Animal Turn Research Cluster Co-directors, Dr. Jamie Jones (English) and Dr. Jane Desmond (Anthropology) invite you to join us for a conversation with Lucinda Cole who will present an overview of her book in progress, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities, then preview a chapter focused on the biopolitics of enzootic and zoonotic contagion in early modern sermons, animal husbandry, and The Merchant of Venice.