Pandemic Perspectives seminars
Pandemic Perspectives is an open interdisciplinary community with the aim of integrating the specialisms from a wide range of scholarly fields to interpret and analyse the unique significance of the pandemic in contemporary history.
The series will bring you pioneering voices from across the globe with lectures on diverse topics ranging from the Black Death to the Southeast Asian experience of COVID-19 to the implications of the pandemic for Posthumanist theory.
Details
Talks begin at 6:30pm GMT and will be recorded and posted on our YouTube page.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Register |
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| Thu 31 Mar |
Frank Uekötter (University of Birmingham) |
'2022 COVID-19 and the Case for a New World History' | Register |
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Thu 7 Apr |
Guy Geltner (Monash University) | 'The Disruptive Power of Pandemics in Public Health History' | Register |
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Fri 29 Apr |
Claire Colebrook (Penn State University) | 'The Future is All Before Us: How to Live, Think and Read in the Face of Destiny' | Register |
| Thu 5 May | Melissa Tustin-Gore (University of Edinburgh) |
'2022 The Pandemic Experience in Southeast Asia' |
Register |
| Fri 13 May | Sharon DeWitte (University of South Carolina) |
'2022 Social Inequality and Pandemic Mortality in the Black Death' |
Register |
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27th May |
Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University) | '“While you were at Home, Confined”: A Parasitology' | Register |
Further information
You can find out more about Pandemic Perspectives on this website, pandemic-perspectives-uk.com and follow them on Twitter at @Pandemic_Persp