“…epidemics are never only about pathogens. They are also filtered through the words of newspapers, proclamations, and popular accounts — words that, like folk tales, provided frameworks for speaking about disaster.” Official COVID-19 awareness poster (2020) by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, reimagining Shevchenko wearing a protective mask. The inscription «Борітеся — поборете» (“StruggleContinueContinue reading “Epidemics in Word and Imagination: Ukrainian Literature Between Folklore, the Press, and Science”
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George Gissing, the Fin de Siècle, and Social Change: Understandings of the ‘Russian Influenza’
“Through realism, Gissing exhibits both sides of a cultural shift, with depictions of a man weathered down by metropolis living in New Grub Street (1891), and a yearning for a simpler time with The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1902).” Nineteenth-century Grub Street, as depicted in Robert Chambers Book of Days (1864), Wikimedia. This isContinueContinue reading “George Gissing, the Fin de Siècle, and Social Change: Understandings of the ‘Russian Influenza’”
Media Technology and Parasite Control: Japan-China Cooperation Under the Name of Family Planning in the 1980s
“…parasite control was less obviously connected to family planning yet it was integral to Japan’s international cooperation efforts in the field.” Topographical map of East Asia. Wikimedia Commons. In the early 1980s, China and Japan began cooperating in family planning through both governmental and nongovernmental channels. This was during China’s so-called ‘one-child policy’, so theContinueContinue reading “Media Technology and Parasite Control: Japan-China Cooperation Under the Name of Family Planning in the 1980s”
Media and Epidemics (MEDEP) 