A New Social History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals Festival

Day 2: Panel 3—Decolonizing Drugs from the South

Panel Chair: Maziyar Ghiabi, University of Exeter

Presenters:

• Thembisa Waetjen, University of Johannesburg: “Apartheid’s War on Cannabis”
• Athos Vieira, IESP/UERJ, “Cocaine and the Night: The Social Life of a Drug in Rio de Janeiro during Brazil’s First Republic, 1885–1920”
• María-Clara Torres, Stony Brook University: “The Twilight and Revival of Coca: Northern Cauca, Colombia, 1950s–1980s”

The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy and the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy are pleased to host the virtual festival, A New Social History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals. This five-day interdisciplinary Festival aims to generate a discussion related to the under-explored social history of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals.

The Festival will be a free online streaming event running from Thursday, September 24 through Tuesday, September 29, 2020.

Registration is required at https://bit.ly/3buR3cA