CONGRESS CANCELED New Directions in Plague Studies
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The New Directions in Plague Studies will be dealing with the most notorious killer of humans – plague. By bringing together scholars and scientists from different disciplines, this session will aim to fill some important historiographical, intellectual, as well as informational lacunae related to the history of pandemic disease in the medieval world. This is an incredibly fast moving field, with new exciting palaeogenetic data coming up literally every few months. At the same time, humanists are picking these new data, methods and ideas slowly. Conversely, scientists are yet to learn how to contextualize their exciting findings in a wider historical context. To address this gap, and to encourage the dialogue between the two camps, the session will address medieval plague-related topics, such as the archaeology of plague, landscapes of plague, plague demography, genetic change of plague strains – just to name a few. Thus, the session will stress the importance of trans-disciplinary collaboration with palaeo-geneticists and epidemiologists, to advance the shared knowledge of the human past. Phil Slavin
CONGRESS CANCELED New Directions in Plague Studies
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The New Directions in Plague Studies will be dealing with the most notorious killer of humans – plague. By bringing together scholars and scientists from different disciplines, this session will aim to fill some important historiographical, intellectual, as well as informational lacunae related to the history of pandemic disease in the medieval world. This is an incredibly fast moving field, with new exciting palaeogenetic data coming up literally every few months. At the same time, humanists are picking these new data, methods and ideas slowly. Conversely, scientists are yet to learn how to contextualize their exciting findings in a wider historical context. To address this gap, and to encourage the dialogue between the two camps, the session will address medieval plague-related topics, such as the archaeology of plague, landscapes of plague, plague demography, genetic change of plague strains – just to name a few. Thus, the session will stress the importance of trans-disciplinary collaboration with palaeo-geneticists and epidemiologists, to advance the shared knowledge of the human past. Phil Slavin