DVMA Fall Meeting, Sep. 30, 2022: Epidemics and the Environment in the Pre-Modern World

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?

Session I, 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT Hunter Gardner, Professor of Classics Winston Black, Gatto Chair of Christian Studies Susan Einbinder, Professor of Hebrew & Judaic Studies Elizabeth Duntemann, PhD Candidate, Art History   Session II, 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT Stephen Dueppen, Professor of Anthropology W. George Lovell, FRSC, Professor of Geography Lori Jones, Professor of Medical History     Session III, 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT Kristy Wilson Bowers, Professor of History Gwen Robbins Schug, Professor of Biology Rita Krueger, Professor of History     Response and Q&A, 5:30 - 6:30pm EDT Respondent: Sharon DeWitte Distinguished Professor of Anthropology