Welcome! Here you can find digital resources related to our table on Pandemics and Disasters from the UCSB Parents and Family Weekend, 2021.
We’ve grouped the materials thematically in the tabs below.
Courses and lectures
Syllabi and courses
- Syllabus for History of Disease and Epidemiology, taught by Prof. Brad Bouley and Prof. John Latto (Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology).
- Syllabus for Science Fiction and History: Aliens, Plagues, and Isolation, taught by Prof. Brad Bouley and Prof. Patrick McHugh (UCSB Writing Program).
- Watch a trailer for Prof. Brad Bouley’s course on the Trial of Galileo:
Lectures
- Watch Prof. Brad Bouley lecture on the Black Plague:
- Watch Prof. Giuliana Perrone lecture on World War I and the Crises of 1919:
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Africa
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Africa
- Howard Phillips, “Introduction,” in H. Philipps, In A Time of Plague: Memories from the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918 in South Africa (Cape Town: Van Riebeck Society, 2018), x-xi
- “Cape Town,” in H. Philipps, In A Time of Plague: Memories from the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918 in South Africa (Cape Town: Van Riebeck Society, 2018), 1, 13-14, 39-44, 47-49, 68
- Myron Echenberg, ” ‘The dog that did not bark’: Memory and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Senegal,” in The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19: New Perspectives, edited by Howard Philips and David Killingray (London: Routledge 2003), 230-38