{"id":11243,"date":"2020-06-29T10:48:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/rurality-and-rural-education-webinar-copy\/"},"modified":"2020-07-07T17:43:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:43:33","slug":"agglomeration-disintegration-and-social-distancing-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/agglomeration-disintegration-and-social-distancing-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Agglomeration, disintegration and social distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11243\" class=\"elementor elementor-11243\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f8301c5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f8301c5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41e0aeb7\" data-id=\"41e0aeb7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71622e40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71622e40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The School of Humanities invites you to an online seminar entitled <em>Agglomeration, disintegration and social distancing: Covid-19 and the archaeological lessons on communicable diseases, population size and settlement organisation at the Great Zimbabwe<\/em> by Dr Foreman Bandama.<\/p><p>Whether plagues reached Great Zimbabwe or not, this cannot be answered now due to several reasons.<\/p><p>Beyond paleoepidemiology, traditional proxies for archaeological contagion and their effects are not helpful and Great Zimbabwe\u2019s data lacks the goodness-of-fit to explore these indicators.<\/p><p>This seminar is a reflective study on how recent findings on the site\u2019s population size, density and settlement organisation would fare against a contagion of the nature of Covid-19.<\/p><p>Without cause-effect correlations, the discussion will also draw from historical Shona responses to epidemics to calibrate the archaeology of the site.<\/p><p>The seminar will take place as follows:<\/p><p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Wednesday 1 July 2020<\/p><p><strong>Time:<\/strong> 16h00\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Event Format:<\/strong> MS Teams Meeting (Click <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2YHjYoQ\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to join the event)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Humanities invites you to an online seminar entitled Agglomeration, disintegration and social distancing: Covid-19 and the archaeological lessons on communicable diseases, population size and settlement organisation at the Great Zimbabwe by Dr Foreman Bandama. 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