International Workshop - Breathing Contaminated Air: The History of Face Masks as a Panacea
The international workshop Breathing Contaminated Air: The History of Face Masks as a Panacea aims to reflect on the uses of individual protective masks from a long-term perspective. It tackles various contexts of face-masking, such as work, contagious diseases, and armed conflict, examining efforts to present masking as an effective, sustainable, relevant, and acceptable protective response. More broadly, the workshop aims to investigate to what extent the use of personal protective masks can be a component of nosopolitics (or, politics of the categorization of disease), and, as such, belongs to a more general process of “establishing mechanisms for medical administration, control of health, hygiene or food”.

More information and programme:
www.mfo.ac.uk/event/workshop-breathing-contaminated-air-history-protective-mask-panacea
Date: 21 June 2022, 9:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Trinity 2022)
Venue: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Maison Française d'Oxford
Organisers: Judith Rainhorn (MFO/Paris I), Benoît Pouget (MFO/Sciences Po Aix)
Organiser contact email address: benoit.POUGET@univ-amu.fr
Part of: Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Booking required?: Required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark