Episode 115 – Medieval Music and Disease with Karen Cook
Karen Cook (University of Hartford) joins the podcast and speaks about her work on medieval music and potential connections to disease and epidemics.
Infectious Historians
Thanks for stopping by our website! We encourage you to listen to our podcast episodes, where we’ve included further information and readings on the topic. Feel free to check our blog, with posts written by ourselves as well as our guests to the podcast. You can find more information on infamous historical pandemics in the Further Reading tab. We’d love to hear more from you – feedback on previous episodes, suggestions for future episodes, or questions about specific historical pandemics. Let’s stay in touch!
Ana Duggan (McMaster) and Tim Newfield (Georgetown) come on the podcast to speak about smallpox and some of their research on this historical disease.
Recent Episodes
Episode 114 – The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic from a translocal and comparative perspective with John Eicher
John Eicher (Penn State Altoona) joins the Infectious Historians to discuss his project on the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic that examines the pandemic from a translocal and comparative perspective.
Episode 113 – Famine in Lebanon during World War I with Tylor Brand
Tylor Brand (Trinity College Dublin) joins Merle and Lee to discuss his recent book on Famine in Lebanon during World War I.
Episode 112 – The Third Plague Pandemic in Java with Maurits Meerwijk
Maurits Meerwijk (Leiden University) joins the Infectious Historians to discuss his book on the effects of the third plague pandemic in Java in the first half of the 20th century.
Episode 111 – Epidemic Orientalism with Alexandre White
Alexandre White (Johns Hopkins University) comes on the podcast to discuss his recent book on Epidemic Orientalism.
Episode 110 – Late Antique Disasters with Kristina Sessa
Kristina Sessa (Ohio State University) joins the Infectious Historians to discuss her recent work on late antique disasters - including diseases - within the broader context of premodern environmental history.
Episode 109 – Interdisciplinary Studies of Disease before 1000 (a recent conference Merle and Lee attended)
Merle and Lee discuss a recent conference on epidemics in the first millennium of the common era they both participated in at Georgetown University (in Washington DC).
Episode 108 – The Russian Flu with Tom Ewing
Tom Ewing (Virginia Tech) comes on the podcast to discuss his work on the Russian Flu.
Recent Posts
Fever in 2021? Isolation. Fever in 1884? Immolation.
Fever in 2021? Isolation. Fever in 1884? Immolation. Ethan Friedrich / May 17, 2021 Whether at the point of a gun or down the lens of a futuristic thermal camera,…
COVID-19 mortality
The media visibility of COVID-19 mortality Lee Mordechai / April 13, 2020 The current pandemic, like other disasters, reveals much about the workings of different societies. Mortality – the most…
Responses to a Pandemic: Past and Present
Responses to a Pandemic: Past and Present Abigail Agresta / April 9, 2020 “…Some people were of the opinion that a sober and abstemious mode of living considerably reduced the…
Quarantine in the 19th Century Mediterranean and Self-Isolation Today
Quarantine in the 19th Century Mediterranean and Self-Isolation Today Alex Chase-Levenson / April 3, 2020 Quarantines, in response to epidemic disease, were first set up in the wake of…
Gardening, Baking, and Cooking
Gardening, Baking, and Cooking Merle Eisenberg / March 30, 2020 I wanted to start off on a lighter note for this first blog post as a way to introduce you…