Repression of Migrants and Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Learning from 21st-Century and 18th-Century Syria
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Time: 4:30pm-6:00pm EDT
Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join us to hear from Aaron David Shakow, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
This talk will discuss tuberculosis among Syrian migrants in Lebanon and its relationship to the international migration regime. Shakow will trace the evolution of today’s system of interstate border controls from European encounters with sickness in and around Syria during the eighteenth century. What is the ongoing legacy of these encounters? How can the history of public health inform efforts to support migrants in the present day?
This talk will discuss tuberculosis among Syrian migrants in Lebanon and its relationship to the international migration regime. Shakow will trace the evolution of today’s system of interstate border controls from European encounters with sickness in and around Syria during the eighteenth century. What is the ongoing legacy of these encounters? How can the history of public health inform efforts to support migrants in the present day?
Speaker remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard University.