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DESCRIPTION:College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Lecture Series: Our Mi
 crobial Lives: A Manifesto Against Eradication\n\n \n\nAward winning autho
 r and historian Dr. Victoria Lee\, Associate Professor\, Department of His
 tory\, Ohio University\, will give the second lecture in the College of Ar
 ts & Sciences Distinguished Lecture series. Her title is “Our Microbial 
 Lives: A Manifesto Against Eradication” on November 19\, 2025. Her lectu
 re considers the growing recognition in the twenty-first century of our de
 pendence on microbes for virtually every aspect of the way we live\, inclu
 ding how we grow our food\, heal our bodies\, and sustain our environment.
  Yet\, microbes are different from other targets of conservation\, such as
  butterflies and elephants: We feel differently about them. Lee traces the
  nature of microbial charisma as it has changed between efforts toward glo
 bal eradication of microbial pathogens such as smallpox in the 1970s and t
 he foregrounding of microbes as the life support system of the planet in c
 limate policy after the 2000s. Drawing on research from her award-winning 
 book\, The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-
 Century Japan (University of Chicago Press\, 2021)\, she explores how huma
 ns have engaged with charismatic microbes in brewing and food production\,
  industrial chemistry\, and drug discovery. Lee invites us to rethink the 
 modern history of human relationships with microbes in light of calls to f
 oster a greater sense of kinship with nonhuman organisms toward a more sus
 tainable future. In particular\, she challenges us to consider alternative
 s to approaches dominated by the goal of absolute control or eradication\,
  in line with the gradual discovery that we live inherently microbial live
 s.
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LOCATION:Walter Hall\, 135
SUMMARY:Our Microbial Lives: A Manifesto Against Eradication
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 to-against-eradication
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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