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SUMMARY:Shielding Power: Early Formulations of the Immune Self
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DESCRIPTION:This event offers a sociopolitical perspective to histories of
  immunology by tracing early discourses of immunity as they circulated bey
 ond scientific developments and into public culture. Drawing on newspaper 
 advertisements from Britain\, Ireland\, Australia\, and New Zealand in the
  late 19th and early 20th centuries\, I identify earlier conceptualization
 s of immunity within interconnected colonial and cultural contexts shaped 
 by the British Empire and outline how immunitary logics of individualism\,
  protection\, risk management\, labour\, and power were formed within mark
 eting media. Advertisements framed immunity as a purchasable and personal 
 asset\, offering security against modern anxieties such as disease\, envir
 onmental instability\, social uncertainty\, and the loss of power. Foregro
 unding immunity as an individual responsibility and commercial ideal\, the
 se narratives emphasized isolation and defence rather than interdependence
 \, embedding conservative immunitary logics that prioritized the individua
 l over the group\, sought to retain power\, and presented the nonhuman as 
 threat.
LAST-MODIFIED:20260612T092930Z
LOCATION:Schwarzman Centre - Room 00.063\, Room 00.063 Schwarzman Centre R
 adcliffe Observatory Quarter\, Woodstock Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6GG U
 nited Kingdom
SPEAKER:Maebh Long (University of Otago)\, Ann Kelly (Anthropology\, Unive
 rsity of Oxford)\, Rachel Hindmarsh (University of Oxford)\, Sally Frampto
 n (University of Oxford)
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