Colonialism and Public Health in the Tropics, Canada (June 1999) (fwd)

[Richard Plant]

Hello again:

I know this isn't quite theatre, or is at least only distantly
paratheatrical, the subject area may still be of interest. Hence, I
forward this announcement too.

 Richard Plant
Dept of Drama, Queen's University
and
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, 
University of Toronto

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:29:57 -0400
From: "Michael J. Carley" <mjcarley at aspp.hssfc.ca>
Reply-To: owner-publiforum at magmacom.com
To: publiforum at magma.ca
Subject: Colonialism and Public Health in the Tropics, Canada (June  1999)

From:  Juanita de Barros <jdbarros at yorku.ca>
Dated:  Friday, August 14, 1998

 We are organising a conference at York University around the theme
 "Colonialism and Public Health in the Tropics" to be held June the 18th
 and 19th, 1999. We invite interested individuals to submit a brief
 proposal by the end of September, 1998 (please also send along a
 c.v.)

 We see this conference as contributing to the growing scholarly debate on
 the comparative history of colonialism and public health, one of the
 'tools of empire'. We hope to explore the cultural and ideological
 dimensions of public health in Britain's tropical empire. We hope the
 conference will allow us to examine the variation in public health
 systems within the empire as well addressing such unifying themes as the
 significance of metropolitan concepts of race and the role of the
 metropole as the disseminator of policies and practitioners throughout
 the empire. Perhaps most importantly, we see this conference as providing
 an opportunity to discuss the role of colonised populations in
 constructing health care systems that reflected their own world views and
 resisted metropolitan-derived ideas of racial inferiority.

 We encourage paper proposals addressing the following themes:

 1.  Indigenous Healing Systems and European Health Care.

 2.  Colonial Mental Health and the Construction of Race.

 3.  Public Health, Sanitation, and Urban Spaces.

 4.  Gender and Colonial Health Care Policy.

 5.  Public Health in the Age of Empire.

 We are applying for conference funding from the Social Sciences and
 Humanities Research Council as well as from York University. When we
 receive confirmation of our funding, we hope to be in a position to
 offer assistance with lodging and related expenses. However, at this
 stage we cannot promise financial aid.

 We look forward to your participation. An early response will be
 appreciated. You may reply by e-mail to any of the organisers listed
 below:

 Juanita De Barros--jdbarros at yorku.ca

 Sean Stilwell--stilwell at yorku.ca

 Dawn Harris--dharris at yorku..ca

Michael J. Carley
Director - Directeur
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