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Y2025 the 2nd Visiting Research Fellow Seminar

Date Friday, September 12, 2025, 13:15–14:45
Venue RIHN Seminar Room 3-4 and online (ZOOM)
Registration Pre-registration is required.
Please contact to International Affairs Subsection ( kokusai[at]chikyu.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @.)) to register.
Program Lecturer:
BROWN, Hannah (Durham University, /地球研フェローシップ外国人研究員 RIHN Visiting Research Fellow)
Title: Thinking about zoonotic disease with Anthropology
Abstract:
In this talk I will give an overview of my work on human-animal relations and health as a topic of interest for medical anthropology. I will give an overview of a recently completed project about Lassa fever, a rodent born disease that is endemic across parts of West Africa, as an example of this approach. I will then discuss briefly how these approaches inform current work that is exploring bushmeat economies in Sierra Leone. Throughout the talk I will make the argument that attending to human-animal relations ethnographically opens new possibilities for understanding zoonotic disease risk through richer insights into the way that humans live with animals.
Language English
Organized Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Contact International Affairs Subsection
( kokusai [at]chikyu.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @.) )

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