The conference mainly aims at enriching the scholarly debate about comparative East-West perspectives on the responses to infectious diseases, with a special focus on anti-pandemic measures and their justifications. The global nature of the current emergency calls for an interdisciplinary as well as intercultural investigation: the conference brings together scholars from the East and the West currently working on COVID-19 from diverse disciplinary perspectives (philosophy of science, philosophy of politics, philosophy of medicine, among others. This event is part of the interdisciplinary research project “The Moral Roots of Quarantine: a comparative study of the moral and cultural dimension of quarantine in COVID-19 pandemic across East and West” (https://mrq.fah.um.edu.mo)