MONDAY, 7/28
The World History lens on pestilence and public health
9:00 Introductions – Michele Delattre, ORIAS
9:30 Keynote: Jo N. Hays (Historian; Loyola University Chicago) - "Historians and Epidemics: Questions and Answers."
 Framing questions for the week.
Glossary
11:00 Break
Where are we now? Contemporary case studies
11:10 Eva Harris – (School of Public Health, UCB) "'Pa'bajo con el Dengue!': Efforts to Control the Global Spread and Persistence of Dengue."
12:30 Catered lunch
1:30 Ted Gerber – (Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison) - "The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Russia: Trajectory, Consequences, and Challenges."
Presentation Powerpoint
2:50 Break
3:00 Resource Review - "Health for Sale" (California Newsreel - Alexis Smart)
Film Guide
3:45 Credit group assignments – ORIAS
Lesson Brainstorming Form
4:00 Adjourn
TUESDAY - 7/29
How did we get there? Case study - Plague and human history
9:00 Credit group meeting
9:15 Richard Hoffman (History, SFState) - "Ring Around the Rosy: The Plague of Athens Was No Child's Play." – (Thucydides' Athenian Plague as a Metaphor for Social and Historical Collapse.)
Word List
10:35 Break
10:45 Jo N. Hays (Historian; Loyola University Chicago) – "Dances of Death: from the Black Death to 1721."
12:05 Catered lunch
1:00 Classroom Practice: Roundtable
3:15 Credit group meeting (ORIAS)
4:00 Adjourn
WEDNESDAY – 7/30
Imagining disease: the arts
9:00 Announcements
9:10 Laura Allen (Art History, University of San Francisco) – "Battling (and Appeasing) Red-faced Demons: Views of Disease in Nineteenth Century Japanese Prints."
UCSF Library’s collection of Japanese woodblock prints
10:30 Break
10:40 Steven Botterill (Dept of Italian Studies, UCB) – "Plague and Pleasure in Boccaccio's 'Decameron'."
12:00 Lunch on own
1:30 Linda Rugg (Scandanavian Dept, UCB) – “Illness as Metaphor: The Presence of the Plague and Death in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.”
3:30 Classroom Practice: Judy Gruszynski, Mill Valley Middle School and Kelly Korenak, World Savvy - "World Affairs Challenge 2008 - Global Health."
4:00 Adjourn
THURSDAY, JULY 31
Crossing cultures: disease through different lenses
9:00 Announcements
9:10 Eric Crystal (Anthropologist; Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCB) – "Shamans and Healers in Village Southeast Asia."
10:35 Break
10:45 Alan Karras (International and Area Studies Teaching Program, UCB) – "Death in the Tropics: Slavery and the Atlantic Disease Vector."
12:05 Catered lunch
1:00 Greg Rohlf (History Department, University of the Pacific) - "Inoculation and Immunology in Chinese History."
2:20 Break
2:30 Rami Bailony (Medical School, UCSF) - "Hospitals in the Medieval Middle East: Precursors to the Modern Hospital?"
Presentation Powerpoint (as pdf)
3:50 Credit group
4:00 Adjourn
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1
Pestilence and Power: Asian case studies
9:00 Discussion/ Announcements
9:15 Rachel Shigekane (IAS Center for Human Rights, UCB) – "The Gathering Storm: Infectious Diseases and Human Rights in Burma."
The Gathering Storm report.
10:35 Break
10:45 Lawrence Cohen (Anthropology, UCB) "From Cholera to AIDS: Culture, power, and epidemics in India."
12:05 Catered lunch
Overview
1:00 Cynthia Brown (Historian; Dominican College) - “Using the Lens of Big History: What Do We See?”
2:20 Evaluations / Check out for auditors
2:35 Credit group presentations
4:00 Adjourn
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