On April 30, 2020, Nükhet Varlık, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University - Newark and the University of South Carolina, delivered a timely webinar discussing the plague in European and Ottoman historiography, questioning Eurocentric narratives and epidemiological Orientalism, and reflecting on how we can understand this history in light of the current pandemic.
Those who wish to learn more about the topic and Professor Varlık's research may also be interested in the webinar, "The Mother of All Pandemics: The State of Black Death Research in the Era of COVID-19," through the Medieval Academy of America and this impressive 89-page bibliography on plague research compiled by plague scholars.
Watch the Alwaleed webinar video!