Bio-Lit Talks: 'Novel Monsters: exploring the threat of emerging pathogens and their depiction in contemporary literature'
Katie Hale – author of My Name is Monster – and Professor Birgitta Evengård – senior professor in infectious diseases (Umeå University, Sweden) – will discuss the threat of emerging pathogens and their depiction in contemporary literature. The threat of emerging pathogens is related to the melting of permafrost, which is, in turn, related to climate change. This free event is bound to be of interest to a wide and interdisciplinary audience and those keeping up with COP26-related events.
Bio-Lit Talks
Date: Wednesday 10 November 2021
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Venue: Online event
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Speaker: Katie Hale | Professor Birgitta Evengård
Bio-Lit Talks is an online, four-event series, exploring the interactions and intersections between Biology and Literature.
Structured as a four-event series and focusing on a new topic each week, join us as we delve, digress, and dissect into words of authors and mechanisms of pathogens.
From Scottish texts of the 16th century to contemporary prose, Victorian texts, and Latin American literature - witness easily digestible discussions on the plague, cholera, sexually transmitted infections, and novel pathogens.
Organised by postgraduate students at the University of Glasgow and featuring authors, researchers, and academics, this free event-series is open to Literature lovers, Science enthusiasts and everyone in between!
Wednesday, 10/11/21, 7-8 PM (GMT) - Novel Monsters: exploring the threat of emerging pathogens and their depiction in contemporary literature
In the first event of the series, Katie Hale – author of My Name is Monster – and Professor Birgitta Evengård – senior professor in infectious diseases (Umeå University, Sweden) – will discuss the threat of emerging pathogens and their depiction in contemporary literature. The threat of emerging pathogens is related to the melting of permafrost, which is, in turn, related to climate change.