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Panic: Disease, Crisis, and Empire
10 - 11 December 2012
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PANIC traces histories of collective panics from nineteenth-century Guangdong to twenty-first century New York. Speakers explore ‘panic’ as a ‘disorder’ produced by networks of empire and state-sponsored responses to epidemics. They consider the ‘contagiousness’ of panic in relation to the disruptive feedbacks created by novel technologies of global communication.
When, how, and why did ‘panic’ become a sociological and scientific phenomenon to be managed and prevented? What can the past teach us about disease threats and panics to come?
Programme
| Day 1 |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 |
Coffee
Welcome |
| 10:15 – 12:30 |
Session I
Chair: Dr. Mark Hampton (Lingnan University)
Dr. Kerry Ward (Rice University)
‘Seaborne Scourge: Local Responses to Disease at the Cape from the 18th to 20th Centuries’
Professor John M. Carroll (University of Hong Kong)
‘Slow Burn: Western Concerns about Fire in Pre-Opium War Canton’
Dr. James Beattie (University of Waikato)
‘A “shock which … can scarcely be understood”: Health Panics, Migration, and Plant Exchange between India and Australia Post-1857’
Q&A
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| 12:30 – 14:15 |
Break |
| 14:15 – 16:30 |
Session II
Chair: Professor Frank Dikötter (University of Hong Kong)
Professor David Arnold (University of Warwick)
‘The Dog that Didn’t Bark: Comparing the Plague and Influenza Epidemics in British India,
1896-1919’
Dr. Joao Rangel de Almeida (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
‘Performing Empires in a Sick World: the 1851 International Sanitary Conference and Mediterranean Sovereignty Bargains’
Dr. Robert Peckham (University of Hong Kong)
‘Panic Encabled: Epidemics and the ‘Telegraphic World’ ’
Q&A
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| Day 2 |
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| 09:45 – 10:00 |
Coffee
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| 10:00 – 12:00 |
Session III
10:00am – 12:00pm
Chair: Professor Richard Fielding (University of Hong Kong)
Professor Amy L. Fairchild (Columbia University)
‘Panic’s Progress: From Chaos, to Containment, to Crisis Management’
Dr. Nicholas King (McGill University)
‘The Iconography of New Infectious Threats, 1936-2009’
Q&A |
| 12:00 – 14:15 |
Break |
| 14:15 – 15:15 |
Round Table Discussion |
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