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Call for Papers: Pandemics, Public Health, and Statecraft in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
14 October 2021
The conference Pandemics, Public Health, and Statecraft in Twentieth-Century U.S. History. It is being organised by UCL Americas PhD student Stephen Colbrook and it is programmed to take place in July 2022. It will feature leading scholars Professor Gary Gerstle (Cambridge) and Professor Beatrix Hoffman (Northern Illinois University) as keynote speakers. The call for papers and panels is now out. Topics might include (but are not limited to):
- How pandemics have been agents of state development in modern U.S. history.
- Carcerality, penal power, and the history of pandemics.
- Public health and the theory of state power.
- The relationship between pandemics and political debates over universal healthcare.
- Transnational and global responses to pandemic diseases.
- Pandemics, public-private partnerships, and the ‘Associational State’.
- Sexuality, the state, and HIV/AIDS.
- Pandemics, federalism, and the ‘Compound Republic’.
Individual paper proposals and three-person panel proposals are equally welcomed. If submitting an individual paper, please send a brief CV (no more than two pages) and a 150-250-word abstract of the proposed paper. Panel proposals should contain a 200-300-word abstract for the panel and a brief CV (no more than two pages) for each participant and the chair. Please email submissions and enquiries to Stephen Colbrook – stephen.colbrook.19@ucl.ac.uk – by March 31, 2022.
The conference is being planned in principle as an in-person event, to be held at University College London between 3 and 4 July 2022, but we will pivot to a virtual event if the COVID-19 situation deteriorates.
Read the call for papers in full (opens as a Word document)
Links:
Stephen Colbrook | academic profile
Professor Gary Gerstle | academic profile
Professor Beatrix Hoffman | academic profile
stephen.colbrook.19@ucl.ac.uk | e-mail address link
Link to call for papers document in full: