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The Center for Values Presents: Adia Benton


University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) - Jonsson Performance Hall

Keywords: Ebola, Global Health and Humanitarianism

Nearly 40 years ago, Welsh novelist Raymond Williams penned Keywords, in which he provided an “exploration of the vocabulary of a crucial area of social and cultural discussion, which has been inherited within precise historical and social conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as to continuity.” Following activists who used Williams’ framework to evaluate the shifting meanings of words used in news media, scientific discourse and everyday language to describe the AIDS epidemic in the ‘80s, Dr. Adia Benton will identify some of the keywords associated with the West African Ebola outbreak and their shifting political, social and cultural meanings. She’ll also discuss how the epidemic engenders, reflects and reimagines the inequalities shaping global health and humanitarian practice.

 

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