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SUMMARY:Plagues and Peoples revisited: new insights into historical patter
 ns of infectious disease transmission\, impact and control - Speaker to be
  confirmed
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CONTACT:Romola Davenport
DESCRIPTION:Cambridge\, 23rd - 24th March 2020\n\nWilliam McNeill’s book
  Plagues and peoples (1975) was enormously influential in persuading histo
 rians of the importance of infectious diseases in human history. McNeill o
 ffered a radical interpretation of the consequences of globalisation\, col
 onisation and urbanisation for the spread of micro- and macro-parasites\, 
 and emphasised the importance of host-parasite accommodation and co-evolut
 ion to historical processes of population growth and conflict. This worksh
 op seeks to re-evaluate McNeill’s elegant models of host-pathogen intera
 ctions in the light of new developments in archaeology\, evolutionary biol
 ogy and historical research. It brings together archaeologists\, demograph
 ers\, epidemiologists\, evolutionary biologists\, geographers\, historians
  and mathematicians to provide cutting-edge interdisciplinary perspectives
  on historical disease patterns\, and to discuss new collaborative approac
 hes to the history of infectious diseases.\n\nThe workshop is free to atte
 nd but BOOKING IS REQUIRED. Registration and a draft programme are availab
 le at https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/events/plaguesandpeoples/\n
LOCATION:Newnham and Robinson Colleges
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