Hearthside Salons with PageCraftWriting
Society & Culture
Archaeologist and researcher, Sarah Yeomans, talks to us about what ancient plagues and epidemics have to teach us about Covid-19. This talk is about "perspective and hope, we’re more well-positioned to deal with this current crisis than any other humans in history." Sarah takes us through the Antonine Plague, the Justinian Plague, The black plague "the worst we’ve ever seen," The Spanish Flu (a bird and a pig and loosey goosey RNA). She debunks conspiracy theories and talks about wet markets, the clash of disparate ecosystems and secondary consequences: the human reaction to the disease. Sarah asserts that at the end of any collective trauma there is a window of opportunity for real change. What might that change look like?
The Q&A portion has been edited for time and clarity.
Sarah offers some additional reading: https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/were-not-facing-second-spanish-flu/607354/
Here's what's coming up on Hearthside Salons.
Drea Clark - Producer, Festival Programmer - Laurels: Pursuing Festival Success
Sarah Moshman - Documentarian, Author - Empowered Filmmaking
Rebecca Field - Actor - A Star is Made: Just Do the Work
Sara Nesson - Oscar-Nominated Writer/Director/Producer - PosterGirl Persistence
Voices of Persistence: Filmmakers Behind Films on Inez Milholland and the American Suffrage Movement
Jeff Rona - Composer - Storytelling in Music: the Art and Tech of a Film Score
Lauren Over - Visual Artist - Taking the Commercial into the Fantastical
Meg Gifford - Writer, Chemistry Professor - The Scientific and Creative Mind (working with Lew Hunter)
Peres Owino -Writer, Actor, Director, Producer - Now the Lions Write the Story of the Hunt
Zaki Rubenstein - Writer/Director/Actor - Turning Real Life into Screen Gold
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Wanjiru Njendu - Writer, Director, 2020 Academy Member - What do you stand for? Risk and reward in filmmaking.
Tricia Nelson - Writer - Black Films Matter: Essential Viewing
Ellen Gerstein - Actor/Writer - How to claim your inner artist without exploding
Paul Goodenough - Writer/Producer/Eco-entrepreneur - Freaks, Heroes, and Futureshift
Monia Ayachi - Actor/Director/Producer/Singer/Songwriter - Between worlds, the artist belongs to all worlds
Michael Mack - Writer, Actor, Director - Euripides, Cervantes, Jim Crow
Durga McBroom - Singer, Songwriter - Pandemic, Riots, and Murder Hornets - The perfect cradle for creativity
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