Plague and the City: Disease, Epidemic Control and the Environment

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Plague and the City: Disease, Epidemic Control and the Environment

Veranstalter
Dr. des Lukas Engelmann (CRASSH, University of Cambridge); Prof. John Henderson (Birkbeck, University of London); Dr. Christos Lynteris (CRASSH, University of Cambridge)
Veranstaltungsort
CRASSH, University of Cambridge
Ort
Cambridge
Land
United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
05.12.2014 - 06.12.2014
Deadline
01.12.2014
Website
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25544
Von
Lukas Engelmann

Perhaps more than any other disease, bubonic plague has been historically and epidemiologically entangled with the urban environment. Still, even after its genetic identification, its mode of transmission and persistence in the city, its evolving forms remains subject to debate across the humanities and the life sciences. More often than not, understandings of this interrelation are informed by Medieval and Early Modern plague narratives and by colonial representations of urban and housing forms in the course of the Third Plague Pandemic. This conference aims to bring together social scientists, historians, historical geographers, urbanists and epidemiologists to discuss and disentangle the interrelation between bubonic plague (Yersinia pestis) and the urban environment in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Key issues addressed during the conference consist of the following:

Urban and housing forms as catalysts in the transmission and persistence of plague; the problematisation of urban and housing forms as miasmatic or bacteriological sources of plague; plague-prone urban and housing forms in terms of materials, design and crowding; notions and images of plague-prone and plague-resistant urban and housing forms; colonial and postcolonial narratives and images of plague-enabling forms of habitation.

Practices and representations of anti-plague urban measures and policies, (e.g. quarantine, redesign, torching, demolition); the relation of anti-plague urban measures and policies to notions and images of contagion, pollution and contamination in the city; dynamics and tensions of urban and housing reforms aimed at plague containment and prevention in pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial contexts.

Mapping plague in the urban environment; urban planning visualisation methods and its impact on plague-mapping; uses of urban plague-mapping in historical epidemiology.

This is the first annual conference of the Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic project and will reflect, but not be limited to, the Project's focus on visual medical humanities as well as its overall interdisciplinary perspective.

Programm

Friday 5 December

08.45 - 09.00
Registration

09.00 - 09.15
Welcome and opening

9.15 - 11.00
Panel 1 - Housing Plague

Branwyn Poleykett (University of Cambridge) Unbuilding Rabat: Plague and the Ville Nouvelle

John Henderson (Birkbeck, University of London and Wolfson College, Cambridge) 'Filth is the Mother of Corruption': Plague and the Built Environment in Early Modern Florence

Liora Bigon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Bubonic Plague, Colonial Ideologies and Urban Planning Policies: Dakar, Lagos and Kumasi in Comparative View (1910s, 1920s)

​Discussant: Justin Champion (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Chair: Nick Evans (University of Cambridge)

11.00 - 11.15
Coffee and cakes

11.15 - 13:00
Keynote 1

Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University) Visualising Plague in East Asia, 1870s-1910s

Respondant: Andrea Janku (SOAS, University of London)

13.00 - 14.30
Lunch

14.30 - 16.45
Panel 2 - Mapping Plague

Pavla Jirkova (Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Early Modern Forms of Disease Surveillance and Mapping the Plague: Prague and Other Bohemian Towns in 1680

Diego Ramiro Farinas (Spanish National Research Council) Mapping epidemics and mortality by cause of death in a big urban environment: HISDI-MAD Madrid 1890-1935

Neil Cummins (LSE, University of London) Mapping Plague in London 1560-1665

Lukas Engelmann (Cambridge) Photographic Mapping of Plague in the USA

​Discussant: TBC

Chair: Branwyn Poleykett (Cambridge)

16.45 - 17.15
Coffee and cakes

19.00
Dinner

Saturday 6 December

09.15 - 11.00
Panel 3 - Urban Crisis

1. Aditya Sarkar (University of Warwick) Plague and Labour in 1890s Bombay

Maria Antonia Almeida (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) The Plague in Oporto, 1899: Sanitary Measures and the Dispute with Lisbon

Nick Evans (University of Cambridge) Commemorative Albums and the Framing of Disease: the Representation of Plague in Indian Cities

Discussant: Carlo Caduff (King’s College, University of London)

Chair: Lukas Engelmann (University of Cambridge)

11.00 - 11.15
Coffee and cakes

11.15 - 13.00
Keynote 2

Robert Peckham (University of Hong Kong) Plagued in Hong Kong: Disease in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Respondent: Romola Davenport (University of Cambridge)

13.00 - 14.30
Lunch

14.30 - 16.15
Panel 4 - Urban Environment

Christos Lynteris (University of Cambridge) A 'Suitable Soil': Visualising Plague’s Environment During the Third Pandemic

Carole Rawcliffe (University of East Anglia) ‘Great Stenches, Horrible Sights and Deadly Abominations’: Butchery and the Battle against Plague in Late Medieval English Towns

Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London) Plague in Early Modern London: Chronologies, Localities, and Environments

Discussant: Jeremy Boulton (Newcastle University)

Chair: John Henderson (Birkbeck, University of London and Wolfson College, Cambridge)

16.15 - 16.30
Coffee and cakes

16.30 - 17.15
Final comments and Discussion

Samuel Cohn (University of Glasgow)

Chair: Christos Lynteris (University of Cambridge)

17.15
Drinks reception

Kontakt

Lukas Engelmann

CRASSH, University of Cambridge
7 West Road, CB3 9DT, Cambridge, UK

lme35@cam.ac.uk

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