doi:10.1051/shsconf/202213600002engMartínez, Francisco JavierOpening address. Matters of Containment. Material approaches to the handling of threats in the modern worldART-2022-133268This paper consists of the text read by the author on 28 May 2020 to serve as inaugural speech for the 3rd International QSN conference “Matter of containment”. After briefly outlining the rationale behind the inception of this meeting, the author justifies the centrality of “containment” for the project of expanding “quarantine studies” from a medical history subject into a truly interdisciplinary area of research. The text ends with a short description of the conference topics and organization.2022http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/12585310.1051/shsconf/202213600002http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/125853oai:zaguan.unizar.es:125853SHS web of conferences 136 (2022), 00002 [4 pp.]byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess