Benjamin Hegarty

Reality bites: Why the global dengue epidemic matters to Australia The mosquito-borne disease is more than a health emergency – it symbolises the injustice of climate change.

“While very hot regions may see transmission decline, cooler areas such as coastal and northern Australia could become more vulnerable,” writes Philippa Nicole Barr in The Interpreter.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/reality-bites-why-global-dengue-epidemic-matters-australia

16.09.2025 00:25 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Brilliant essay on hepatitis B and its antigen by Michelle Bootcov

24.09.2025 23:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge - Benjamin Hegarty, 2025 Transgender health, and the scientific and medical knowledge underpinning it, has been transformed over the past two decades. Since the 2000s, coalitions of act...

New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

10.09.2025 23:27 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Making Do | Stanford University Press Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been us...

So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...

08.09.2025 06:47 — 👍 11    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Looks fantastic - huge congrats to all!

21.08.2025 09:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Theory as Reproduction: Histories of Doing Feminist Anthropology in Australia The relationship between feminism and anthropology has never been straightforward. The launch in 2020 of Feminist Anthropology, the journal of the Association for Feminist Anthropology section at t…

Thinking about the history of feminist anthropology in Australia, and what it says about the contemporary university. Drawing on papers from a roundtable at ANU in 2019, this @histanthro.org SFS includes six mostly unrecorded accounts of anthropology circa 1970s-80s histanthro.org/notes/theory...

24.07.2025 05:44 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to the Zoonosis as a Historical and Anthropological Question conference @standrewsanthro.bsky.social next week! wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/zoonosis-as-...

12.06.2025 17:01 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Haunting Biology : Book Forum | Medicine Anthropology Theory

Read @mgbevans.bsky.social and my introduction to the forum and the contributions at www.medanthrotheory.org/mat/article/.... “How do we grapple with the ghosts of racial science in contemporary biological research?” @profemmakowal.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

12.06.2025 18:32 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Our wonderful new book forum just out on Emma Kowal’s Haunting Biology in Medicine Anthropology Theory - with smart and generous contributions by Frederic Keck @fredkeck.bsky.social, Ros Williams @ros-w.bsky.social, Beth Greenhough and Trevor Engel

12.06.2025 18:32 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History The history of HIV/AIDS is often told from the Global North, a viewpoint that is naturalized in policies and programs that privilege biomedical models of treatment and prevention. This article expl...

The history of #HIV #AIDS is often told from the Global North. @benjhegarty.bsky.social & co take us to an Indonesian transgender community (waria) to show how ethn. accounts of other HIV/AIDS histories can help us rethink fundamental global health concepts.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

26.02.2025 11:27 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I see there's an opening panel discussion, followed by apéritif! In Paris. Wish I could join them...

12.02.2025 06:00 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Potentially an interesting workshop on 'symbiotic viruses' at the Collège de France, March 4-5 - an excellent line up. I'm keen to learn how they revive an old trope...
#STS #histstm #medanthro #medhum
@benjhegarty.bsky.social @fredkeck.bsky.social

12.02.2025 05:56 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

🦠 Que nous apprennent les virus sur nous-mêmes ?

Les 4 et 5 mars, @benjhegarty.bsky.social (UNSW Syndey, IEA de Paris) et Frédéric Keck (CNRS, LAS) organisent une conférence suivie d'une journée d'étude intitulées "Symbiotic viruses".

4 mars 👉 cutt.ly/yrqmmWab
5 mars 👉 cutt.ly/1rqmmVvg

14.02.2025 15:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Very much looking forward to this conference on Symbiotic Viruses organised by @fredkeck.bsky.social and @benjhegarty.bsky.social on March 4 & 5

01.03.2025 09:42 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Call for Participants: 1-day in-person workshop here in Naarm/Melbourne on "Emergency Climates." Social science, humanities, STS scholars + others - come discuss the meaning of “emergency” today. Organised by me + Andy Lakoff (USC), CfP closes 11 April 2025 (soon!): forms.gle/yRSoxuFYSDA3...

19.03.2025 04:51 — 👍 12    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 2

Thanks Warwick! It was great group of people, it would be have been nice to have you. The opening aperitif and panel at the College de France was very lively. We had some very interesting conversations I’ll be sure to fill you in on…

29.03.2025 08:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At the 6 month mark of my fellowship on symbiotic viruses @ieadeparis.bsky.social - brilliant year so far working with colleagues in Paris in virology, anthropology, health and medicine. My office is located above where Baudelaire lived for a short time. And now it’s springtime in Paris…

29.03.2025 07:54 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0