Category: Current Seminar Schedule

We are pleased to release the schedule for our Spring 2025 seminar series. As in previous series, the seminar will be held via Zoom at 16.00 Central European Time on Thursdays, except the seminar on 24 April, which will be held at 15.00.

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20 February
Surviving the Black Death: Social Connectivity and Disease Modelling in Medieval England
Alex Brown, Durham University

13 March
Ethnic and Linguistic Differences in the COVID-19 Mortality in Rural Localities in Moldova 
Vitalie Stirba, Charles University and Center for Demographic Research

20 March
How can pathogen genomic data uncover community drivers and determinants of COVID-19 spread?
Jessica Stockdale, Simon Fraser University

3 April
The COVID-19 Pandemic in the Global South
Marília Nepomuceno, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
**Note that Central European Summer Time begins on 30 March**

24 April
Title TBC
Emily Mendenhall, Georgetown University
**Note that this seminar will be held at 15.00 Central European Summer Time**

8 May
Death on the Nile: Spatio-temporal Contours of Plague Spread in Later Mamluk Period, c.1363-1517
Philip Slavin, University of Stirling

22 May
Long-term Mortality Effects of the 1918/19 Pandemic Birth Cohort in Switzerland
Katarina Luise Matthes, Universität Zürich

5 June
Mismeasuring pandemics in causal research: Errors, biases, mismatched estimands, ambiguous channels, and the 1918 influenza pandemic
Hampton Gaddy, London School of Economics and Political Science

We are pleased to release the schedule for our Fall 2024 seminar series. As in previous series, the seminar will be held via Zoom at 16.00 Central European Time on Thursdays.

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5 September
What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature
Áine Doran, Ulster University

19 September
How germs shaped history
Jonathan Kennedy, Queen Mary University of London

3 October
Wages and inequality in the Middle Ages: Moving beyond the average
Spike Gibbs, Universität Mannheim

10 October
Democracy, Mortality, and COVID-19: A Cross-Regional Comparison of Excess Mortality Data in Post-Communist Countries of the EU and CIS
Umit Tleshova, Charles University

31 October
Covid-19 is (Probably) Not an Exogenous Shock or Valid Instrument
Jeff Clement, Augsburg University
**Note that Central European Summer Time ends on 27 October**

7 November
Projecting the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. population structure
Andrea Tilstra, University of Oxford

14 November
Racialized Epidemiologies: The Case of Black Americans During the Great Influenza, 1918–1920
Paul Skäbe, Universität Leipzig

21 November
Excess Mortality in Mainland China after the End of the “Zero COVID” Policy: A Systematic Review of Literature
Isaac Fung, Georgia Southern University

5 December
The Impact of the First Wave of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on the French and German Armies on the Western Front of the First World War
Srijita Pal, University of Southern California

We are pleased to release the schedule for our Spring 2024 seminar series. As in previous series, the seminar will be held via Zoom at 16.00 Central European Time on Thursdays.

To access the Zoom meetings, please join our mailing list here.

8 February
Association of Severe COVID-19 and Persistent COVID-19 Symptoms With Economic Hardship Among US Families
Nicole Hair, University of South Carolina

22 February
Navigating gaps and biases in surveillance data
Nita Bharti, Penn State University

29 February
Title To Be Announced
Thomas Finnie, UK Health Security Agency

7 March
The Economic Impact of the Black Death in England, 1350 to 1400
Mark Bailey, University of East Anglia

4 April
Long COVID and Labor Force Participation in the United States
Katie Bach, Brookings Institution
**Note that Central European Summer Time begins on 31 March**

18 April
“We are not afraid but only like to take precautions”: Popular understandings of contagion during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic and their impacts on flu prevention measures in Southern California
Islay Shelbourne, University of St Andrews

2 May
Socioeconomic mortality differences during the Great Influenza in Spain
Sergio Basco, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona

23 May
Forgotten Pandemic? Revisiting the “Spanish” Influenza on the First World War’s Macedonian Front
Christos Konstantopoulos, McGill University

30 May
Racialized Epidemiologies: The Case of Black Americans During the Great Influenza, 1918–1920
Paul Skäbe, Universität Leipzig