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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