End of the 2015-2016 course. Some key points and events

Last week we held our last POBICS meeting on this 2015-2016. It has been an interesting course, where we have learnt and also carry out a lot of events and things. In order to close down this course, we want to point off some of the main events we have participated this year.

• Writing. We have written several papers, some of them have been published (Biocapitalism and norm suspension, Fear in refugees by a possible outbreak of scabies), other are in reviewing (citizenship and epidemic surveillance, from biopower to kinepower); others are about to be send (ebola and images, new kind of biopolitics in the epidemics realm, syndromic observation) and others have been rejected (epidemiological factor, scenarios as states of emergency). About the last ones, we are reviewing them and we want to re-sent to other journals this fall.
• Congress. We have participated in the ESHHS-CHEIRON congress with a communication about the epidemiological factor (extracted from the rejected paper), and next month, as you know, we will be in the 4S/EASST Congress. Finally, the first days of September we will be in the II International AIBR Anthropology Congress.
• Seminaries. We have went to some of the UAB seminaries, organized by the Social Psychology Deparment, like the Jorge-Castillo Seminary and the Andrés G. Seguel Seminary.
• POBICS web. As we announced, POBICS has a new domain for his web: www.pobics.com
• Topics researched. Epidemics and State of Emergency; Ebola and Images, Big Data in Epidemics; Virtual Platforms to report about epidemics our communicable diseases by lay-people; new kinds of biosurveillance; historical approachs to epidemics; drones and health; fear and panic within epidemics.
• Grants & projects. We have continued with our FPI project, achieved last year. On the other hand, our second application to the FPU grant has been rejected :(

And that is all! We will post again next month at the 4S/EASST Congress. Until then, we will re-posting old post in our social networks.

Have a good summer and see you soon!

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