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Revisiting the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
Revisitar a Gripe Pneumonica de 1918-1919
Published on Friday, February 15, 2019
Abstract
Interdisciplinary conference signaling the centennial of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, the worst epidemic crisis on record in Portuguese and world history. The papers to be presented review the available knowledge on the subject, explore new data and point out the open questions regarding a historic event that caused dramatic effects on a global scale.
Announcement
Argument
One hundred years ago, the entire world was facing the greatest epidemic crisis in its history, plagued by an influenza pandemic that is estimated to have killed 50-100 million persons worldwide (about 118,000 in Portugal).
The history and memory of this pandemic, known in Portugal as the “Pneumonic” or “Spanish Flu”, will be revisited in a one-day interdisciplinary conference, to be held at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute) on 21 February 2019.
This colloquium follows a special issue of journal Ler Historia (online here) on the same topic, gathering a number of scholars that have been working on it from a variety of disciplinary approaches (history, social sciences, medical sciences). Aiming to promote the dialogue between these different perspectives, the conference also opens the debate on current public health concerns and policies, questioning how a possible epidemic crisis of similar magnitude would be responded today in Portugal and worldwide.
This colloquium is jointly organized by journal Ler Historia and CIES-IUL (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology), both part of ISCTE-IUL, under the scientific coordination of José Vicente Serrão and Laurinda Abreu.
A full programme for the conference can be viewed here.
Programme
Abertura | 9h30-10h00
- Director CIES,
- Director Ler História,
- Presidente Comissão Pneumónica,
- Reitora ISCTE-IUL
Painel 1 | 10h00-12h00
Moderadora : Miriam Halpern Pereira, CIES / ISCTE-IUL
- José Vicente Serrão, Laurinda Abreu, Cem anos de investigação sobre a Pneumónica: um balanço.
- José Manuel Sobral, Maria Luísa Lima, A epidemia da Pneumónica em Portugal no seu tempo histórico.
- Helena Rebelo-de-Andrade, David Felismino, A pandemia de gripe de 1918-1919: um desafio à ciência médica no princípio do século XX.
- Laurinda Abreu, A luta contra as invasões epidémicas em Portugal: políticas e agentes, séculos XVI-XIX.
Conferência | 12h30-13h30 Constantino Sakellarides, A Gripe e a Cidade.
Painel 2 | 15h00-16h30
Moderador: João Lavinha INSA
- Maria de Fátima Nunes, O tempo da Pneumónica, da Grande Guerra, da Liga das Nações. Leituras e interrogações de um tempo de mudanças globais.
- Baltazar Nunes, A pandemia de gripe 1918-19 em Portugal: Uma análise do impacte na mortalidade ao nível distrital.
- Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, A crise sanitária no Porto em 1918: o conhecimento médico e farmacêutico através da imprensa diária.
Painel 3 | 17h00-19h00
Moderador :Sérgio Campos Matos, FLUL ULisboa
- Maria Luísa Gama, Investigar a pneumónica em Portugal: um olhar sobre os arquivos históricos da administração central.
- Alexandra Esteves, A pneumónica em Viana do Castelo: o impacto, as medidas preventivas e remediativas.
- Francisco Javier Martínez, Aproximações à pneumónica nos protetorados francês e espanhol em Marrocos.
- Maria Fernanda Rollo, Guerra, miséria e morte: contexto e palco da pneumónica em Portugal.
Subjects
- Europe (Main category)
- Society > Science studies > History of science
- Periods > Modern > Twentieth century
- Society > Sociology > Sociology of health
- Society > Political studies > Governance and public policies
- Zones and regions > Europe > Iberian Peninsula
- Society > Sociology > Demography
Places
- ISCTE-IUL (Instituto Universitario de Lisboa) - Av. das Forças Armadas
Lisbon, Portugal
Date(s)
- Thursday, February 21, 2019
Keywords
- influenza pandemic, Spanish flu, epidemics, virology, medicine, public health
Contact(s)
- Jose Vicente Serrao
courriel : jjvs [at] iscte-iul [dot] pt
Reference Urls
Information source
- Jose Vicente Serrao
courriel : jjvs [at] iscte-iul [dot] pt
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Revisiting the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Friday, February 15, 2019, https://calenda.org/571946