Attacking in three waves, from the spring of 1918 into early 1919, in a short time span of just several months, the so-called ‘Spanish Influenza’ pandemic wrecked unparalleled havoc. Nevertheless, until relatively recently the study of this massive global
19 February 2019 | |
08.45 | Guy Beiner / Steffen Bruendel: Welcome Address and Introduction |
09.00 – 10.30 | Conference session 1: Private and Public Forgetting/Remembering |
| Guy Beiner, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva: “The Great Flu between Social Forgetting and Regenerated Memory” |
| Howard Phillips, University of Cape Town: “The Flu Pandemic in Memory: Re Collections of the Spanish Flu” |
| Ida Milne, St. Patrick’s Carlow College, Carlow: “Using Oral History to Explore Transition in the Irish Remembering and Forgetting of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic” |
10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break |
11.00 – 12.30 | Conference session 2: Mapping Memories |
| David Killingray, University of London: “Pandemic Death, Response and Memory in Non-European societies” |
| Łukasz Mieszkowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw: “Virus and Lice: The 1918 -1920 Polish Episode of the Spanish Flu Pandemic and its Rivalry with Typhus Epidemics” |
| Nancy Bristow, University of Puget Sound, North Tacoma, Washington: “Public War / Private Losses: Memory and Martial Metaphor in the United States” |
12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch Break |
14.00 – 15.30 | Conference session 3: Archives and Memory |
| Liane Maria Bertucci and Lineti Firmo Rodrigues, State University of Paraná, Curitiba: “Spanish flu in the Memories of the Old and the Words of the Young (Brazil, mid-twentieth to twenty-first century)” |
| Cynthia Gabbay, Freie Universität Berlin: ”Latin American Representations of the Spanish Flu: Traces in the Archive of a Great Oblivion” |
| Hannah Rhian Mawdsley, Queen Mary University of London: “Richard Hughesdon Collier – Remembering the ‘Forgotten’ Pandemic” |
15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee Break |
16.00 –17.30 | Workshop session I: Publishing Popular History |
20 February 2019 | |
9.00 – 10.00 | Conference session 4: Scientific Narratives |
| Mark Honigsbaum, City University, London: “Pandemic Dialogues: The ‘Spanish Flu’ and the Interplay of Science and History” |
| María-Isabel Porras, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real: “Risk Perception and Reactions to Influenza Pandemics and its Vaccines in Spain (1918-2009)” |
10.00 – 10.30 | Coffee Break |
10.30 – 12.00 | Workshop session II: Retrospective on Previous Anniversaries |
12.00 – 13.30 | Lunch Break |
13.30 – 15.00 | Conference session 5: Representations in Art |
| Steffen Bruendel, Goethe University Frankfurt: “Between the Great War and the Great Flu. How Europe’s Avant-garde Coped with the Influenza Pandemic of 1918/19” |
| Laura Spinney, science journalist and writer, Paris: “Did Artists Ignore the Spanish Flu, and If So Why? A Hypothesis” |
| Utz Thimm, Writer and Journalist, Frankfurt: "The Cultural Commemoration of the Great Flu in Belgium and the Netherlands“ (Working Title) |
15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee Break |
15.30 – 16.30 | Conference session 6: Representations in Media |
| Kate Barker, York University, Toronto: “Killer Advertising — how Canadians were sold the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic” |
| Ryan Davis, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois: “Spanish Flu Then and Now, a View from Spain” |
16:30 – 17.00 | Coffee Break |
17.00 – 18.30 | Workshop session III: Teaching the Pandemic’s Legacy |
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21 February 2019 | |
9.00 – 10.30 | Workshop session IV: Taking Stock of the Centenary |
10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break |
11.00 – 12.30 | Final Discussion: Developing Cultural Histories of the Great Flu |
