Category: Current Seminar Schedule

We are pleased to release the schedule for our Spring 2026 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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22 January: Sanjay Gyawali (Akershus University Hospital), “Lessons from the Pandemic: From Data to Defence”.

29 January: Lieke Fleur (Akershus University Hospital), “Leveraging COVID-19 hospital data to strengthen decision making in future pandemics”

5 February: Ulrik Hvid (Roskilde University), “Why did the global mpox outbreak of 2022 fade out?”

12 February: Lone Simonsen (Roskilde University), ”The COVID-19 experience in Denmark”.

26 February: Won-tak Joo (University of Florida), “Sex-Specific Impacts of In-Utero Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Longevity”

12 March: Nathaniel Darling (University of Cambridge), “Patterns of age-specific mortality during influenza pandemics: evidence for immune imprinting?”.

19 March: Abigail Dumes (University of Michigan), “Long COVID as Disability in Higher Education”.

2 April: Hamed Karami (Georgia State University), “The Hidden Impact of COVID-19 on Tuberculosis: Excess Burden, Inequalities, and Health System Disruptions”.

9 April: Raj Kumar Subedi (Georgia State University), “Poverty and Ethnic Patterns in COVID-19 Excess Mortality: Evidence from Chile, 2020-2022.

16 April: Michał B. Paradowski (University of Warsaw), “Emergency remote instruction during COVID-19 – insights from a 118-country study”.

23 April: Jarmo Peltola/Sakari Saaritsa (University of Helsinki), “Can’t Boil, Won’t Boil: Material Inequality, Information and Disease Avoidance during a Typhoid Epidemic in Tampere, Finland, in 1916”.

We are pleased to release the schedule for our Fall 2025 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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18 September: Robert Braid (University of Montpellier), Survivors: The psychological impact of the Black Death on economic performance.

25 September: Max Marczinek (University of Oxford), Labour Scarcity and Productivity: Insights from the Last Nordic Plague.

2 October: Katarina Luise Matthes (University of Zürich), Fetal Stress during the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic: Short- and Long-Term Health Effects in Switzerland.

9 October: Hampton Gaddy (London School of Economics), Mismeasuring pandemics in causal research: Errors, biases, mismatched estimands, ambiguous channels, and the 1918 influenza pandemic.

30 October: Florian Bonnet (INED), Contextualizing the Global Burden of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Historical and Geographical Exploration of Excess Mortality in France, 1901–2021.

6 November: Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo), An Invisible Epidemic: Studying Tuberculosis in Interwar Tanganyika.

13 November: Andrea Kifyasi (University of Dar es Salaam), From China to Africa: A History of the 1957 Asian Influenza Pandemic in Colonial Tanganyika.

20 November: Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford), Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid.

4 December: Abigail Dumes (University of Michigan), Long COVID as Disability in Higher Education.
**Postponed until Spring 2026**

11 December: Mallika Snyder (University of California, Berkeley), Who Will Remember COVID-19? Kinship Memory after a Global Pandemic.

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
**Postponed until Fall 2025**

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
**Postponed until Fall 2025**