The RSA-Fordham Symposium “Plagues, Pandemics, and Outbreaks of Disease in History” included a roundtable that brought together three scholars to share their thoughts on approaching, exploring, and teaching disease during the pandemic and beyond. Their discussion, moderated by Barbara Mundy (Fordham, Art History), was informed by pre-circulated materials linked below.
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Chaos and Order in Times of Plague
Colin Rose
Historians are obviously interested in epidemics and pandemics. As disruptions to societies’ ordinary processes, episodes of mass illness and other natural, or human, disasters offer
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Epidemic Disease and Indigenous Survival in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Lisa Sousa
In the 1570s, a Nahua artist depicted the first smallpox epidemic that swept central Mexico in 1520, shortly after the arrival of Spaniards to the
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Times of Plague
Hannah Marcus
As I have been writing about past and present epidemics I have noticed that I repeatedly use the phrase “times of plague.” In one sense,
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