El Instituto Cervantes aborda la historia de las pandemias en relación con la actual crisis de la COVID-19
The Cervantes Institute in Fez is offering the online conference entitled 'History of Pandemics and COVID-19', which will be given in Spanish with simultaneous translation into Arabic by historian and professor Ana María Carrillo Farga on Tuesday 1 December at 6.30pm.
In this fifth session of the online lecture series 'In the time of COVID-19: medicine, economy and culture', researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Ana María Carrillo Farga will explain how history shows that pandemics favoured advances in public health - such as the development and application of vaccines, the hygienisation of private and public spaces and the international health organisation - and always had an end, after which humanity was able to rise up and rebuild its societies.
The event will take place on December 1st from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm through an online activity using the Zoom platform set up at the Rabat Cervantes Institute, accessible from the entire network of centres of the Maghreb Cervantes Institute. With simultaneous translation into Arabic.
Ana María Carrillo Farga studied a degree in Sociology, and a master's and doctorate in History, all at the UNAM. She has worked in the Department of Public Health at the UNAM's Faculty of Medicine for 35 years, where she is a B professor, and has been coordinator of the Permanent Seminar on the History of Medicine and Public Health in Latin America since its foundation in 2015. She has given undergraduate and postgraduate courses at UNAM and other universities in the country, as well as in government bodies, hospitals, and international organisations such as PAHO and UNICEF, and has been a visiting professor at the National University of Colombia (Bogotá and Medellín), the University of Toronto, the University of Costa Rica, the University of Salamanca, the University of Antioquia and the University of Mar del Plata, and at the Higher Council of Scientific Research in Madrid. She has directed four degree theses, three in History and one in Social Anthropology; and two doctoral theses, one in History and one in Philosophy of Science, and has been a member of several tutorial committees.
She is a member of the Editorial Board of four international journals: Asclepio, Dynamis, Manguinhos and Quipu. She has been awarded several prizes such as the Francisco Javier Clavijero prize for the best doctoral thesis in History, awarded by the National Institute of Anthropology and History; the Essay on the Life and Work of Doctor Casimiro Liceaga, awarded by the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM; the Women's Biography prize, awarded by the Documentation and Women's Studies department for her book Matilde Montoya. The First Mexican Medical Doctor and National Literary Essay Susana San Juan, awarded by the National Institute of Fine Arts and the National Institute of Women for their research on traditional midwives.
Information provided by José Antonio Sierra, advisor of Hispanism
