[讲座预告]Daniel R. Curtis：Why do some epidemics lead to hatred? An Investigation into the impact of economic inequality on the extent of blame, persecution, hatred and violence after early modern plagues
讲座题目：
Daniel R. Curtis，Why
do some epidemics lead to hatred? An Investigation into the impact of
economic inequality on the extent of blame, persecution, hatred and
violence after early modern plagues
时间：5月26日，15:00-16:30
地点：人文学院211
讲座简介：
During
this presentation I will be introducing a new 250,000 euro project set
up at Leiden University with the intention of finding themes of
potential comparison with researchers working on societal responses to
disease in China – either for comparative papers or future project
collaborations. Although epidemics and societal disruption and disorder
have often gone hand-in-hand, their association was not always
inevitable – sometimes epidemics led to moderate, or even cohesive and
compassionate responses too. At the moment, however, we have very little
understanding of the conditions that make extreme social responses more
likely after epidemics. This project aims to unravel some of these
conditions by focusing in on plague epidemics in the early modern Low
Countries. The added value of my approach is to be more systematic with
the comparative approach by holding variables on the ‘disease side’
constant, and to use more quantifiably measurable indicators of social
disruption rather than reliance on literary and anecdotal evidence from
contemporary commentators.
讲者简介：
Dr.
Daniel R. Curtis has a BA from the University of York, a MPhil from the
University of Cambridge, and a PhD from Utrecht University. He worked
for 2 years as a post-doc on an ERC-funded project at Utrecht University
on a project that tried to understand why some societies were better at
coping with hazards and recovering from disasters than others, which
culminated in his first book ‘Coping with Crisis’. He now works as an
Assistant Professor at Leiden University on his own project that he is
introducing.
