1st July 2015 – Wednesday
Morning Sessions
08h30 – 09h00 – Registration and Coffee
09h15 – 09h30 – Workshop Opening ceremony
09h30 – 10h30 – Keynote conference
Sternberg in Havana: Cuba’s Pastorians and the Atlantic Bacteriology of Yellow Fever
Keynote speaker: Steven Palmer, University of Windsor, Canada
Chair: Magali Romero Sá, COC/Fiocruz
Session 1
10h30 – 12h30 – Yellow fever in the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries
Chair: Marcos Cueto, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
10h30 – 10h50 – Elaine LaFay, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Belonging in the Tropical Borderlands: Yellow Fever, Environment, and Nationalism in Florida, 1825-1860
10h50 – 11h10 – Tara Inniss, Department of History and Philosophy, University of West Indies, Trinidad e Tobago
Shifting Diagnoses: Epidemic Disease and Race-based Medicine in the British Caribbean
11h10 – 11h30 – Talia Rebeca Haro Barón, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
The policies to fight yellow fever in Guatemala in the beginning of the 20th century
11h30 – 11h50 – Robert Ponge and Vanessa Costa e Silva Schmitt, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
Notes on the presence of yellow fever in Riccardo D’Elia memories, an Italian physician in Brazil Republic
11h50– 12h10 – Daniele Cozzoli, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
From Montevideo to Rome: Giuseppe Sanarelli (1864-1940 and the making of the Italian Tropical Medicine
12h10 – 12h30 – Discussion
12h30 – 14h00 – Lunch
Afternoon Session
Session 2
14h00 – 17h00 – Yellow Fever, virus, vaccine and therapeutics
Chair: André Felipe Cândido da Silva, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
14h00 – 14h20 – Francisco Javier Martínez-Antonio, CNRS – Université Paris Diderot, France
’Freezing’ the island: the ‘polar chamber’, Spanish politics and yellow fever research in late 19th century Cuba
14h20 – 14h40 – Patricia Palma, University of da California, Davis, USA
The Yellow Fever Epidemic and the rise of Popular Medicine in Peru: Chinese Herbal Medicine (1868-80)
14h40 – 15h00 – Rodrigo Cesar da Silva Magalhães, Colégio Pedro II, Rio de Janeiro
The Rockefeller Foundation’s Worldwide Anti-Yellow Fever Campaign and the production of medical and scientific knowledge about the disease in the 1920s
15h00 – 15h20 – Jaime Larry Benchimol, COC/Fiocruz
Yellow fever and its vaccines: instruments to combat a tropical scourge and to modernize the Brazilian Social Formation
15h20 – 16h00 – Debbie MacCollin, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
The yellow Fever Outbreak of 1954 and the rise of the Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory
16h00 – 16h20 – Discussion
16h20 – 18h00 – Cocktail with book launch
Opening of Exhibition about Tropical Diseases developed by the University of York
2nd July 2015 – Thursday
Morning Sessions
09h30 – 10h30 – Lecture
Prelude to Rockefeller: Health problems in Trinidad and Tobago 1900-1930
Lecturer: Rita Pemberton, University of West Indies, Trinidad Tobago
Chair: Henrice Altkin, Universidade de York, England
Session 3
10h30 – 12h10 – Circulation, trade, diseases and epidemics
Chair: Rômulo Andrade, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
10h30 – 10h50 – Beau Gaitors e Christopher Willoughby, University of Tulane, New Orleans, USA
An Epidemic of Trade: Disease and Commerce in Post-Independence Veracruz
10:50 – 11h10 – Marcelo Luiz Freitas Moreira e Livia da Silva Nascente, Instituto Vital Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Vital Brazil and the arrival of bubonic plague in the Port of Santos
11h10 – 11h30 – Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
Biotrade activities into the Latin America market: the branches of Bheringwerk and the market of biological products in the 1930s
11h30 – 11h50 – Sabine Clarke, University of York, England
Mobility, networks, and modernity: pharmaceutical knowledge at the Colonial Microbiological Research Institute, Trinidad, after 1945
11h50 – 12h10 – Discussion
12h10 – 13h30 – Lunch
Afternoon Sessions
Session 4
13h30 – 15h10 – Circulation, knowledge and technics
Chair: Tânia Pimenta, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
13h30 – 13h50 – Rildo Bento de Souza, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
The asylum diseases: the popular medicine and medical practices in Goiás (1909-1946)
13h50 – 14h10 – Cristina de Cássia Pereira Moraes e Thiago Cancelier Dias, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
Managing Empires, floras and pharmacies to cure Morbo Gallic: The Military Hospital in Guayazes in the late eighteenth century
14h10 – 14h30 – Livia da Silva Nascente – Instituto Vital Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Vital Brazil and the project The defense against ophidism: the traditional knowledge according to the Brazilian sanitation movement in the early twentieth century
14h30 – 14h50 – Nadja Paraense dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Hookworm and a popular nineteenth-century medicine
14h50 – 15h10 – Discussion
15h10 – 15h20 – Break
Session 5
15h20 – 16h40 – Tropical diseases and sanitation
Chair: Kaori Kodama, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
15h20 – 15h40 – Rômulo de Paula Andrade, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
The health during Brazil´s Development Programme: the Malaria Eradication Campaign in the Amazon
15h40 – 16h00 – Elis Regina Corrêa Vieira, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
Local press in Para State, Malaria and the campaigns for rural sanitation
16h00 – 16h20 – André Felipe Cândido da Silva e Dominichi Miranda de Sá, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
Ecology, disease and populations in the tropics: Harald Sioli and schistosomiasis in the Amazon in the 1950s
16h20 – 16h40 – Antony Dalziel McNeil Stewart, Newcastle University, England
An Imperial Laboratory: The Investigation and Treatment of Treponematoses in Occupied Haiti, 1915-1934
16h40 – 17h00 – Urmi Engineer, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Black Resistance: Ideologies of Race and Immunity in the Nineteenth-Century Greater Gulf Coast and Caribbean
17h00-17h20 – Discussion
19h00 – Conference Dinner
3rd July 2015 – Friday
Morning Sessions
9h30 – 10h10 – Lecture
Tropical Medicine, International Health and the African office of the World Health Organization, 1950s
Lecturer: Marcos Cueto, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
Chair: Jaime Benchimol, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
Session 6
10h20 – 12h00 – Tropical Diseases and the international health organisations
Chair: Gilberto Hochman, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
10h20 – 10h40 – Henrice Altkin, University of York, England
A Black Scourge?: Race and the Rockefeller’s Tuberculosis Commission in Interwar Jamaica
10h40 – 11h00 – Ana Paula Korndorfer, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Rio Grande do Sul
From international to local: cooperation between the IHB / FR and the government of Rio Grande do Sul to combat hookworm and its consequences (1919-1929)
11h00 – 11h20 – Maria Gabriela Silva Martins da Cunha Marinho, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), São Paulo
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Chenopodium oil, treatment of tropical diseases, controversies about drugs and therapeutics
11h20 – 11h40 – Oscar Gallo Vélez, Jorge, Márquez Valderrama e Victoria Estrada Orrego, Procircas, Universidad Nacional da Colombia
Tropical diseases or occupational diseases: the case of tropical anemia in Colombia, 1900-1930
11h40 – 12h00 – Discussion
12h00 – 13h30– Lunch
Afternoon Session
Session 7
13h30 – 14h00 – Tropical diseases and scientific and medical network
Chair: Cristiana Facchinetti, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
14h00 – 14h20 – Tamara Rangel Vieira, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
“Megaesophagus by Chagas disease”: contribution from doctors in Central Brazil in defining a new clinical form of trypanosomiasis
14h20 – 14h40 – Denis Guedes Jogas Junior, Casa de Oswaldo Ruz, Fiocruz
Tropics, science and leishmaniasis: an analysis of circulation of knowledge, specimens and asymmetries
14h40 – 15h00 – Magali Romero Sá, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz | Marilza Herzog, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
Onchocerciasis in the Americas: origin and dissemination
15h00 – 15h20 – Rafael Leite Mantovani, University of São Paulo (USP)
The Brazilian interpretation of the European sanitary movement at the beginning of the 19th Century
15h20 – 15h40 – Roseli Martins Tristão Maciel – Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG)
Failures in public policy for the control of endemic leprosy in Brazil
15h40 – 16h00 – Bruna de Paula Fonseca e Fonseca, Bio-Manguinhos, Fiocruz and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) | Ricardo Barros Sampaio, Diretoria Regional de Brasília, Fiocruz and Universidade de Brasília (UnB) | Marcus Vinicius Silva, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
The research on tuberculosis in Brazil: a network approach to topics of research (1994-2013)
16h00 – 16h20 – Discussion
16h20 – 16h30 – Sanjoy Bhattacharya – Final Considerations
