Arts & Humanities Humanities and Social Science Researchers Respond to Covid-19 Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, humanities and social science scholars share their thoughts on the crisis in a series of think pieces and video talks collected here.
Arts & Humanities Reisepionierin Ida Pfeiffer: Wie eine Wienerin die Welt eroberte Mit Mitte vierzig, inmitten der Zeit des Biedermeier, beschloss Ida Pfeiffer, dass ihr die Rolle als Hausfrau und Mutter nicht mehr genügte. Also wurde sie Weltreisende.
Arts & Humanities Covid-19 and World War One Nursing In October 1916, reflecting on nursing equipment shortages on the Romanian Front, British nurse Yvonne Fitzroy noted, “What we haven’t got we invent, and what we can’t invent, we do without”.
Arts & Humanities Long-Term Impacts of the 1918–19 Influenza During the coronavirus crisis, the influenza disease, the biggest killing infectious disease in modern history, is often mentioned as the nearest comparator. Can the stories of its survivors inform surviving Covid-19?