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SUMMARY:Panel: Uncertain Perspectives and Changing Strategies towards a Pandemic. The Covid-19 Crisis in Tales of the Everyday in Africa
DESCRIPTION:An event organised for the Swiss Society of African Studies by 
 Tobias Haller, Didier Péclard, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Natalie Tarr\n\nWha
 t is a pandemic in African contexts? How does the everyday of citizens look
  like, what are their ideas and how was their day-to-day influenced by meas
 ures imposed from above? Or how is it to live in a place where Corona is de
 nied officially or does not seem to exist? How are the impacts of these mea
 sures perceived in the grey zone between discourses of epidemiological or p
 olitical reason? What local and global disparities does the pandemic narrat
 ive hide or in contrary bring to light? What strategies did people adopt to
  maintain their livelihoods and wellbeing despite the uncertainties surroun
 ding the pandemic and how effective were they? How do citizens react to and
  cope with the security response by public authorities?\n\nThe SSAS will or
 ganize a transdisciplinary event on these issues, providing a platform for 
 diverse speakers presenting and discussing their perspectives on the insecu
 rities, discourses and strategies linked to pandemics and especially the cu
 rrent Covid-19 context: A nurse in a large, state-run hospital in Burkina F
 aso or a researcher in an equally large university in Mozambique, NGO emplo
 yees, a seamstress, workers at WHO, and taxi drivers tell their stories of 
 how they have experienced and maneuvered Covid-19 at work and in their dail
 y lives. They will present their views either in a series of short inputs i
 n the first part or during a round table discussion at the end of the event
 . A detailed program will follow.\n\nThe event is planned in a hybrid forma
 t (both online and in person) to allow colleagues, partners, and stakeholde
 rs based in Africa to actively participate in the presentations, the round-
 table discussion and the plenary session.\n\nTobias Haller, Department of A
 nthropology, University of Bern. Contact: tobias.haller@anthro.unibe.ch\n\n
 Didier Péclard, Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva. Contact: Di
 dier.Peclard@unige.ch\n\nChinwe Ifejika Speranza, Department of Geography, 
 University of Bern. Contact: chinwe.ifejika.speranza@giub.unibe.ch\n\nNatal
 ie Tarr, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss TPH. Contact: 
 natalie.tarr@swisstph.ch\n\n\n\nProgram: Hybrid Workshop COVID-19 in Africa
 \n\nOnline-access: https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/j/62539342117?pwd=Zk9pa1huSWFKR
 zNTN0g1UmhZRXlXQT09\n\n\n\nIntroduction\n\nPresentations (1 hr)\n\n(1) Stat
 ements by local actors in 2 short videos (1 min each – 1 taxi driver, 1 nur
 se – in French)\n\n(2) Eduard Gargallo, PostDoc, Centre of International St
 udies (ISCTE) at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) on COVID 19 Drylands G
 roup (in person)\n\n(3) Input by representatives of Swiss TPH (2 PhD studen
 ts and/or researchers from the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, A
 bidjan; tbd) (online)\n\nCoffee break (30 min)\n\nRound table (45 min)\n\nM
 oderation: Chinwe Ifejika Speranza\n\nBoniface P. Kiteme, PhD, Director of 
 the Center for Training and Integrated Research in ASAL Development (CETRAD
 ), Kenya (online)\n\nCarla Braga, Prof. of Anthropology at Eduardo Mondlane
  University, Mozambique (online)\n\nEduard Gargallo, WHO or researcher work
 ing on global health at GSI, Geneva (tbd; in person)\n\nPlenary discussion 
 (45 min)\n\nRefreshments\n\nGeneral Assembly of the Swiss Society for Afric
 an Studies\n\nThe event is followed at 18:15 by the General Assembly of the
  Swiss Society for African Studies. T\n\nVenue:\n\nUnitobler, Lerchenweg 36
 , 3000 Bern, room F-022\n\nRegistration:\n\nPlease register via the online 
 form https://forms.gle/y9GD56mzauMnAmc68\n\nAccess:\n\nA valid COVID-certif
 icate and proof of identity are required.\n\nThe regulations of the Univers
 ity of Bern https://www.unibe.ch/coronavirus and the Federal Office for Hea
 lth https://www.bag.admin.ch/neues-coronavirus apply.
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