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RECONSIDERING ILLNESS AND RECOVERY IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD Funded by the Durham University Centre for Academic DevelopmentSponsored by Oxford University Press and Yale University Press With many conferences being cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19, Rachel Clamp (Durham University) and Claire Turner (University of Leeds) have decided to hold an online interdisciplinary conference. Their aim is to provide a space for scholars at all stages of their careers to discuss and share their work with the wider academic community.The virtual conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to reconsider the role of health, illness, and recovery in the early modern world in light of the current crisis. These topics sit at the intersection of some of the most significant themes in early modern history and are particularly relevant today. The ways in which contemporaries interpreted, represented, monitored, controlled and ultimately recovered from illness have broad implications for the study of science, medicine, religion, art, literature and so much more.DAY 1 Tuesday, 18th August 1-4pm (BST) PANEL ONE: EPIDEMIC AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE 1PM - 2PM Aaron Columbus, Birkbeck, University of London 'For the better observing of order during this tyme of the contagious infection': The response of parish government to plague in the suburban environs of London c.1600 - 1650 Marina Iní, University of Cambridge Quarantine and plague prevention: lazzaretti in the early modern Mediterranean Lorna Lorna Giltrow-Shaw, University of Birmingham 'Death...dogs them into their own houses': The pestilential pooch in the col aborative play The Witch of EdmontonPANEL TWO: MEDICAL ENCOUNTERS AND INTERVENTIONS 2PM - 3PM Nat Cutter, University of Melbourne The First Misery of Barbary: Plague, Medicine, Recovery and Death for British Expatriates in the Ottoman Maghreb, 1660 - 1710 Maggie Bell, Assistant Curator, Norton Simon Museum Looking Exercises: Salutary Effects of Images in the Central Ward of Santa Maria del a Helen Esfandiary, King's College London Managing Smal pox: Elite Georgian Mothers and the Making of an English Method of InnoculationKEYNOTE PRESENTATION 3PM - 4PM Professor John Henderson, Birkbeck, University of London Imagining the Great Pox in Renaissance Italy: Patients, symptoms and treatment DAY 2 Wednesday, 19th August 1-3pm (BST) PANEL THREE: IDEALS OF HEALTH AND RECOVERY 1PM - 2PM Emma Marshall, University of York People, Place and Power: Re-Evaluating Domestic Healthcare Dr Ninon Dubourg, University of Paris Disabling Consequences of Il nesses on Clerics' Recruitment in 1459: (Re-)Inclusion of Disabled People within the Church by Pius I Amie Bolissian Mcrae, University of Reading ‘A conservative cure in respect of Age’: The Contingent Nature of Recovery for Early Modern Ageing Patients’KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 2PM - 3PM Dr Hannah Newton, University of Reading Inside the Sick Chamber: The History of Il ness in Six Objects To register to attend the conference send an email to illnessandrecovery@gmail.com by Monday 16 August or visit our website https://illnessandrecoveryconference.wordpress.com Clik here for more information