5/14/20-6/18/20 - Talk series on historical pandemics: a series of six talks by CCHRI members
3/5/20 - Merle Eisenberg on comparing the coronavirus to the Black Death (CNN)
3/3/20 - John Haldon: Lecture for the Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University: “Historical change, archaeology and environment: examples from the East Roman/Byzantine world”
12/4/19 - John Haldon: Lecture in the Kollegforschergruppe Migration und Mobilität in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter, University of Tübingen: “St Theodore, Euchaïta and Anatolia, c. 500-1000: Landscape, climate and the survival of an empire”
12/2/19 - Lee Mordechai, Merle Eisenberg, Tim Newfield, Adam Isdebski et al. on the Justinianic Plague (CNN, Science News, USA Today, Haaretz...)
11/15/19 - John Haldon: Lecture in the Kollegforschergruppe Migration und Mobilität in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter, University of Tübingen: “Remarks on history, environment and climate in Byzantine Anatolia: Comments on a complex landscape or, some thoughts on environmental-historical research”
6/24/19 - John Haldon: Keynote lecture, Fifth International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, Istanbul, June 2019, Byzantine Anatolia: Space and Communities: “The climate of survival? Some remarks on environment, climate and society in Byzantine Anatolia, ca. 600-1050”