Dear colleagues,
We are writing to invite you to attend the conference The Covid-19 Pandemic as a World Historical Event (in person and online) to be held at the British Academy in London, UK, from on July 2-3, 2026.
Please find the conference program attached.
This conference shifts the focus on COVID-19 from a public health crisis to its status as a transformative historical event.
Bringing together specialists from India, six African countries, Europe, and the United States, the conference provides a rare opportunity to develop a truly global and comprehensive understanding of the pandemic’s experiences and consequences.
This is an interdisciplinary conference which proceeds from the assumption that scholars from a wide range of specialisations have important insights into the COVID-19 experience - medical doctors, public health experts, historians, economists, sociologists, political scientists, and practitioners of medical ethics and public health ethics, among others.
The conference is convened by Toby Green (King's College London), Juliette Rouchier (Université Aix-Marseille), Reginald Oduor (University of Nairobi), and T. Sundararaman, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research and is sponsored by the British Academy, the Wellcome Trust, and the Pan-African Epidemic and Pan-Epidemic Group.
Registration is required, and virtual attendance is possible as well.
A limited number of free passes for attendants of the global South are available, and for more information you can reach Professor Toby Green at toby.green@kcl.ac.uk
We are looking forward to seeing you in person or online on July 2-3 and please don't hesitate to share this email widely with your contacts, email lists and any interested person or group.
The convenors,
Toby Green (King's College London)
Juliette Rouchier (Université Aix-Marseille)
Reginald Oduor (University of Nairobi)
T. Sundararaman, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research
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Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD, FRHistS
Professor, Department of History, Howard University
2025 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
2026 Florence Gould Foundation Fellow, The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Address:
Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall
2441 6th Street N.W. room 301
Washington, D.C. 20059
Email: aaraujo@howard.edu
Personal website: https://analuciaaraujo.org/
Howard University profile: https://profiles.howard.edu/ana-lucia-araujo
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