- Plagues and Contagion

Catalog description

An interdisciplinary history of plagues and contagion, with an emphasis on how people in the past reacted to, dealt with, politicized, and learned from (or not) pandemics. We will examine the social, environmental, and political factors that shaped concepts of “contagion” and illness. Includes discussion of ecological/environmental dimensions of pandemics, as well as quarantine and vaccination.