Beskrivning

Join us at Contrast Public House for two evenings of pub science talks and quizzes! Each night, two researchers from biology, astronomy, psychology, and more, will share their stories and insights in a casual setting. You can also win fun prizes in our scientific quizzes.

Pint of Science is an annual science festival that takes place every May worldwide. Our goal is to bring scientists to local venues to share the latest happenings in research. This is the perfect opportunity to meet people shaping tomorrow's science!

First talk:
The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room

Mirko Pasquini (Assistant Professor)

Who is to be attended first? And how should such a decision be made? My work ethnographically explores everyday life of one of the thickest places in contemporary societies: the Emergency Room (ER), where aging, economic precarity, draconian migration laws, hospital overcrowding, and life and death, intersect daily. There is more than medical urgency at stake in the ER, where mistrust of medical authority is fueled and violence often sparks. I analyze the making of urgency, named triage, not as a neutral medical way of sorting, but as a practice that actively creates difference through economies of attention. The Negotiation of Urgency illustrates both the limits of triage, as a medical and social practice, and how those limits can spark improvisation and creative reinvention of more equitable ways of care delivery.

Stay for the quiz, preparations start right after the first talk of the night!

Medverkande

Mirko Pasquini (Assistant Professor)