Museum, Munich): German Tropical Medicine and its European Entanglements after the Great War.

12:15 - 13:00 Yubin Shen (Max-Planck Institute für Wissenschaftgeschichte, Berlin): State Medicine, and the People’s Health:  Tropical Medicine and Control of Kala-azar in China, 1900-1960

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:15 Anna Afanasyeva (Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow): Bacteriology, modernity and the state: Russian anti-plague campaigns in the Kazakh steppe (late 19th and early 20th centuries).

15:15 - 16:00 Matheus Duarte (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): Circulatory laboratories: connections, competition and knowledge production in the first years of the bubonic plague pandemic (1894-1907)

16:00 - 16:45 Closing remarks