Segment 3: "John Kelly on The Black Death and the Irish Famine. (2009)" [podcast 20 in 39 sec]

John Kelly is the author of The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (2005) and, most recently, has completed a work focusing on the Irish famine of the mid-19th century: The Graves Were Walking (2009). Kelly is also author of more than ten books on science. This talk by him, presented in association with the academic conference "Rhetorics of Plague: Early/Modern Trajectories of Biohazard," and sponsored by the University at Albany Department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences, was recorded and edited by University at Albany Documentary Studies students Shanna Goldenberg and Tim Mahr.