Archive: John R. McNeill
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John McNeill Presented his Work at the Universität Bielefeld’s Society – Knowledge – Environment Colloquium
John McNeill presented his work on the Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution, at the Society – Knowledge – Environment Colloquium (Gesellschaft – Wissen – Umwelt Kolloquium), hosted online by Universität Bielefeld.
Category: Past events
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Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean
This book, co-authored by John McNeill, Philip J. Morgan, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz, delves into the environment and ecology of the Caribbean, exploring issues concerning natural resources, conservation, epidemiology, and climate.
Category: Scholarship
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AHR Interview: Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai in Conversation with John McNeill on the Plague Concept
Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai join this conversation with John McNeill. They discuss their article “The Justinianic Plague and Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague Concept,” which appeared in the AHR.
Categories: Media, Past events
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AHR Interview: Monica H. Green in Conversation with John McNeill on The Four Black Deaths
In this episode John McNeill speaks with Monica H. Green, a historian of medicine and global health, about her article, “The Four Black Deaths,” which appeared in the AHR. In it, Green suggests both a broader and more nuanced understanding of how plague spread in the late medieval world.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Infectious Historians Podcast, Episode #39: Environmental History: Past, Present, and Future with John McNeill
John McNeill speaks with Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai about the changes to environmental and disease history over the last half century.
Categories: Media, Past events
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John McNeill Was a Guest Speaker at MIT’s “Plants and Plagues” Session
John McNeill was a guest speaker at the MIT’s “Plants and Plagues” session, which was part of the History of Now: Plagues and Pandemic free webinar course. This course focused on the history of infectious disease, looking transnationally and across disciplines at how plagues and pandemics have made an impact on human and non-human history.
Category: Past events
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“Bats, Battiness, and the COVID-19 Pandemic”
John McNeill reflects on the ways that have made the pandemic an environmental history event.
Category: Scholarship
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Georgetown Now: A Conversation with Georgetown President John J. DeGioia featuring John McNeill
Conversation between Georgetown President John J. DeGioia and John McNeill.
Category: Past events
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“Peak Document and the Future of History”
“Peak Document and the Future of History” was John McNeill’s 2019 presidential address at the AHA annual meeting. In his address, McNeill talked about the use of historical sources that do not come in the written form, but from the natural sciences and archaeology.
Category: Scholarship
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“Peak Document and the Future of History”, John McNeill Delivered His Presidential Address at the American Historical Association
In his role as President of the American Historical Association, John McNeill delivered his 2019 presidential address at the AHA annual meeting, which took place on Saturday, January 4, 2020 in the New York Hilton.
Category: Past events