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The World Today presents - From Black Death to Yellow Fever: Disease, Death, & Distancing in World History
From the Black Death to the 19th century quarantine system, global disease outbreaks have long been part of human history.
Much like social distancing can protect individuals from COVID-19, getting closer to our history can help protect societies from short-sighted policies.
What lessons can we learn from the Middle Ages and the 19th century? What are the historical origins of quarantine and social distancing? What was self-quarantine like before Netflix – or electricity? And what can past pandemics teach us about our changing global order?
Join us for this virtual edition of The World Today to discuss pandemics, quarantine, and world affairs in historical perspective with Professor Alex Chase-Levenson and Professor Ada Kuskowski.
The Perry World House is a center for scholarly inquiry, teaching, research, international exchange, policy engagement, and public outreach on pressing global issues. Perry World House’s mission is to bring the academic knowledge of the University of Pennsylvania to bear on some of the world’s most pressing global policy challenges, and to foster international policy engagement within and beyond the Penn community.