Speculative Immunities: Co-fabulating Vaccine Futures
Thursday 21 May 2026, 9am - 5pm
Seminar Room 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Closed workshop
What will immunity look like in 2050?
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together participants from immunology, vaccinology, anthropology, literary studies, design, and economic sociology to collectively imagine immunological futures beyond the narrow technocratic frameworks that currently dominate pandemic governance. The workshop takes seriously the plasticity of the future: exploring how distributed vaccine manufacturing, shifting R&D ecologies, and new governance models might open pathways toward repair rather than extraction, redistribution rather than emergency exceptionalism. Participants will each present a speculative artefact — short fiction, visual work, regulatory fanfiction, object prototype, or performance — articulating an imagined immune future and generating cross-disciplinary dialogue designed to prompt conceptual reframing and methodological experimentation.
This is a closed workshop.
