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[PARTNERS] “Certainly, one can draw parallels in terms of broader environmental and structural changes in society — we’ve seen this with COVID and air travel and how easy it is for disease to spread. Arguments have been made that the reason why pandemics like the Black Death, syphilis, and others, have spread so quickly was because of trade. So there seems to be the issue of technological change over time and how that will allow disease to spread. And that’s nothing to say of the encounter between Europe and the Americas.” Cristian Berco is a Professor of History at Bishop’s University. His research focuses on the social history of the body, mainly through work on sexuality, disease and ethnicity. A long-time collaborator of Van Grimde Corps Secrets, he participates in reflections pertaining to the social, technological, artistic, human and scientific changes caused or exacerbated by the pandemic. #vangrimdecorpssecrets #vgcs #contemporarydance #dansecontemporaine #digitalmedia #numerique #montreal #webseries #art #montrealart #cristianberco #history #bishopuniversity