VeranstaltungsortOnlineVeranstalter Institut für Geographie und RegionalforschungBeschreibungThe Covid-19 pandemic is in its scale and global spread a new experiencefor globalised societies around the world. The global health interventionsundertaken to respond to it have largely been authoritarian-liberal strategiesthat deepen existing social inequity. The novelty of the epidemic holdstrue only for some populations primarily in the Global North, though. Be itSARS in Asia, Zika in Latin America or Ebola in Africa, many societies aroundthe world have long gathered experiences of dealing with deadly infectiousdiseases. Learning how people everywhere can best sustain their livelihoodsas well as their social, economic and political webs of life while maintainigphysical distance is a current as well as future challenge. Health and environmentalactivists worldwide have stressed the importance of respectinghuman rights, securing basic health care, fighting stigma and environmentalexploitation for successfully dealing with Covid-19 globally.This session focuses on the lessons learned from Ebola. Nene MorishoMwanabiningo from the Pole Institute in Goma, Eastern DR Congo, analyseshow the experience with Ebola in the North Kivu province prepared people,local authorities and medical staff for mastering the spread of Covid-19. UliBeisel, a medical anthropologist and human geographer at the University ofBayreuth, reflects on how infectious diseases and their territorialisationsredraw our understanding of human-environment relations. Anne Jung, ahuman rights activist from Medico International in Frankfurt who workedwith grassroots health activists during the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, willfocus on how community health movements can teach us fighting Covid-19as a form of acting in solidarity.Vortragende(r)Vortragende: Uli Beisel (Bayreuth), Anne Jung (medico international) undNene Morisho Mwanabiningo (Goma)Moderation: Stefan Ouma (Bayreuth)KontaktUniv.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Naumann (Matthias.Naumann@aau.at)