Telling Stories: Medicine and Institutional Racism

Bettina Judd, Raymond Givens, Matthew Sandler, Rita Charon

Columbia University

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:00 pm EDT

Online Event

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
 
Bettina Judd, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality at the University of Washington
Raymond Givens, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University
Response by Matthew Sandler, Program Director in American Studies at Columbia University
Moderated by Rita Charon, Professor of Medicine at Columbia University
 
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 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Co-sponsored by:
 
Center for Science and Society
Columbia Global Centers
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics
Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
Weatherhead East Asian Institute