La dimension sociale des crises sanitaires à travers l’Histoire

The social dimension of sanitary crises throughout History
 

International colloquium
University of Lleida, 30-31 October 2024.
On-line platform
 

Organised within the framework of the project The social dimension of
health crises in Lleida and its region in the European context: from the
Black Death to COVID-19 (IlerCriSan), 2023CRINDESTABC

Wednesday 30th October
9:00-9:45: Welcome by Natàlia Alonso Martínez, Vice President for research of the University of Lleida, Eva Martin-Fuentes, Deputy director of Indest, and Pere Benito Monclús from the Department of Geography, History and History of Art of the University of Lleida.

9:45-10:15 «Timor mortis, conturbat me». Una mirada a les epidèmies des de la pintura medieval” by Antoni Conejo da Pena (Universitat de Barcelona).

10:15-10:45: Els escrits mèdics sobre la pesta a l’època medieval by Lluís Cifuentes Comamala (Universitat de Barcelona).

10:45-11:15 Debate

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:00 El hospital de peste de Lisboa (séc. XVI): contribuiciones arquitectónicas y urbanísticas by Joana Balsa de Pinho (Universidade de Lisboa).

12:00:12:30 Principales epidemias y proceso de medicalización en la ciudad de Tarragona durante el primer tercio del siglo XIX by Josep Barceló-Prats (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) & Neus Sánchez-Pié (Arxiu Històric de l'Hospital de Sant Pau i Santa Tecla).

12:30-13:00 Debate
 

13:00-15:00 Break

15:00-15:30 Municipalities facing the plague: Algemesí, Alzira and Castelló de la Ribera (Kingdom of Valencia) in 1647-1648 by Carmel Ferragud Domingo (Universitat de València).

15:30-16:00 The fight against danger and ‘evil’: social stigma and discourse associations in the response to the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Spain by Pau Font Masdeu (Universitat de Girona).

16:00-16:30 La regulación constitucional de las crisis sanitarias en México y España desde el siglo XX al siglo XXI by Manuel Cabanas Veiga (Universitat de Lleida).

 

Thursday 31st October

9:15-10:15 Fever. Global Histories of (a) Disease, 1760-1830. Keynote lecture by Stefanie Gänger Universität Heidelberg). 

10:15-45 Public Health, Poverty and Migration in the Low Countries, 1400-1550 by Janna Coomans (Utrecht University). 

 

10:45-11:45 Debate

11:15-11:45 Break

11:45-12:15 Femmes contagieuses : sur quelques figures féminines en temps d’épidémies (17c-18c) by Fleur Beauvieux Institut Pasteur, Paris). 

12:15-45 Beyond the Perfect Storm – The (social) history of HIV-2 virus by Jorge Varanda University Coimbra). 

12:45-13:15 Debate

13:15-14:30 Break

14:30-15:00 Impact of Climate Variability on Epidemics in Late Medieval Provence: Current State Knowledge and Perspectives Research by Nicolas Maughan (Aix-Marseille Université). 

15:00-30 The importance of epidemics and diseases in the formation contemporary urbanism by Joan Ganau Casas (Universitat de Lleida).

15:30-16:00 The social dimension of anti-contagion measures in LateMedieval Crown of Aragon by Albert Reixach Sala & Guillem Roca Cabau(Universitat de Lleida).

16:00-16:30 Debate

16:30-17:00 Concluding remarks