Trinity College

Presented by The Trinity Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (TIIS) and The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life Albert Camus’ The Plague describes what happens when the Bubonic Plague strikes the French colonial Algerian city of Oran. Published just after World War II, the novel is at once a careful examination of the impact of an epidemic on a modern urban community and a metaphorical account of the human condition generally. As the world continues to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, four Trinity faculty members will discuss the novel from their respective fields of medical anthropology, 20th-century French literature, European philosophy, and Christian theology. Shane Ewegen, Philosophy Tamsin Jones, Religious Studies Sara Kippur, Language and Culture Studies James Trostle, Anthropology Chaired by Mark Silk, Director, Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life