Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms Event Series

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Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms Event Series

March 23, 2021 - May 4, 2021
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Tues 3.23.21 6:00pm
The Future Repeats Itself:  Historical Roots of Anti-Chinese Animus in the time of COVID
[Register Here]
Keynote Speaker: Ari Larissa Heinrich (Australian National University)
Respondent: Eugenia Lean (EALAC, Columbia University)
Moderator: Lydia Liu (EALAC/ICLS, Columbia University)
Co-sponsor: Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
This lecture is also part of our year-long Understanding Systemic Racism series.

 

Tues 3.30.21  6:00pm
Navigating a Pandemic: Between the Social and the Medical
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Keynote Speaker: Zeynep Tufekci (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Respondent: Rishi Goyal (ICLS, Columbia University)
Moderator: Anupama Rao (ICLS, Columbia University)

 

Tues 4.6.21  6:00pm
Book Panel
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror 1817-2020

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Author: Anjuli Raza Kolb (English, University of Toronto)
Respondent: Elizabeth Povinelli (Anthropology, Columbia University)
Moderator: Stathis Gourgouris (Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
Co-sponsor: Department of English and Comparative Literature

 

Fri. 4.9.21  - Sat. 4.10.21  12:00pm
Hackathon for the Humanities
Invisible Cities: 24-hour Student Design Challenge

[Registration is Required]

Faculty Facilitators:
Lan Li (Medical Humanities, Rice University)
Anthony Acciavatti (Architecture, Yale University)
Alumni Facilitators: Malvika Jolly (GS’19), Adam Lee John GS’18)
Open to all undergraduates at U.S. institutions. 

Prizes will be awarded on Tues 4.20.21. 
Visit icls.columbia.edu for more details.

 

Weds. 4.14.21  6:00pm
Telling Stories: Medicine and Institutional Racism
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Panelists:

Bettina Judd (Gender, Women and Sexuality, U Washington)

Raymond Givens (Internal Medicine, Columbia University)

Respondent: Matthew Sandler (American Studies, Columbia University)

Moderator: Rita Charon (Medical Humanities and Ethics, Columbia University)
Co-sponsor: Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics

 

 

Tues 4.27.21  6:00pm
“Home Sick”: Reimagining Indoor/Outdoor Space in the Pandemic
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Panelists:

Annmarie Adams (Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University)
Charles Branas (Epidemiology, Columbia University)
Respondent: Laura Kurgan (GSAPP, Columbia University)
Moderator: Reinhold Martin (GSAPP and Buell Center, Columbia University)
Co-sponsor: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

 

Weds 4.28.21  7:30pm
Urban Precarity and Indigenous Designs
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Panelists:

Maria John (History, University of Massachusetts Boston)
Río Oxas (Activist, RAHOK)
Rohit Negi (School of Global Affairs, Ambedkar University)
Respondent: Merlin Chowkwanyun (Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University)
Moderator: Pamela Smith (Center for Science and Society, Columbia University)

 

Tues 5.4.21  6:00pm
From Monomyth to Multimyth: BIPOC Children’s Fantasists Discuss Globalism, Possible Futures, and Writing in the Age of Pandemic
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Authors:
Sayantani DasGupta (ICLS, Columbia University)
Carlos Hernandez (English, CUNY)
David Bowles (Texas Institute of Letters Governing Council)
Moderator: Neni Panourgiá (Justice-in-Education, Columbia University)
Closing Remarks: Arden Hegele and Rishi Goyal

 

This series was organized by the Director of Medical Humanities at ICLS Rishi Goyal (Emergency Medicine and ICLS, Columbia University) and Medical Humanities Fellow Arden Hegele (Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and ICLS, Columbia University).

 

Cosponsorship has been provided by:
Center for Science and Society
Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics