BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281029T020000 RDATE:20290325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20291028T020000 RDATE:20300331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20301027T020000 RDATE:20310330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20311026T020000 RDATE:20320328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240428T163000 RDATE:20241027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20280326T030000 RDATE:20281029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290325T030000 RDATE:20291028T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20300331T030000 RDATE:20301027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20310330T030000 RDATE:20311026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8bf79498d05382339d1e80cfd67e7a8a CATEGORIES:Seminari CREATED:20250312T152533 SUMMARY:When Infectious Diseases Became Wild: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975) by Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom) DESCRIPTION:“SISS meets early careers”\nA seminar series organized by the Italian Socie ty for the History of Science\n2nd series 2025\n4.30pm CET\n29th April 2025 \nDr Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva (University of St Andrews, United Kingdo m)\nTitle - When Infectious Diseases Became Wild: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)\nAbstract:\nBetwee n 1920 and 1975, Brazil was pitted against an unprecedented sanitary phenom enon. Plague and yellow fever, two urban diseases, progressively advanced t owards the Brazilian hinterland, where they infected rural populations and wild animals, such as rodents, marsupials, and primates. The history of dis eases moving from cities to wild spaces complexifies current mainstream int erpretations about emerging infectious diseases. Exploring this difference, in this presentation I will ask: which knowledge about diseases becoming w ild emerged in Brazil? How did Brazilian health authorities control these w ild diseases? What were the social and environmental consequences of anti-w ild disease measures in Brazil? In reconstructing the epistemological, poli tical, social, and environmental dimensions of wild diseases in Brazil, thi s presentation aims to complexify the global history of disease ecology.\nB io: Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on the global history of microbiology, tropical medicine, and disease ecology. He has co-edited the books Beyond Science and Empire (Routledge 2023) and Rur al Disease Knowledge (Routledge, 2024).\n\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“SISS meets early careers”
A seminar se ries organized by the Italian Society for the History of Science
2nd s eries 2025
4.30pm CET

29th April 2025

Dr Matheus Alves Dua rte da Silva (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)

Title - When Infectious Diseases Became Wild: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)

Abstract:
Between 1920 a nd 1975, Brazil was pitted against an unprecedented sanitary phenomenon. Pl ague and yellow fever, two urban diseases, progressively advanced towards t he Brazilian hinterland, where they infected rural populations and wild ani mals, such as rodents, marsupials, and primates. The history of diseases mo ving from cities to wild spaces complexifies current mainstream interpretat ions about emerging infectious diseases. Exploring this difference, in this presentation I will ask: which knowledge about diseases becoming wild emer ged in Brazil? How did Brazilian health authorities control these wild dise ases? What were the social and environmental consequences of anti-wild dise ase measures in Brazil? In reconstructing the epistemological, political, s ocial, and environmental dimensions of wild diseases in Brazil, this presen tation aims to complexify the global history of disease ecology.

Bio: Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Uni versity of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on the gl obal history of microbiology, tropical medicine, and disease ecology. He ha s co-edited the books Beyond Science and Empire (Routledge 2023) and Rural Disease Knowledge (Routledge, 2024).

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