Segesser, DanielDanielSegesser0000-0001-8858-524X2025-04-092025-04-092022-07-08https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/209606Based on an analysis of an inter-cantonal conference in November 1918 this presentation proposes to look at the ways the global pandemic of the “Spanish flu” struck on local and regional environments in a neutral country. It will look at how these local environments reacted to a pandemic that had been kept as secret as possible due to the on-going war and was mixed up mixed up with early post-war developments of 1918/19 such as revolutionary strikes, the scarcity of food and the insecurity about what consequences the end of the war would have for a neutral country such as Switzerland. Its aim is also to analyse local reactions to the pandemic with a view to the local willingness to break with the past and imagine the world anew.en900 - History900 - History::940 - History of Europeconference_item10.48350/170988