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Pandemics, Empires, and the Lessons of History

Pandemics, Empires, and the Lessons of History

Update: 2020-11-29
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In the 17th episode of Climate History, co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde interview PhD candidate Emily Webster of the Department of History at the University of Chicago. Webster's trailblazing scholarship combines environmental history, the history of science, and medical history to transform understandings of disease in the British Empire. Among other topics, Webster discusses what history can reveal about the unequal impacts of environmental change on marginalized communities, and how it can shed light on connections between apparently isolated environmental crises. She also describes how history can inform public discourse on COVID-19; and identifies the impact of our present pandemic on higher education - particularly graduate students.
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Pandemics, Empires, and the Lessons of History

Pandemics, Empires, and the Lessons of History

Dagomar Degroot