Call for papers
Panel at the upcoming HSS-ESHS conference in Edinburgh in July 2026.
Dengue fever is the most important mosquito-borne viral disease of the twenty-first century. It is the world’s fastest growing vector-borne disease, and the WHO estimates that around 100 to 400 million infections occur annually, with half the world’s population at risk. Nevertheless, it has until recently received little attention in the health humanities. This neglect parallels contemporary global health discourse, where the disease is often framed as a “emerging infectious disease” that threatens to encroach on Europe with climate change.
This panel will complicate narratives of neglect or emergence by exploring Southeast Asian and Latin American experiences with dengue throughout the twentieth century. Building on Randall Packard’s Fevered Cities (2025), the panel will investigate how dengue was intimately linked to modernisation, nation-building, and social movements in different contexts. We are particularly interested in South-South connections within and between the two regions, and in thinking about how the case of dengue can relocate the origins of global health in the history of medicine. We are also interested in work that studies the links between dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases, such as Zika, yellow fever, chikungunya, or malaria.
If you are interested in participating, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short biography by 19 November to Timothy Sim (tsss2@cam.ac.uk). Feel free to reach out if you have any queries! We would also be interested to hear from scholars working on other Aedes-borne diseases.
Dengue fever is the most important mosquito-borne viral disease of the twenty-first century. It is the world’s fastest growing vector-borne disease, and the WHO estimates that around 100 to 400 million infections occur annually, with half the world’s population at risk. Nevertheless, it has until recently received little attention in the health humanities. This neglect parallels contemporary global health discourse, where the disease is often framed as a “emerging infectious disease” that threatens to encroach on Europe with climate change.
This panel will complicate narratives of neglect or emergence by exploring Southeast Asian and Latin American experiences with dengue throughout the twentieth century. Building on Randall Packard’s Fevered Cities (2025), the panel will investigate how dengue was intimately linked to modernisation, nation-building, and social movements in different contexts. We are particularly interested in South-South connections within and between the two regions, and in thinking about how the case of dengue can relocate the origins of global health in the history of medicine. We are also interested in work that studies the links between dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases, such as Zika, yellow fever, chikungunya, or malaria.
If you are interested in participating, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short biography by 19 November to Timothy Sim (tsss2@cam.ac.uk). Feel free to reach out if you have any queries! We would also be interested to hear from scholars working on other Aedes-borne diseases.
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