Medieval History
Medieval Landscapes of Disease
Kalamazoo, MI -- May 12-15, 2016
Following on a successful session last year, I'm offering another session on Medieval Landscapes of Disease this year at Kalamazoo.
In recognition that diseases are manifestations of their environment, this session seeks papers that place medieval diseases within their environmental context. Just as a seed must be placed in good soil to grow, infectious disease requires a permissive environment to develop into an epidemic (or epizootic) and an ideal environment to bloom into a pandemic or panzootic. I am open to all manner of studies and disciplines that address these issues.
Examples of acceptable topics:
- Historic impacts of epidemics and/or epizootics
- Endemic disease in medieval environments
- Environmental causes of disease such as malnutrition or industrial
pollution related disease
- Health effects of human-animal interactions
- Applications of the One Health Approach to medieval disease
- Archaeological assessments of human health and disease
- Landscape alterations intended to improve human or animal health
- Ecology of the built environment
Abstracts of no more than 300 words and the Participant Information Form should be sent to Michelle Ziegler at [email protected] by September 15. Pre-submission queries are welcome.
The Participant Information Form and additional information be found at
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html .
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Medieval History
CFP: Medieval Landscapes of Disease
Medieval Landscapes of Disease
Kalamazoo, MI -- May 12-15, 2016
Following on a successful session last year, I'm offering another session on Medieval Landscapes of Disease this year at Kalamazoo.
In recognition that diseases are manifestations of their environment, this session seeks papers that place medieval diseases within their environmental context. Just as a seed must be placed in good soil to grow, infectious disease requires a permissive environment to develop into an epidemic (or epizootic) and an ideal environment to bloom into a pandemic or panzootic. I am open to all manner of studies and disciplines that address these issues.
Examples of acceptable topics:
- Historic impacts of epidemics and/or epizootics
- Endemic disease in medieval environments
- Environmental causes of disease such as malnutrition or industrial
pollution related disease
- Health effects of human-animal interactions
- Applications of the One Health Approach to medieval disease
- Archaeological assessments of human health and disease
- Landscape alterations intended to improve human or animal health
- Ecology of the built environment
Abstracts of no more than 300 words and the Participant Information Form should be sent to Michelle Ziegler at [email protected] by September 15. Pre-submission queries are welcome.
The Participant Information Form and additional information be found at
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html .
- Humanities Scholars Study Health, Disease In The Middle Ages
What do the 2012 summer Olympics and medieval scholarship have in common? For both, London will be the site of extraordinary achievements. Monica Green, professor in ASU?s School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, and Rachel Scott, assistant...
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Plague and Famine: An Interdisciplinary View I am organizing a session for the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held from May 13-16, 2010 at Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo on the relationship between plague and famine. Famines...
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NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers: "Disease in the Middle Ages," 5 July to 8 August 2009 Monica Green (Arizona State University) and Walton O. Schalick, III (University of Wisconsin) have received funding from the National Endowment...
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