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DESCRIPTION:Irish FeverA lecture by Meredith Linn (Bard Graduate Center)Dur
 ing the Irish Potato Famine of the nineteenth century\, about one million 
 people perished from starvation and disease while more than two million fl
 ed Ireland in fear and desperation\, with some 850\,000 landing in New Yor
 k City. Many found themselves impoverished\, taking dangerous jobs\, and b
 attling miserable living conditions in an unfamiliar urban landscape. In h
 er new book\, Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness\, Injury\, and Healin
 g in New York City\, 1845–1875\, Meredith B. Linn explores three kinds of 
 afflictions—typhus fever\, tuberculosis\, and work-related injuries—that d
 isproportionately affected Irish immigrants\, tracing how existing medical
  ideas and technologies intersected with American prejudices to further co
 nspire against this once culturally distinct group. In this talk\, she wil
 l draw upon extensive archaeological remains\, folklore records\, and hist
 orical documents to present what she terms a 'visceral historical archaeol
 ogy'—a perspective rooted in historical archaeology and medical anthropolo
 gy—to illuminate the experiences of these newcomers\, and the history of A
 merican reception of immigrants more broadly.Meredith B. Linn is associate
  professor of historical archaeology at Bard Graduate Center. She holds a 
 PhD from Columbia University\, an MA from the University of Chicago\, and 
 a BA from Swarthmore College. Her research projects have focused upon the 
 health-related experiences of Irish immigrants in nineteenth-century New Y
 ork City and upon daily life in Seneca Village\, a community founded by Af
 rican American landowners and destroyed by the City of New York for the co
 nstruction of Central Park. Linn was part of the team that excavated Senec
 a Village and is a coauthor\, with Diana diZerega Wall\, Nan Rothschild\, 
 and Cynthia Copeland\, of the archaeological site report. She has publishe
 d book chapters and journal articles about both projects and most recently
 \, her monograph\, Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness\, Injury\, and H
 ealing in New York City\, 1845–1875 (University of Tennessee Press and the
  Society for Historical Archaeology). Linn is currently working on a book 
 with Rothschild and Wall about Seneca Village and a 3D digital visualizati
 on\, Envisioning Seneca Village\, with Gergely Baics\, Leah Meisterlin\, a
 nd Myles Zhang.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Irish Fever
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