Temple University
Friday, September 30, 9:00 am-6:30 pm

Please join us for the CHAT Premodern Research Forum Symposium. This virtual symposium will explore the wide array of environmental and institutional factors that influenced the way in which plague, in the broadest sense, and other epidemics originated and spread, as well as their intellectual, artistic, demographic and socio-economic consequences at a local and global scale throughout history from Antiquity to the 18th century. How did Pre-Modern societies cope with epidemics that presented challenges and upheavals comparable to the ones we are currently experiencing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic? What can the Pre-Modern past offer to better prepare us for our present and future?

This event is organized by the Pre-Modern Research Forum Group at the Center for the Humanities at Temple and generously sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Temple, Global Studies Program, the Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of Greek and Roman Classics, Department of French, German, Italian, and Slavic, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and the Delaware Valley Medieval Association. Contact Montserrat Piera (montserrat.piera@temple.edu) with questions.