SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE AND TOPICS OF THEIR PAPERS

1. Bristow, Assoc.Prof NK (History Dept, Univ of Puget Sound)-`"You can't do anything for influenza": Doctors & nurses in the Influenza Epidemic in the USA'

3. Curson, Prof P. & McCracken, Dr K.(School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University)-`Flu Downunder-A demographic & geographic analysis of the 1919 Pandemic in Sydney, New South Wales'

4. Echenberg, Prof M.(History Dept, McGill University)-`The dog that did not bark: Evidence for the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Senegal'

5. Echeverri Davila, Ms B.(Madrid)-`The Spanish Influenza seen from Spain'

6. Ellison, JG (Anthropology Dept, Univ of Florida)-`A fierce hunger: tracing the impacts of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in south-west Tanzania'

7. Herda, Dr PS (Women's Studies Programme, Univ of Auckland)-`Disease and colonialism in the Pacific-The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Western Polynesia'

8. Herring, Assoc.Prof A. (Anthropology Dept, McMaster University) and Sattenspiel, Dr L. (Anthropology Dept, Univ of Missouri-Columbia)-`Death in winter-The Spanish Flu in the Canadian Subartic'

9. Hyslop, Dr A. (History Dept, Australian National University)-`"Lots of people blamed the soldiers": Australian recollections of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic'

10. Iijima, Prof W. (Economics Faculty, Yokohama National University)-` The Spanish Flu in China, 1918-20'

11. Jenkins, Dr VS (American Studies Dept, Maryland University)-`The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic: What the American people knew'

12. Johnson, NP (Geography Dept, Cambridge University)-`Aspects of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in England and Wales'

13. Kelm, Dr M-E (History Program, University of Northern British Columbia)-`First Nations' Perspectives on the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19'

14. Kendal, Dr AP (School of Public Health, Emory University) and WP Glezen (Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine)-` Pandemic influenza and pregnancy: Lessons from the past and considerations about the use of live attenuated vaccines'

15. Kilbourne, Prof E. (New York Medical College)-`A virologist's perspective on the 1918-19 Pandemic'

16. Koblenz, Dr L. (History Dept, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)-`A judgment in time: Medical responses to the 1918-19 Influenza Epidemic in the United States'

17. Linnanmaki, E. (Dept of Economic & Social History, University of Helsinki)-`Spanish Flu in Finnish cities 1918-20'

18. Liu, Prof W-T (Institute of Biotechnology in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University) and Chan, Mr C-H (Dept of Microbiology, Chung Shan Medical and Dental College)-`The evolution of Influenza A/H1N1 in Taiwan'

19. Mamelund, S-E (Division for Social & Economic Research, Statistics Norway)-`Estimating the death toll of Spanish Influenza 1918-19: the case of Norway'

20. Mihaly, A. (Melbourne University)-`Epidemics resulting from wars: a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919 as experienced by AIF troops quarantined in Port Phillip Bay, Australia'

21. Mueller, J. (University of Hannover)-`What's in a name? Spanish Influenza in Africa and what local names say about the pandemic'

22. Musambachime, Prof MC (Dept of History, University of Namibia)-`Consequences of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 on Zambia and Malawi'

23. Noymer, Mr A. & Garenne, Dr M. (Centre Francais sur la Population et le Developpement)-`Long-term effects of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic on sex ratios of mortality'

24. Olm, K. (Karl-Sudhofff Insitute for History of Medicine, University of Leipzig)-`The Spanish Flu in Saxony'

25. Page, Prof M. (History Dept, East Tennessee State University)-`The "fluenza" on the road to Vua: a Nyasaland case study of a medical crisis and colonial politics'

26. Ramanna, Dr M. (S.I.E.S. College, Mumbai University)-`Coping with the Influenza Pandemic 1918-1919: the Bombay experience'

27. Reddi, SJ (Faculty of Social Studies & Humanities, University of Mauritius)-`A case study of the Influenza of 1919 in Mauritius'

28. Rice, Assoc.Prof G (Dept of History, Canterbury University)-`Japan and New Zealand in the 1918-19 Flu Pandemic: comparative perspectives on reponses and crisis management'

29. Sage, MW (Pittsburgh)-`A nurse looks at the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 through the memories of aged individuals in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and environs'

30. Schoenbaum, Dr S. (Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England, Providence)-`Lessons stimulated by the 1918 Pandemic on the transmission and impact of influenza'

31. Snacken, Dr R. (Scientific Institute of Public Health-Louis Pasteur, Brussels)-`What can be learned from the Spanish Flu for the next Influenza Pandemic?'

32. Steele, Dr VW (Bozeman, Montana)-`The 1918 Influenza in Montana'

33. Taubenberger, Dr JK (Department of Cellular Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington)-`Genetic characterization of the 1918 Influenza virus'

34. Thomas, C. (Australian War Memorial, Canberra)-`"All at sea": Spanish Influenza, maritime quarantine and Australian troopships, 1918-1919'

35. Vasold, Dr M. (Grosskarolinenfeld, Germany)-`The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 in Nuremberg'

36. Wakimura, Dr K. (Faculty of Economics, Osaka City University)-`The Indian experience of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic. why the mortality was so huge'

37. Witte, W. (Institut fuer Geschichte der Medizin, University of Heidelberg)-`The Influenza Epidemic of 1918/19 in Baden'

38. Zylberman, Dr P. (CERMES, INSERM, Paris)- `A holocaust in a holocaust- the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic in France and the Great War'.

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