Session #1: History

• Owen Jarus, “Twenty of the Worst Epidemics and Pandemics in History” (2020)
• Adam McBride, “The Black Death led to the demise of feudalism. Could this pandemic have a similar effect?,” Salon, April 26, 2020

Session #2: Literature

• Jill Lepore, “What Our Contagion Fables are Really About,” New Yorker, March 23, 2020
• Read one of the following:
  • Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (429 b.c.)
  • Boccaccio, Decameron (1353)
  • Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale (1392)
  • Shelley, The Last Man (1826)
  • Poe, The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
  • London, The Scarlet Plague (1912)
  • Camus, La Peste (1947)
  • King, The Stand (1978)
  • Ma, Severance (2018)
    

Session #3: Law

• William Fisher & Talha Syed, A War Not Easily Won: Curbing Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries (2020 draft)
  • read the Introduction, Chapter 2, and one of the chapters in Part II

Session #4: Education

• Harvard University: “Best Practices: Online Pedagogy” (2020)
• Cathy Li and Farah Lalani, “The COVID-19 pandemic has changed education forever. This is how,” World Economic Forum, April 29, 2020