Rethinking Past Plagues in the Time of Coronavirus
Date and time: May 13, 6:30 pm Turkey Time (UTC+3)
Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul and Columbia Global Centers | Tunis invite you to a live webinar on “Rethinking Past Plagues in the Time of Coronavirus: The Ottoman Experience” with Nükhet Varlık, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University–Newark and the University of South Carolina, in conversation with Tunç Şen, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University.
COVID-19 is the most disruptive pandemic in modern history – more than 4.3 million confirmed cases worldwide, at least 293,000 deaths and economies at a standstill.
How does the current pandemic compare to past plagues?
What have been their legacies?
What lessons can we use from them to understand COVID-19’s potential long term impact?
We will discuss how European exceptionalism, epidemiological orientalism, and triumphalism frame plague studies and public opinion with two leading experts on plagues in the Middle Ages.