Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, “The genetic history of plague: From the stone age to the 18th century via the Roman Empire”

Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, will speak on “The Genetic History of Plague: From the Stone Age to the 18th Century via the Roman Empire” as part of the “What’s New in the Fall of the Roman Empire” Lecture Series, co-hosted by SoHP, the Department of History, and Department of the Classics.  The presentation is scheduled for Thursday, February 16^th from 5:30 pm- 6:45 pm in the Barker Center: Thompson Room (12 Quincy Street, Cambridge).