Histoire de l'idée de contagion

History of the idea of contagion

Series of lectures



The University of Groningen is hosting a series of lectures from guest speakers on the history of the idea of contagion.



28 February
Samuel Cohn (University of Glasgow): The Idea of Contagion and the Black Death

28 March
Dora Vargha (University of Exeter / Humboldt University): Vertical or Horizontal? Socialist Health, Priorities and Epidemic Management

25 April
Floor Haalboom (Erasmus University): Animal Contagion and the ‘Downside of Progress’

23 May
Clark Lawlor (Northumbria University): Ideas of Contagion and Consumption: From Fashionable Disease to ‘Plague-stricken’ Tuberculosis’

All seminars are from 4-5pm CET and hosted on ZOOM. Please send an email to James Kennaway (james.kennaway@rug.nl) for the link.