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An International Conference on 'The Epidemic in Modern History'
University College Cork, November 6th and 7th, 2009

First Call for Papers

This conference seeks specifically to initiate a dialogue between scholars in the Humanities, and in Medicine, to offer an interdisciplinary investigation of the impact of epidemic disease in the modern world.

Organisers: Dr Larry Geary and Dr Oonagh Walsh, Dept. of History, University College Cork, Ireland.

Themes might include:

• Continuities and discontinuities in the historic control of epidemic disease
• The role of the State in disease control
• Philanthropy in the delivery of health care
• Public responses to disease outbreak
• The role of folk medicine in combating disease
• The experience of epidemic disease in institutional and domestic environments
• Resignation and resistance during epidemic outbreaks
• War and Epidemics

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Prof. Hugh Pennington, University of Aberdeen

Prof. Ivan Perry, University College, Cork

The organisers welcome proposals, and suggestions for panels, on additional themes. Please send your proposals as attachments to Oonagh Walsh at o.walsh@ucc.ie. Please also note that selected proceedings from this conference will be published.

Thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, the organisers can offer a limited number of conference fee waivers, and support towards conference travel and accommodation costs, to registered postgraduate students. Please contact Oonagh Walsh for further details.

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This page by David Hawgood was amended 9 April 2009