CONTAGION 2021 PROGRAMME SCHEDULE Click on the event title to register
30 FRI
1
SAT
2
SUN
APRIL SHEILA JASANOFF
Control, Consensus, Chaos: The Global Response to the Pandemic
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
22 SAT
FRI
8
SAT
9
MAY GAUTAM MENON
in the Context of AIDS and Ebola Epidemics
Why and How Should We Model Infectious Diseases?
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL LENA BUI in conversation with FREDRIC KECK Where Birds Dance Their Last
5:00 PM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
23 SUN
RANJIT KANDALGAONKAR Drawing (from) the Bombay Plague
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM WORKSHOP BENGALURU ONEHEALTH CITY CONSORTIUM AND THE ECHO NETWORK
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM WORKSHOP
Decoding OneHealth
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM WORKSHOP
6:30 PM LECTURE
MARIAM GHANI in conversation with RASHMI SAWHNEY
The Age of Pandemics, 1817-1920: How They Shaped India and the World
Dis-Ease
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
5:00 PM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
JYOTI JOSHI Antimicrobial Resistance: The Pandemic in the Shadows
ANANYA KABIR
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
Contagion and Electricity: Two Ways of Talking About Connection in Dance
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
DORA VARGHA After the End of Epidemics: A Cold War View
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL MATT ADAMS Creating Interactive Art About Pandemics
26
Identifying Variants of SARS-CoV-2 in India: What Does It Mean for Prevention and Control of the Pandemic?
28
GAGANDEEP KANG
29 SAT
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MASTERCLASS
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM WORKSHOP
How Ideas and Behaviours Spread Through a Crowd
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EVENT THOMAS ABRAHAM An Early Warning: The Story of SARS in 2003
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
11 FRI
Humans Rights and Knowledge During Crises
2:00 PM-3:00 PM EVENT
Behind the Scenes at CONTAGION
Matter Out of Place
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EVENT
4:00 PM-5:00 PM MASTERCLASS SABRINA SHOLTS
CHRISTOS LYNTERIS
30
SANJOY BHATTACHARYA, SEYE ABIMBOLA AND SHARIFAH SEKALALA
BASSE STTIGEN
SCIENCE GALLERY BENGALURU TEAM
SUN
Information...It's Complicated
DANIEL RICHARDSON
Digital Epidemiology
Google Search Trends As A Tool for Surveillance
TACTICAL TECH
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM WORKSHOP
1:30 PM LECTURE | 3:00 PM TUTORIAL
VIJAY CHANDRU
SHREYA CHAKRABORTY
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
Visualising and Interpreting Mutations
MICHAEL BRESALIER
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
ANAIS TONDEUR
Science and Seeing: The Visual Technology of Contagion in 19th Century India
MEENAKSHI IYER AND SAURABH MAHAJAN
Contagion Across Species: Global Histories and Ecologies of Zoonotic Diseases
COVID-19 Vaccines: Present and Future
The Shape of A Laugh
10:00-12:00 PM WORKSHOP
SUN
The Network Dynamics of Social Change
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
FRI
6
DAMON CENTOLA
WED
DAVID ARNOLD
Plague and the Emergence of Epidemic Photography
Working Together For Public Education On
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
Of The Smithsonian’s Outbreak Exhibit
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL RASAGY SHARMA AND SRIHARSHA DEVULAPALLI
Contagious Cartography
10:00-1:00 PM WORKSHOP
12 SAT
SHREYA CHOWDHURY AND SHREYAS JOSHI Fighting the Pandemic with Swords and Magic
10:00 AM-12:00 PM WORKSHOP
2:00 PM-3:30 PM WORKSHOP
HANNAH CHHOA HOWARD
ARTHUR PRATT in conversation with DAVID HEYMANN
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM WORKSHOP
5:00 PM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
T JAYASHREE in conversation with VIKRAM DOCTOR
GEORGE LOMONOSSOFF
A Human Question
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EVENT
5:00 PM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
MADHAV MARATHE
Survivors
Contagium Vivum Fluidum: Plant Viruses From Adversaries to Allies
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
FRI
SAT
Visualising the Virus: Design As A Medium for Collective Critical Care
CHINMAY TUMBE
2:00 PM-3:30 PM WORKSHOP
21
5
GABRIELA A. Z.
2:00 PM EVENT
Keep Calm and Spot the Design Tricks
MON
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
THEJASWI UDUPA
TACTICAL TECH | LOUISE HISAYASU
17
4:00 PM-5:00 PM EVENT
Contemporary Face of Epidemics and Pandemics: Dealing With the Infodemic
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
SUN
Unpacking COVID-19: From Evidence to Action
Biodiversity, Humans and Pathogens
Knowledge Transmission: A Quiz on Contagions
14
16
AJIT LALVANI, AQSA SHAIKH, GIRIDHARA R BABU, SHAHID JAMEEL, YOGESH KALKONDE AND SARAH IQBAL
UMA RAMAKRISHNAN
ADIA BENTON
CHITRA PATTABIRAMAN
SAT
FRI
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM MASTERCLASS
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM MASTERCLASS
15
4
2020 Vision: Making Sense of 24 X 7 Online News
SUN FRI
10:00 AM WORKSHOP ROBERT GOOD
SYLVIE BRIAND
7
SAURABH NANDEDKAR Creating Computer Viruses
JUNE
Covid-19 Vaccines: Telling the Story
ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE Walkthrough of the Museum and Public Health Visiting Centre at the Robert Koch Institute
Real-Time Contagion Science in the 21st Century: The Role of Data and Computing
GIRISH SHAHANE The Art of Pandemics
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL VISHU GUTTAL
13
CONTAGION in Kannada
4:00 PM LAUNCH EVENT
SUN
ACHAL PRABHALA
AVICHAL MAHAJAN Listening with EARS (Early AI-assisted Response with Social Learning)
12:30 AM-1:30 PM WORKSHOP OWEN GOWER
Everything You Wanted To Know About Non-Western Covid Vaccines But Were Afraid To Ask
The Early History of Vaccination: A Guided Tour of Dr Jenner's House
6:30 PM LECTURE | 8:00 PM TUTORIAL
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EVENT JEREMY FARRAR Science, Innovation and Society: What Have We Learnt From the Covid-19 Pandemic?
6:30 PM LECTURE
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