Media and Epidemics
@MEDEP_CHANSE
Media and Epidemics: Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries. @EUCHANSE funded.
Interested in research on #media #epidemics #histsci #litsci or #medhums? Then welcome to Media and Epidemics! Our international, interdisciplinary project seeks to understand the role of media and technologies of communication in the making and management of epidemic outbreaks⬇️
Media and Epidemics project at @BAVS_UK and AVSA this week
A special moment and throwback to my MSt presenting @engfac @UniofOxford on Wilde, ‘moral pestilence’ and epidemic influenza in the 1890s (at Wilde’s university) as part of @MEDEP_CHANSE @EUCHANSE for @BAVS_UK @BAVS_PGs #BAVS2025
A busy conference season continues on the Media and Epidemics project ⬇️
On Thursday at the @BAVS_UK conference I’ll be on the Wilde panel discussing ‘moral pestilence’, miasma, contagion, the 1890s influenza epidemic, and immorality as an ‘Aesthetic condition’ for Wilde, Thomas Mann, and Arthur Symons! Part of the @MEDEP_CHANSE @EUCHANSE project 🦠📖
Find a range of #medhums blog posts below from the @EUCHANSE Media and Epidemics project below ⬇️
You can visit our blog page below for many #openaccess posts about #medhums #histmed #litsci all focused around epidemic disease and media from the nineteenth century to now ⬇️
The Media and Epidemics team are presenting all week (in person and virtually) at the International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Dunedin, NZ. Looking forward to discussing epidemics, technologies of communication, and media from the 19th century to now! #ichst
Our interdisciplinary workshop on Wednesday @unibirmingham @artsatbham will explore how, from the nineteenth century onwards, dubious tales of #disease have been distorted and sensationalised through print and digital media and literature #litsci #hstm #histsci
*Interdisciplinary Disease and Narrative Workshop!* Register below for this in-person event @artsatbham in Arts 103 on Weds 18th June (5.00-7.15pm) hosted by @MEDEP_CHANSE & @19cc_bham to explore sensational tales of disease:
You can visit our blog page below for many #openaccess posts about #medhums #histmed #litsci all focused around epidemic disease and media from the nineteenth century to now ⬇️
You can read the latest Media and Epidemics blog post from Dr Tom White here. White discusses linguistics and conceptual #metaphortheory in the context of the #COVID19 pandemic: mediaepidemics.com/2025/04/28/whe…
Register for our free in-person interdisciplinary event on Disease and Narrative @EDACS_UoB @artsatbham on 18th June 5pm: eventbrite.co.uk/e/disease-and-…
*Interdisciplinary Disease and Narrative Workshop!* Register below for this in-person event @artsatbham in Arts 103 on Weds 18th June (5.00-7.15pm) hosted by @MEDEP_CHANSE & @19cc_bham to explore sensational tales of disease:
The Media and Epidemics UK team @Emily__Vincent and @melissaldickson are presenting their research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century influenza epidemics today and tomorrow at the @TheBSLS online conference #BSLS2025
In our latest Media and Epidemics research seminar, @M_Zdrodowska discusses #lockdown art and portraiture, #COVID19 and #disabilitystudies to examine the concept of ‘shrinkage’ in terms of socio-cultural environments during the COVID-19 pandemic
Join our next Media and Epidemics research seminar on Tuesday 6th May at 10am (Central European Time) when @M_Zdrodowska will discuss ‘The Mediated Practices and Narratives of Care: Artists and Activists Under Lockdown’ about #COVID19 and #disabilitystudies. Scan QR code for link
Thank you to @MEDEP_CHANSE for publishing my piece about Covid, metaphor, and artistic, metaphorically charged responses to illness. So many interesting pieces on their blog!
You can read the latest Media and Epidemics blog post from Dr Tom White here. White discusses linguistics and conceptual #metaphortheory in the context of the #COVID19 pandemic: mediaepidemics.com/2025/04/28/whe…
Our UK Team Principal Investigator @melissaldickson has opened today’s @CN_CSI conference on Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century with an examination of the ‘influenza fiend’, epidemic diseases of the 1890s, & the looming presence of influenza in Dracula #litsci
You can read the latest Media and Epidemics blog post from Dr Tom White here. White discusses linguistics and conceptual #metaphortheory in the context of the #COVID19 pandemic: mediaepidemics.com/2025/04/28/whe…
The Principal Investigator of our UK branch of the Media and Epidemics project @melissaldickson is the opening speaker for this free online event. Register below ⬇️
🦠Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century🔬CNCSI's Free and Online One-Day Interdisciplinary Workshop, 1 May. Registration required. For the full program and to register for the virtual workshop, visit: cn-csi.com/event/contagio…
📢 Registration for the CHANSE Final Conference is now open! 📍Kraków | 8–9 Sept 2025 🔗 chanse.org/chanse-final-c… #EUCHANSE #WeAreCHANSE
Keep an eye out for Media and Epidemics research presentations at a range of global conferences this summer
Excited to share my @MEDEP_CHANSE flu research at these conferences: 🦠👻 @TheBSLS: Spiritualism, Epidemics & Language of Infection 📰 🧪ICHST: Influenza & Alternative Healing in Occult Periodicals 📚@BAVS_UK: Oscar Wilde, Aestheticism & Epidemic Disease at the fin de siècle
Have you visited the open-access Media and Epidemics project blog? We cover pandemics to parasites to examine how epidemic disease narratives have been shaped by media, literature, and politics from the late 19C to today. Visit here: mediaepidemics.com/blog/page/2/ #histmed #hstm #litsci
Considering my research on historic #influenza epidemics for @MEDEP_CHANSE, the launch of the @ukhsa Priority Pathogen tool is essential preparation as (prior to #COVID19) the UK had been planning for an influenza (not coronavirus) pandemic so a broader watchlist is key! ⬇️🦠
Today @UKHSA published a new priority pathogen reference tool to monitor and prioritise the 24 infectious diseases which pose the greatest threat to UK #publichealth ⬇️🦠