The COVID-19 pandemic renewed interest in the global history of infectious diseases. This year’s History Lecture Series presented by History Department faculty and other experts focuses on different periods in world history when societies faced pandemics and their consequences.

In the second lecture, adjunct faculty member David Livingstone, Ph.D., will address seven cholera epidemics in the 19th century. This lecture will cover the devastating consequences of this illness and what the human responses to cholera tell us about our own experiences with COVID-19. Admission is free, but registration is required at bit.ly/3j2S2oh.

The series is sponsored by Cal Lutheran, the Thousand Oaks Grant R. Brimhall Library and Ventura County Library, and funded in part by a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation grant. For information, contact David Nelson at dnelson@callutheran.edu.

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