Contagion! “The Seven Deadly Cholera Pandemics”

The COVID-19 pandemic renewed interest in the global history of infectious diseases. This year’s lecture series presented by History Department faculty and other experts focuses on different periods in world history when societies faced pandemics and their consequences.

In the second lecture, adjunct faculty member David Livingstone, PhD, will address seven cholera epidemics in the 19th century. This lecture will cover the devastating consequences of this illness and what the human responses to cholera tell us about our own experiences with COVID-19.

Admission is free, but registration is required.

The series will continue with:

•    Dec. 9: David Nelson, PhD, “Bubonic Plague in 19th Century China”
•    Feb. 10: Michaela Reaves, PhD, “Smallpox and American Society”
•    March 10: Chris Kimball, PhD, “The First Modern Pandemic: Spanish Influenza”
•    April 21: Dr. Robert J. Kim-Farley, “COVID-19 and the Effectiveness of Our Response"

The series is sponsored by Cal Lutheran, the Thousand Oaks Grant R. Brimhall Library and Ventura County Library, and generously funded in part by a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation grant. For information, contact David Nelson at dnelson@CalLutheran.edu.

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