Archive: Timothy Newfield
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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
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“Towards a Rigorous Understanding of Societal Responses to Climate Change”
The team of researchers that includes Timothy Newfield and Jakob Burnham proposes an interdisciplinary framework for uncovering climate–society interactions that emphasizes the mechanics by which climate change has influenced human history, and the uncertainties of discerning that influence across spatiotemporal scales.
Category: Scholarship
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“Past Pandemics and Climate Variability Across the Mediterranean”
Timothy Newfield and his co-authors explore potential associations between pandemic disease and climate in Mediterranean history. They make sense of the influence that meteorological, climatological and environmental factors had on historical disease outbreaks.
Category: Scholarship
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The Coronavirus Pandemic in Historical Perspective, with Professor Timothy Newfield
In this event, hosted by Georgetown University Press, Georgetown College, and Georgetown University Library as part of the Books for a Better World series, Timothy Newfield talks about the history of infectious disease in the ancient world.
Category: Past events
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Climate History Podcast, Episode 16: “Pandemics and Climate Change: What History Tells Us About Today’s Greatest Challenges” with Timothy Newfield
Timothy Newfield talks with co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde about what led him to the History and Biology departments at Georgetown University, and about his work in the thriving field of historical epidemiology.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Estudos Medievais Podcast, Mundus Series Episode 1: “Plague and Climate Change” with Timothy Newfield
Timothy Newfield talks with Isabela Alves Silva about the Justinianic Plague and climate change in the beginning of the Middle Ages.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“Covering COVID-19? Perhaps Leave the Black Death and Great Influenza Out of It”, Timothy Newfield Writes on the Georgetown Environmental History Blog
In this piece, published on the Georgetown Environmental History blog, Timothy Newfield argues against the trend to compare COVID-19 with other pandemics in history.
Category: Media
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Timothy Newfield’s Opinion Piece: “Nothing Was the Same: Historical Parallels for the Coronavirus Should Be Avoided like the Plague”
Timothy Newfield addresses historical parallels regarding pandemics. He argues that our instinct to look to the past for ways forward can be harmful when it comes to pandemics.
Category: Media