Join us at the University of Manchester on Wednesday 20 May for an interdisciplinary workshop exploring how lifesaving blood-related products, as well as life-threatening parasites, illnesses and iatrogenic blood contaminations, have circulated in different historical and geographical contexts. The event will bring together historians, anthropologists, medical practitioners and others to discuss how blood histories can inform blood futures.
The workshop will centre on the work of Dr Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix), whose work explores the history of blood transfusion during the Vietnam and Algerian wars of independence, raising important questions about the manufacture, storage and circulation of blood in conflict settings.
This event is organised by the Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) team and Dr Laure Humbert, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester. It is funded by CIDRAL – the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and Languages.
Everyone is welcome to attend. For the full programme or with any questions, please contact laure.humbert@manchester.ac.uk and alice.robinson-2@manchester.ac.uk.