Out of Isolation Series

Out of Isolation examines the intersection of COVID-19 with research on race and ethnicity, class and gender, labor and poverty, access and public education, climate change and other “preconditions."

Hear from speakers on how Black communities survive oppression, how environmental justice and the pandemic are linked, and what the virus means for Indian Country. These are the kinds of questions that require humanists’ ways of seeing not just to supplement public debate and policy-making but to shape the way we collectively reimagine what’s next.

Fall 2020 Events

 

September 22, 7:00 p.m.

"How Do We Survive, Resist, and Heal Oppressive Realities?"
Speakers: Nkechinyelum Chioneso (Psychology, Florida A&M University) and Carla D. Hunter (Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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October 22, 4:00 p.m.

“Washing with No Water: Environmental Justice, Deregulation and Climate Change Amidst a Pandemic”
Speaker: Rachel Havrelock (English, University of Illinois at Chicago)
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November 10, 4:00 p.m.

"Manifesting Pandemic Destiny: Parsing the Tense and Aspect of Settler Immunopolitics in Indian Country”
Speaker: Jenny Davis (Anthropology and American Indian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Video coming soon

 

 

 

Spring 2021 Events

 

February 3, 4:00 p.m.

“Infectious Detention: Migrants, COVID-19, and the Racial Politics of Health”
Speaker: Jonathan Inda (Latina/o Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Virtual Zoom event.

 

 

 

 

March 4, 4:00 p.m.

“How to Have History in a Syndemic: Lessons from HIV/AIDS and COVID-19”
Speaker: Jennifer Brier (History, University of Illinois at Chicago)
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