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Keynote Lecture: The Inter-Pandemic as a Global Historical Challenge: Plague between 1770-1890

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Image: J.N. Radcliffe. Papers Relating to the Modern History and Recent Progress of Levantine Plague; Prepared from Time to Time by Directio

Keynote Lecture, Workshop: Plague in the Nineteenth Century: Epidemiological and Epistemological Connections

Monday, 6 July 2026, 4.30pm to 6pm

Critically employing the term “interpandemic”, this keynote offers a provocation for reconsidering the history of plague between the Second and the Third Pandemic, and in particular between 1800 and 1890. The lecture will ask how the “interpandemic” may help us reconsider the challenges and limitations not only of pandemic-focused histories of plague but also of pandemic/non-pandemic dichotomies, calling for histories that take the lived temporalities of plague on the ground ethnographically seriously and at the same time renew the global history of plague in this period through two key lenses: that of contagion, and that of endemicity.

Speaker(s): Professor Christos Lynteris (St Andrews)

Venue: Schwarzman Centre - Room 00.056 - Room 00.056 Schwarzman Centre Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6GG United Kingdom

Department: Humanities Divisional Office (Department)

Host: TORCH Medical Humanities Hub

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See full Workshop programme here