Plagues Upon the Earth: Kyle Harper 

Kyle Harper and Esyllt W. Jones

Plagues Upon the Earth: Kyle Harper 

Kyle Harper and Esyllt W. Jones

4:00pm

Thursday, October 21

University of Oklahoma Professor of Classics and Letters, Kyle Harper’s latest research offers a panoramic look at the history of pandemics. It weaves together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge geneticists to show that the story of disease is entangled with the history of slavery, colonialism and capitalism. Don’t miss this enlightening conversation with Harper, as he presents his latest book, Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. As we continue to live with the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the book tells the story of how we got here as a species and where we can hope to go.

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University of Oklahoma Professor of Classics and Letters, Kyle Harper’s latest research offers a panoramic look at the history of pandemics. It weaves together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge geneticists to show that the story of disease is entangled with the history of slavery, colonialism and capitalism. Don’t miss this enlightening conversation with Harper, as he presents his latest book, Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. As we continue to live with the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the book tells the story of how we got here as a species and where we can hope to go.

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Kyle Harper
Kyle Harper is a professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. His books include The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton) and From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. He lives in Moore, Oklahoma. Visit Kyle Harper online at kyleharper.net and on twitter @Oklahomaharper.

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Esyllt W. Jones
Esyllt W. Jones is the Humanities Research Professor in the Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba. She is the author or editor of several books on the history of pandemic influenza, medicare and Canadian social history, including the award-winning Influenza 1918: Disease, Death and Struggle in Winnipeg (UTP, 2007). Prof. Jones has recently created a new online project called Pandemic Histories (www.pandemichistories.ca), a site that promotes the work of Covid-19 record preservation in Canada, historical memory, and disease history. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s Covid-19 Taskforce.

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Thursday, October 21

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