Dear all
TransAsiaSTS and the Deakin Science and Society Network and are really
pleased to share that Professor Aiwha Ong will be giving a highly topical
seminar on the 24th September, with 4S president Professor Emma Kowal as
discussant.
The eventbrite link
has more info, and you can simply join the youtube live
*Can Science Sovereignty & Science Diplomacy Co-exist?*
Professor Aihwa Ong
Abstract:
The global demand for Covid-19 vaccines has sparked a discourse that
science nationalism is incompatible with "global health." In a time of
pandemic crisis, fears of national sequestration of biotech technologies
are intensifying. I suggest, however, that the biosciences as state project
and as global public good are complexly entangled and politically fraught
for donor and recipient nations alike.
While pandemics are a global health threat, the technology, production,
deployment and acceptance of vaccines are invariably a matter of politics.
I will highlight the gradients between the owning/making and the giving;
the trade-offs for low-income countries; and whether global health entities
Covax & the Quad lessen or produce new segregations in health access.
Here are some of the timezones
1PM - 2:30 PM (AEST/ GMT+10) Melbourne
8:30 AM - 10 AM (GMT + 5:30) Hyderabad
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (GMT + 8) Singapore
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (GMT +12) Wellington
5:00 AM - 6:30 AM Prague
11:00PM - 12:30 AM New York (23 September)
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM San Francisco (23 September)
Warm regards and apologies for any cross-posting
Carina Truyts, on behalf of TransAsiaSTS and the SSN
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