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Study Day “Glocal Spanish Influenza, 1918-1920 – Numbers, Responses, Memories (PRIN 2022)”


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Study Day “Glocal Spanish Influenza, 1918-1920 – Numbers, Responses, Memories (PRIN 2022)”
Tuesday, February 12, 2025, the study day “Glocal Spanish Influenza, 1918-1920 – Numbers, Responses, Memories (PRIN 2022)” will be held at the Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Art, and Performing Arts (SAGAS) of the University of Florence.

Aula Parva – Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Art, and Performing Arts (SAGAS), via San Gallo 10, Florence

 

Session I, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Giovanni Gozzini | The numbers of the Spanish flu in Florence in a comparative perspective

Francesco Maccelli | Measuring the pandemic. A quantitative profile of the Spanish flu in Tuscany through burial permits

Francesco Cutolo | Between city and countryside. The impact of the Spanish flu in some municipalities of the Florentine province

Leandro Colli | The Spanish flu in the San Miniato district. Sources and research perspectives

 

Session II, 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Roberto Bianchi | Managing the crisis. Florence during the Spanish flu pandemic (1918-1920)

Monica Pacini | The Spanish flu in Florence: private life and support networks

Francesco Cutolo | A hundred years of Spanish flu. Commemorations, public uses, and memories of the “great pandemic” (1918-2024)

Participants: Salvatore Botta, Mauro Capocci, Roberto Cea, Giancarlo Cerasoli, Donatella Lippi, Claudia Pancino, Ilaria Pavan, Claudio Staiti

 

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