Keynote Lecture: The Inter-Pandemic as a Global Historical Challenge: Plague between 1770-1890
- Date & time
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- Speaker
- Professor Christos LynterisSt Andrews
- Host
- Humanities Divisional Office (Department)
- Location
- Schwarzman Centre - Room 00.056, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6GG, United Kingdom
- Organisation
- Oxford
Topics
About this talk
Critically employing the term "interpandemic", this keynote offers a provocation for reconsidering the history of plague between the Second and the Third Pandemic, and in particular between 1800 and 1890. The lecture will ask how the "interpandemic" may help us reconsider the challenges and limitations not only of pandemic-focused histories of plague but also of pandemic/non-pandemic dichotomies, calling for histories that take the lived temporalities of plague on the ground ethnographically seriously and at the same time renew the global history of plague in this period through two key lenses: that of contagion, and that of endemicity.
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