2002 Conference

Inter-American Institute

for advanced studies in cultural history

Presents:

Disease and Disaster in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America

A Conference to be held April 13, 2002

at the

701 Pennsylvania Avenue N. W.

Washington DC

Registration fee $35.00, seating is limited, register early.

Rooms available at the Washington Plaza Hotel 202-842-1300

(Use conference reservation identification number 1873 for special rate)

Saturday Sessions

Open to the public by registration

Navy Memorial Auditorium

Schedule of Papers

8:30 - 8:45 Introductory remarks by James B. Kiracofe

8:45-9:30 The Great Killers in Precolumbian America, Suzanne A. Alchon

9:30 -10:15 Why Virgin Soil Epidemics Played a Minor Role in the 16th-Century Demographic Collapse of Mexico, Robert McCaa

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:15 Large Epidemics of Hemorrhagic Fever in Colonial Mexico, 1576 and 1736, Rodolfo Acuna-Soto, MD

11:15 - 12:00 Weather Patterns and Disease Outbreaks, David Stahle

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:45 Andean Epidemic, 1524-25, Smallpox or Bartonellosis? James B. Kiracofe and John Marr, MD

1:45 - 2:30 Sandfly Vector of Bartonellosis, Richard Andre

2:30 - 2:45 ` Break

2:45 - 3:30 Syphilis among the Taino, Mythology and Art, Dicey Taylor

3:30-4:15 Pre-Columbian Syphilis: Paleopathology, Bruce M. Rothschild, MD

4:15 - 5:00 Summary and Overview: Future Scientific Methodologies, John Marr, MD

By invitation

at the Washington Plaza Hotel

9:30 - 12:30

Jack Woodall, Moderator

Working Round Table Discussions among speakers and invited guests,

Graduate students and doctoral candidates are particularly encouraged to attend these meetings.

New World Hemorrhagic Fever: Towards predictive intervention

Smallpox or Bartonellosis: Methodological approaches to identification

Syphilis: New World/Old World Origins, The State of Research