Christos Lynteris
@visualplague
Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
Very interesting article by Chris K. K. Tan and Xinyue Qinliu on "Doing Death's Dirty Work: Spiritual Pollution among Morticians in Southern China" in new Social Analysis issue (OA) www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
So great to see @po-dittmar.bsky.social's ground-breaking book on the "invention of the animal" in the Middle Ages featured in @lemonde.fr - a true masterpiece in historical anthropology www.lemonde.fr/livres/artic...
Spotted this at #eshs-hss in Edinburgh and very much looking forward to reading it - The Leopard in the Garden: Animal and Human Lives in Paris at the First Public Zoo of the Modern Era, by Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Are animals responsible for pandemics? A brilliant graphic novel by @fredkeck.bsky.social & Héloïse Chochois uses the "animal trials" trope to critically engage with narratives of epidemic blame - Les Animaux malades des humains: Au procès des zoonoses www.editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series/se...
Really sad to hear of the death of Andrew (Andy) Lakoff. His work on pandemic preparedness was pivotal for a whole generation of anthropologists of medicine in providing crucial new ways of understanding the biopolitics of our times & envisioning pathways for Global Health beyond biosecurity
Looking forward to welcoming the speakers, discussants and audience of the Endemic Transformations workshop tomorrow morning @standrewsanthro.bsky.social for 2 days of discussion on how approaches to diseases as "endemics" has transformed social and multispecies relations since the 19th century
Looking forward to reading Citizen Beast: The Place of Animals in the Roman Empire, by Martin Devecka, published @hopkinspress.bsky.social this September www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Looking forward to participating in this event on rethinking the history of plague @upcite.bsky.social alongside @fredkeck.bsky.social, Patrick Boucheron, Raphaëlle Guidée & François Zanetti on Sept. 15 phi.phisoc.ulb.be/repenser-la-...
Looking forward to the publication of Didier Fassin's book on Foucault @edladecouverte.bsky.social Ainsi pensait Michel Foucault: Enquête sur une philosophie pour notre temps www.editionsladecouverte.fr/ainsi_pensai...
Book review of Peter Szendy's thought-provoking For an Ecology of Images @versobooks.bsky.social @criticalinquiry.bsky.social - "An ecology, then, for Szendy, expands our collective horizon for considering alternative timescales" criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/kyle_sossamo...
Delighted to hear I have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu #ERCAdG for the 5-year research project “Zoonosis Before Bacteriology” @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @standrewsanthro.bsky.social
A very interesting article by Théophile Robert-Rimsky on human-bird relations: "Avian everyday activism: Invasion, presence, occupation" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A great new article by Caroline Mburu on "Territories of coexistence: rodents, risk and disease in a dynamic ecosystem in rural Tanzania" @bmj.com Medical Humanities mh.bmj.com/content/earl...
Very happy to be sharing this conversation about my new book "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" @hopkinspress.bsky.social with Miranda Melcher on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/how-plague-g...
An important "Contextual Note on the Ebola Bundibugyo Outbreak in Ituri (2026)" by Jules Villa @pasteur.fr et al - just published hal.science/hal-05632368
Very much looking forward to the publication of the new biography of Marc Bloch @ Gallimard this week www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/ma...
It's been great reading the new, thought-provoking issue of Critique, "Exposer la nature", edited by @fredkeck.bsky.social www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Critiq...
A rare opportunity to watch Raymond Rajaonarivelo's 1988 film Tabataba - a key work in postcolonial cinematography about the 1947 uprising against French colonialism in Madagascar and its brutal repression www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/films/dra...
From the Diamond Princess during Covid to the current hantavirus crisis on the MV Hondius, cruise ships have been attracting attention as epidemic percolators. Yet concerns date back to 1901 when the cruise ship Sénégal got plague, with inventors and politicians like Gaumont & Poincaré quarantined
Delighted to have my author's copies of How Plague Got Rats! A big thanks to series editors @steerewilliams.bsky.social @doravargha.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social & to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this project! Book publ. May 19 & OA www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
New article by Almudena Mari-Saez & Frédéric Le Marcis @medanthropology.bsky.social: Between the Extraordinary and the Everyday: Embodied Memory & Epidemic Preparedness During Ebola Outbreaks in Guinea - a vital read for anyone interested in Global Health www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
1 week left for our CFP on the Colonial Medical Ennui - workshop held August 27-28, St Andrews
Looking forward to presenting some preliminary research on Marcel Baltazard's plague mission to Mauritania at the c19c conference on "collaborations" next week - linking this back to questions re the legacy of late 19th C. Pasteurian scientific collaboration
Looking forward to the new issue of Critique on the topic "Exposer la nature" with articles by @fredkeck.bsky.social, Nélia Dias and many others www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Critiq...
20 days left: CFP Colonial Medical Ennui Workshop @standrewsanthro.bsky.social www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthr...
A brilliant OA article by @manoncwilliams.bsky.social in BJHS @bshsnews.bsky.social on: Diagnosing the dead: post-mortem examinations and medical ship culture in the Royal Navy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Great to see this brilliant OA special issue of Social Analysis @berghahnbooks.bsky.social on the topic of "Plastic Time" published by @robotforaday.bsky.social & Patrick O'Hare @standrewsanthro.bsky.social www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
Very much looking forward to reading @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social's book Colonial Negatives: Picturing History and Identity in Morocco www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
It is 50 years since the 1976 coup d'état in Argentina that installed one of the most brutal dictatorships in Latin America. Today we remember the thousands assassinated, tortured and disappeared - Nunca Más!