Professor Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Keck, CNRS France Laboratoire d\u2019Anthropologie Sociale, Coll\u00e8ge de France, Paris joins us at the Templeman Lecture Theatre for this prestigious annual Social Anthropology Lecture\n<\/p>\n
After experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species interactions between humans and birds. In some locations microbiologists allied with veterinarians and birdwatchers to follow the mutations of flu viruses in birds and humans and create preparedness strategies, while in others, public health officials worked toward preventing pandemics by killing thousands of birds. Analyzing\u00a0how the anticipation of bird flu pandemics has changed relations between birds and humans in China, I show that varied strategies dealing with the threat of pandemics\u2014stockpiling vaccines and samples in Taiwan, simulating pandemics in Singapore, and monitoring viruses and disease vectors in Hong Kong\u2014reflect local geopolitical relations to mainland China.\u00a0I conclude my talk with reflections on the relations between humans and bats in China at the time of Covid-19.<\/p>\n
Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Keck is Director of the Laboratoire d\u2019Anthropologie Sociale<\/a> based at the Coll\u00e8ge de France in Paris.<\/p>\n Prof. Keck studied philosophy at the \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure and at the Universit\u00e9 Lille III, as well as anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. \u00a0After joining the CNRS in 2005, he carried out ethnographic studies on health crises relating to animal diseases: BSE, SARS, and \u201cavian\u201d and \u201cswine\u201d flu. His work, at the interface between the history of science, the sociology of risk, and the anthropology of nature, more generally addresses the \u201cbio-security\u201d standards applied to humans and animals, as well as the forecasting methods that they produce with respect to health and ecological disasters. This research has led to the publication of articles, journal editions and edited collections in French and English, as well as two books: Un Monde Gripp\u00e9<\/em> (Flammarion, 2010) and Avian Reservoirs<\/em>, (Duke University Press, 2019).<\/p>\n He was a laureate of the Fondation Fyssen in 2007, received the CNRS bronze medal in 2011, and was a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in 2015. He\u00a0directed the research and teaching department at the Mus\u00e9e du quai Branly between 2014 and 2018. He has been the director of the Laboratory for Social Anthropology since January 2019. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prof Keck has been in high demand around the world, providing an anthropological perspective on its potential origins and the course it has taken.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Stirling Lecture<\/u><\/strong> is held annually in honour of Professor Paul Stirling (1920-1998), the founding Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Kent in 1965. Paul Stirling did ethnographic research in two Anatolian villages between 1949 and 1994. His research focused on Turkish village life, pioneering ethnographic studies of change, development and applied anthropology. Prof Chris Hann recognized him as \u201cthe outstanding anthropologist of the making of a modern Turkey, and of the processes of modernization.\u201d In 1998, Prof Michael Fischer worked with Prof. Stirling to archive all his fieldnotes and other material, now available to all for research and teaching purposes.<\/a><\/p>\n Tuesday, September 28, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n 5 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Templeman Lecture Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n For more information, contact Raj Puri<\/a>, Academic Head of Social Anthropology, rkp@kent.ac.uk.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Professor Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Keck, CNRS France Laboratoire d\u2019Anthropologie Sociale, Coll\u00e8ge de France, Paris joins us at the Templeman Lecture Theatre for this prestigious annual Social Anthropology … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":6956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6952"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6995,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions\/6995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}