Event Description
While urban life has been overturned by the pandemic, this crisis invites us to think more broadly how the urban is an emergent form that can be redesigned to promote life and human flourishing. The pandemic has reactivated hidden circuits of racialization and social differentiation. The very conditions of living with the virus have posed new questions about the limits of the human, and the possibility of sociability. As an early epicenter, New York City has been forced to question anew its contested globality—both global capital and its dependence on labor and precarity. Over six weeks, the series will pick up these themes related to New York City and its global peers; pandemic urbanisms; race, climate, and housing; and utopian/dystopian imaginaries.
Event Speakers
- Zeynep Tufekci, McColl Term Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Response by Rishi Goyal, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University
- Moderated by Anupama Rao, Tow Associate Professor of History at Barnard College
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required. For more information, please visit the event webpage. Part of the Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms series.
Hosted by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Center for Science and Society. Co-sponsored by:
