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Health, Environment and Development Seminar Series - Hilary Term 2011
Please Note: This seminar series has finished. For information on our current seminar series please see our Seminar Series.
All seminars will be held in Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House (QEH), Department of International Development, 5-6.30pm on Wednesdays, unless indicated otherwise below. For further information please contact Zinta Zommers or Timmy Bouley
Please join us weekly for an inaugural series of interdisciplinary lectures and discussion on health, environment, and development. All welcome, no RSVP necessary.
Week 1: 5pm, Wednesday 19 January 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
Series introduction and wine reception.
Week 2: 5pm, Wednesday 26 January 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
Ecotoxicity risks during an influenza pandemic.
Dr Andrew Singer, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford.
Week 3: 5pm, Wednesday 2 February 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
To be confirmed.
Week 4: 5pm, Wednesday 9 February 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
Learning interdisciplinarity: from snails through water to ecohealth in east Africa.
Prof. David Bradley, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Week 5: 5pm, Wednesday 16 February 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
The shadow archipelago: interpreting Japanese development.
Prof. Peter Wynn Kirby, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford.
Week 6: 5pm, Wednesday 23 February 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
Africa and cancer.
Prof. David Kerr, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Oxford.
Week 7: 5pm, Wednesday 2 March 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
Meat and dairy consumption: what would be optimal for both health and the environment in developed and developing countries?
Dr Mike Rayner, Department of Public Health, Oxford.
Week 8: 5pm, Wednesday 9 March 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
The politics of asbestos: understandings of risk, disease and protest.
Dr Linda Waldman, Institute of Development Studies.
Week 9: 5pm, Wednesday 16 March 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
Seminar wrap-up, panel discussion and wine reception.
Sponsored by: Department of Public Health, School of Geography and the Environment, and Department of International Development. Additional support from: Oriel College, Oxford.
Convened by: Dr Laura Rival, Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright and Dr Proochista Ariana.