In early April, a team of EMGS students and scholars initiated the Global Studies Covid19 Research Forum, since a pandemic like this poses a particular challenge to the academic field of Global Studies. Expectations are high that the new field has something to offer on the topic. We shall

(on Laura Spinney, 1918. Die Welt Im Fieber. Wie die Spanische Grippe die Gesellschaft veränderte, München: Carl Hanser Verlag, 4. Auflage, 2020. / English original: Pale Rider. The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World, London: Vintage Publishing 2017.) Laura Spinney has written a best-selling book,

(on Alfred W. Crosby, America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, Cambridge University Press, 2003; originally published as Epidemic and Peace, 1918. Greenwood Press 1976) The Spanish Flu of 1918 seems to be, at least in the American press, the most commonly invoked historical comparison and the place where lessons for Covid-19

(on Tognotti, E. (2009). The Rise and Fall of Syphilis in Renaissance Europe. Journal of Medical Humanities, 30(2), 99–113) Indirect knowledge prevails in the public discourse about health and medicine, and what we have been confronted with lately with the Corona pandemic illustrates and affirms that. The point is that discourses