Archive: Timothy Newfield
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Medical Humanities and Global Medieval Studies Workshop: Millennium Epidemics
Join us for the Millennium Epidemics Workshop in April
Categories: Announcements, Scholarship
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“The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region”
Timothy Newfield and his research team use palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, historical records and climate model simulations to assess the potential broader impact of the 852/3 CE eruption of Mount Churchill, Alaska, was one of the largest first-millennium volcanic events.
Category: Scholarship
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“Has the Black Death’s Impact Been Overstated? New Medieval Data Complicates Understanding”, Georgetown College Covers Timothy Newfield’s Research
Georgetown College covers Timothy Newfield’s research, undertaken with an interdisciplinary team, on the Black Death’s impact.
Category: Media
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“Palaeoecological Data Indicates Land-Use Changes Across Europe Linked to Spatial Heterogeneity in Mortality During the Black Death Pandemic”
Timothy Newfield and his co-authors write about their application of a pioneering new approach, ‘big data palaeoecology’ to evaluate the scale of the Black Death’s mortality on a regional scale across Europe using palynological data.
Category: Scholarship
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“Did the ‘Black Death’ Really Kill Half of Europe? New Research Says No”, The New York Times Covers Timothy Newfield’s Research
The New York Times covers the research Timothy Newfield co-authored and recently published on the uneven impacts of the plague across Europe, causing “a patchwork of destruction”.
Category: Media
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“The Black Death Was not as Widespread or Catastrophic as Long Thought – New Study”, Timothy Newfield, Adam Izdebski and Alessia Masi Write on The Conversation
Timothy Newfield, Adam Izdebski and Alessia Masi compared the Black Death’s demographic impact across the continent, concluding that the pandemic’s toll was not as universal as currently claimed, nor was it always catastrophic.
Category: Media
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“Syndemic Theory, Methods, and Data”
Emily Mendenhall, Timothy Newfield and Alexander Tsai introduce an Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine, focused on Rethinking Syndemics through time, space, and method.
Category: Scholarship
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“Syndemics and the History of Disease: Towards a New Engagement”
Timothy Newfield looks at histories of disease and our understanding of current syndemics to think of epidemics through a syndemic lens.
Category: Scholarship
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Infectious Historians Podcast, Episode #72: Climate Change and the Globalization of Disease in the Early Middle Ages with Tim Newfield
Timothy Newfield talks to Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai about the connected histories of climate change and diseases that become pandemics, focusing on the early medieval and late antique periods.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Professor Timothy Newfield Speaks at the 53rd Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Spring Symposium
Timothy Newfield presented his work on “Local Dimming or Global Blackout? Mysterious Clouding and Climate Change in the Sixth Century: Science, Sources, and Reconstructions” at the 53rd Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Spring Symposium.
Category: Past events