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Academic colleagues from across the University are invited to attend Professor Snowden research webinar where he will present a specific major case in the COVID pandemic, which allows a clear presentation of the nature of this disease and its origins.

Professor Frank Snowden (Emeritus Professor of History and History of Medicine) – Yale University; author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Yale University Press, 2019) – a foundational analysis of epidemics and their role in shaping political, social and cultural history.

"Lombardy at the Epicentre of the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Did We Learn?"

Professor Snowden will present a specific major case in the COVID pandemic, which allows a clear presentation of the nature of this disease and its origins. He will then explore globalization, environmental degradation, demography, and preparedness, and then contrast public messaging in Italy, the U.S. and the U.K. Professor Snowden was living in Italy at the time, and he will also comment on some of his observations in that context.

Frank Snowden attended Harvard University, where he earned his B.A. Degree in 1968, and Oxford University, where he was awarded the degrees of B.Phil. In 1972 and D.Phil. In 1975. He then taught at Royal Holloway College, the University of London as Lecturer and then Reader until 1991, when he was appointed Professor at Yale University. He served as Chair of History of Science and History of Medicine, and he holds the title of Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History. His principal publications are : Violence and Great Estates in the South of Italy; The Fascist Revolution in Tuscany, 1919 - 1922; Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884- 1911; The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900 - 1962; and Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. The Conquest of Malaria was awarded the Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association; the Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine; and the Gustav Ranis Prize from Yale University.

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