Join ProQuest for this time machine webinar to explore the history of pandemics, behaviors around disease and how they relate to beliefs and myth creation. French social anthropologist Laetitia Atlani-Duault and ProQuest’s team of anthropologists will discuss the value of primary sources to explore such questions as:
- How have societies evolved in response to the Black Death, Spanish Flu and HIV?
- Have the ways we respond to and make sense of epidemics changed over time?
- Based on what we can observe about the past, how will COVID-19 impact the way we live going forward?

Laetitia Atlani-Duault will share her work and experience as a teacher and researcher at Columbia University and as a member of a French scientific council for public health and decision-making related to COVID-19.

Our speakers will discuss primary sources critical to the study of these topics, including historical books, government documents, first-hand accounts of historical events, maps, documentaries and more. Topics will include social distancing, the evolving understanding how disease spreads and various forms the fear of disease have taken.

Event page: https://www.choice360.org/webinars/plagues-epidemics-peculiar-beliefs-and-practices-through-time-delving-into-primary-sources/