Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael
Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our later time zones so thank you for sticking with us. And of course to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
Continues to cast a shadow over the campaigning with nearly half a 1000000 new infections in the past week mike hanna has more from washington d. C. On the Campaign Efforts the 3 states hes visiting in the course of the day he took very easily and 2016 but now all polls indicate that its neck and neck with Joe Biden Biden has shrunk that gap the lead that trump had 4 years ago shrinking a significantly President Trump focusing on the states because they are critical to him if hes going to be able to win the election and more to do with in the white house. It is really a police fired tear gas at protesters over a renewed restrictions to limit the spread of covert 19th a 2nd wave is hitting your apart record new infections are being reported across the continent. The African Union is calling for calm in tanzania ahead of local and National Elections on whether to say police in the semi autonomous zones of our region of denied firing bullets of protesters a Major Opposition Party says 8 p
Chalons has more to mean you already be there resized is saying that the armenians violated. The cease fire that is being denied by the armenian side and Prime Minister. Says the army absolutely will adhere to this one pots as we have already said this is attempts number 3 the 1st on the 10th of october mediated by moscow collapsed very swiftly and the 2nd just over a week ago last barely minutes. Thousands a celebrated in chile where with most of the votes counted a referendum to change the constitution is on course to pass with an overwhelming majority the government agreed to the referendum following demonstrations chiles current constitution was imposed 4 decades ago under the military dictatorship of. France has registered a new record of daily infections with more than 52000 confirmed cases on d sunday several of the European Countries are imposing stricter measures as corona virus infections. A special parliamentary session is under way in thailand as the country grapples with a
A wave of protests what demonstrators say theyll keep up their demands for reform and are giving him street days to resign well get a live update from bangkok. Plus u. S. Intelligence officials accuse your friend and russia trying to meddle in the Upcoming Elections saying tehran and moscow expects access to Voter Registration details and they say read is behind threatening emails sent to American Voters. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us germany is again reporting a Record Number of corona virus infections the robert culp institute for Disease Control has recorded more than 11000 daily cases the man responsible for handling the pandemic German Health minister. Announced wednesday that he himself. Has tested positive. But strict social distancing measures during cabinet meetings means other ministers will not have to quarantine a Government Spokesperson said well authorities in the southern german state of beriah are warning of even tighter restrictions if infection rates