History and Historians in Response to COVID-19: Plagues Past and Present

Virtual AHA | AHA Colloquium | December 4, 2020

History and Historians in Response to COVID-19: Plagues Past and Present
Chair: Peter Baldwin, University of California, Los Angeles
Panel: Mariola Espinosa, University of Iowa
Evelynn Hammonds Harvard University
Mark Harrison, Oxford University
Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University

The COVID-19 pandemic is but the latest crisis in a long history of human societies confronting infectious disease. This roundtable looks to put the current experience into its larger historical context and to open conversation about how history can help us understand and make informed decisions in the present.

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