A Conversation on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Public Health in Iran
Panel Discussion
Speakers
- Orkideh Behrouzan, Anthropology, SOAS, University of London
London, UK - Hormoz Ebrahimnejad, History, University of Southampton, UK
- Maziyar Ghiabi, Politics, University of Exeter, UK
When
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020
12:30-2pm
Where
A panel of interdisciplinary scholars will discuss the medical and sociopolitical aspects of the current crisis of Covid-19 in Iran. They will explore similar public health instances in the modern history of Iran. The conversation will situate COVID-19 in the sociohistorical, political, medical, and cultural contexts in which the discipline of public health has emerged and has been interpreted and understood. They will also examine how public imagination and policy are shaped in relation to infectious diseases and what that can teach us about our experience of Covid 19 in present time Iran.