The online meeting will take place on Monday 24th April at 10-12 (Brazil), 14-16 (Czech), 15-17 (Namibia), 16-18 (Uganda).

Link for the online meeting:

Recommended reading:

Blue, Gwendolyn and Rock, Melanie. 2020. Genomic trans-biopolitics: Why more-than-human geography is critical amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Dialogues in Human Geography 10(2): 287–290.

Calkins, Sandra. 2019. Bananas, Humanitarian Biotech, and Human-Plant Histories in Uganda. Medicine Anthropology Theory 6(3): 29–53.

Further reading:

To be indicated during the lecture

Additional activity:

Reflect on how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the environment around you, contribute these ideas to an online collective mindmap. This will be created on https://www.mindmeister.com/ and shared with the group for collaborative editing, feel free to add images and links to other media forms. 

Step for the final works:

Internal conversation, decision and elaboration of the mediums (text, images, videos, audios, etc.) for the final works by the working groups and subsequent submission to the coordinators of the course. Also this task is the responsibility of each group in autonomy.