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OPENING
17:30
Reception and registration
18:15
Welcome address: Charlotte Schubert (Leipzig)
18:25
Greetings: Jürgen Paul (Vice-Speaker, Collaborative Research Centre Difference and Integration, Halle)
18:35
Opening lecture: Vivian Nutton (London)
Plague, Epidemic Disease, and the Other in Classical Antiquity
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09:00
Introductory remarks: Ortrun Riha (Leipzig)
PANEL 1: CONTAGION AND SPACES
Chair: Nicola Di Cosmo (Princeton, N.J.)
09:15
Arne C. Rodloff (Leipzig)
Mikrobiologische, epidemiologische und immunologische Grundlagen der Pest
10:00
Ruth I. Meserve (Bloomington, Ind.)
Traditional Disease Boundaries and Nomadic Space in Central Eurasia: The Search for Order
10:45
Break
11:15
Kurt Franz (Halle)
Well off in the Wilderness? Muslim Appraisals of Bedouin Life at Times of Plague
12:00
Yaron Ayalon (Norman, Okla.)
When Nomads Meet Urbanites: The Outskirts of Ottoman Cities as a Venue for the Spread of Epidemic Diseases
12:45
Lunch
PANEL 2: EXPLANATIONS AND IMAGINATIONS
Chair: Josef van Ess (Tübingen)
14:30
Charlotte Schubert (Leipzig)
Griechen, Nomaden und Seuchen: Eine verlorene Spur?
15:15
Mischa Meier (Tübingen)
Die "Justinianische Pest": Mentalitätsgeschichtliche Auswirkungen einer Pandemie
16:00
Break
16:30
Karl-Heinz Leven (Erlangen)
Die Tollwut der Barbaren: Über wahre und falsche Ursachen von Seuchen bei byzantinischen Geschichtsschreibern
PUBLIC LECTURE
Special venue: Alter Senatssaal, Ritterstraße 26
18:15
Klaus Bergdolt (Cologne):
Die Pest 1348 – Das Ende des europäischen Mittelalters
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PANEL 3: LIVELIHOODS AND MOBILITY
Chair: Josef van Ess (Tübingen)
09:00
Stuart J. Borsch (Worcester, Mass.)
Epidemic and Landholding Structure in Egypt and England
09:45
Ortrun Riha (Leipzig)
Flieh weit und schnell: Medizinische Empfehlungen in mittelalterlichen Pesttraktaten
10:30
break
11:00
Sarah Büssow-Schmitz (Halle)
"The Disease Killed the One Who Stayed as well as the One That Moved": Theories, Perceptions and Practices Concerning the Plague in Mamluk Chronicles
11:45
Boaz Shoshan (Beer-Sheva)
Fellahin and Bedouin: The Aftermath of the Black Death in Egypt
12:30
Lunch
PANEL 4: TREATMENT AND TRANSFORMATION
Chair: Nicola Di Cosmo (Princeton, N.J.)
14:00
Paul D. Buell (Berlin)
Qubilai and the Rats
14:45
Uli Schamiloglu (Madison, Wisc.)
The Black Death and the Transformation in the Nomadic-Sedentary Relationship in Western Eurasia in the 13th–16th Centuries
15:30
break
DISCUSSION
16:00
General response: Nicola Di Cosmo (Princeton, N.J.)
16:15
General response: Josef van Ess (Tübingen)
16:30
Discussion
ca. 17:30
Concluding address: Kurt Franz (Halle)