From the Black Death to COVID-19: Airborne Diseases in History, Culture, and Literature

This zoom link will grant you access to the conference:
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/65898007867?pwd=eWZuOXNCbHd4QXNIdkxYWm1KZ1ZXQT09

Meeting ID: 658 9800 7867
Passcode: 085669

We are pleased to announce the conference program for “From the Black Death to COVID-19: Airborne Diseases in History, Culture, and Literature,” held online via Zoom on November 16-18, 2022.

Bringing together research from across the globe, this conference presents engagements with airborne diseases across a diverse thematic landscape. Tracing the history of airborne diseases across multiple scholarly fields, “From the Black Death to COVID-19: Airborne Diseases in History, Culture, and Literature” platforms significant discourse engaging with air, pollution, viruses, and health. The talks that constitute this conference consider representations of airborne diseases, directly interrogating how such representations help us better understand the complexity of air in the context of epidemics and pandemics. The speakers address topics inclusive of, but not limited to, contagion and transmission, zoonotic diseases, infections, death, air, air pollution by viruses, media and literary representations of disease and medicine, and questions of protection in an era of pandemics.