Deakin Burwood Corporate Centre will hold their final CES stream event for the year: Unbounded Bodies, Dynamic Places: Biopolitics in the Preindustrial World<\/b>, with Professor Guy Geltner on Tuesday 6 December 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
OVERVIEW (More details below)<\/strong><\/p>\n Session 1*: Masterclass with Professor Guy Geltner (11:00am – 12:30 pm)<\/b><\/p>\n Catered Lunch (12:30 \u2013 1:30 pm)<\/b><\/p>\n Session 2*: Talk and Film Screening with Professor Guy Geltner On the long history of extraction and the environment, and its relation to questions of geo- and biopower (1:30 \u2013 3:30 pm)<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n *Please note the two sessions can be attended separately. <\/b><\/p>\n Register for in-person <\/b>attendance<\/b><\/span>\u00a0via <\/b>Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n Register for online attendance via Zoom<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ABSTRACT<\/b><\/p>\n Is \u201cpremodern public health\u201d inherently an oxymoron? This lecture shares insights from medical and social historiography to suggest that preventative-health interventions at the population level were both common and complex many centuries before the industrial revolution, centralised bureaucracies and biomedicine, the traditional triggers and enablers of public health. Sedentary and mobile groups across the Galenic world, from Dublin to Delhi, be they urban dwellers or roving armies, engaged in risk management and developed prophylactic programs to address their changing needs. Tracing how these programs were designed and enforced illuminates the negotiation of biopower and the influence of geopower in an era supposedly devoid of either. Moreover, interventions emphasised bodies’ plasticity and the interaction between individual bodies, groups and their moral\/spiritual and material environment in ways that foreshadow recent discoveries in epigenetic research, albeit in a very different natural-philosophical paradigm. Collectively these insights challenge the conventional chronology, geography and periodisation in public health history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SPEAKER BIO<\/b><\/p>\n Guy Geltner is a social and cultural historian of mining, public health, punishment and cities at the University of Amsterdam and Monash University. His most recent work concerns the history of public health and the environmental history of mining in Europe and among Galenic cultures more broadly. His articles, monographs and edited volumes have appeared in English, Italian, Dutch, French, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic, and contain work that has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, Hanadiv Foundation, the Netherlands Scientific Organization and the European Research Council. His current research focus is on premodern healthscaping. It traces preventative health theories, policies and practices among several types of populations rarely celebrated for their hygienic vigilance, including European cities, pilgrims, monasteries, and armies between 1200-1500. Working within the medical and natural[1]philosophical paradigms of their era, these groups fought to prevent and reduce all sorts of pollution, as numerous documents and instruments of practice attest.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ADDITIONAL DETAILS<\/b><\/p>\n Session 1: Masterclass with Professor Guy Geltner (11:00am – 12:30 pm)<\/b><\/p>\n Reading (two articles):<\/p>\n \u2022Geltner, G. (2021):Kinetic health: ecologies and mobilities of prevention in Europe, c. 1100-1600\u00a0<\/a>Mobilities, 16(4), 553-568<\/p>\n \u2022G. Geltner & J. Coomans (2022):\u00a0The healthscaping approach: Toward a global history of early public health<\/a>, DOI: 10.1080\/01615440.2022.2128487<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Session 2: Talk and Film Screening with Professor Guy Geltner On the long history of extraction and the environment, and its relation to questions of geo- and biopower (1:30 \u2013 3:30 pm)<\/b><\/p>\n Building on but distinct from the previous session, we will briefly introduce and later discuss Jean Queyrat’s striking and award-winning documentary La Mine du Diable (2011; English dubbing). It follows a young miner named Eduardo through the hardships of working and living near the ancient silver-extraction site of Potos\u00ed (Cerro Rico\/Sumaq urqu), in present-day Bolivia. The site was allegedly discovered by the Spanish in 1545, just in time to relieve Europe from its silver scarcity and by resorting to extraction techniques and labor regimes that went back centuries, including in terms of their preventative healthcare. Its legacy as the \u201cman-eating mountain\u201d demonstrates the a-synchronicity of modernisation or the morphing manifestations of colonialism, but it also provides a case study in the history of geopower.<\/p>\n Viewing time is 52 minutes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Recommended reading on Potos\u00ed and (Post) Colonial Mining in the Andes<\/b><\/p>\n \u2022Jason Moore, \u201c\u2018This Loft Mountain of Silver Could Conquer the Whole World\u2019: Potos\u00ed and the Political Ecology of Underdevelopment, 1545-1800,\u201d The Journal of Philosophical Economics 4.1 (2010), 58-103, available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022Heidi V. Scott, \u201cThe Contested Spaces of the Subterranean: Colonial Governmentality, Mining and the Mita in Early Spanish Peru,\u201d Journal of Latin American Geography 11 (2012), 5-33<\/p>\n \u2022Allison Margaret Bigelow, \u201cWomen, Men and the Legal Languages of Mining in the Colonial Andes,\u201d Ethnohistory 63 (2016), 351-80<\/p>\n \u2022Rossana Barrag\u00e1n Romano, \u201cDynamics of Continuity and Change: Shifts. In Labour Relations in the Potos\u00ed Mines (1680-1812),\u201d International Review of Social History 61 (2016), 93-114<\/p>\n \u2022Eadem, \u201cPotos\u00ed\u2019s Silver and the Global World of Trade (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries,\u201d in On the Road to Global Labour History, ed. Karl-Heinz Roth (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 61-92<\/p>\n \u2022Eadem, \u201cWorking Silver for the World: Mining Labor and Popular Economy in Colonial Potos\u00ed,\u201d Hispanic American Historical Review 97 (2017), 193-222<\/p>\n \u2022Eadem, \u201cExtractive Economy and Institutions? Technology, Labour, and Land in Potos\u00ed, the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century,\u201d in Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations, ed. Karin Hofmeester and Pim de Zwart (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), 207-38<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deakin Burwood Corporate Centre will hold their final CES stream event for the year: Unbounded Bodies, Dynamic Places: Biopolitics in the Preindustrial World, with Professor Guy Geltner on Tuesday 6 December 2022.\u00a0 OVERVIEW (More details below) Session 1*: Masterclass with … Continue reading