NYU will host “COVID-19 and Inequality,” a virtual panel series that will explore a variety of social problems the pandemic accelerated and made more visible, from health disparities to social distancing and urban segregation to the decline of public goods--Feb. 25-April-22.
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New York University will host “COVID-19 and Inequality,” a virtual panel series that will explore a variety of social problems the pandemic accelerated and made more visible, from health disparities to social distancing and urban segregation to the decline of public goods, with sessions on Feb. 25 (“COVID and Health Disparities”), March 11 (“The Pandemic and Public Goods), March 18 (“Protest and the Pandemic”), April 8 (“Cities After COVID”), and April 22 (“Contact and Distance in the Post-Pandemic Social World”).
The series, organized by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) and in partnership with NYU's Cross-Cutting Initiative on Inequality, is free and open to the public. An RSVP is required for each event; a video of each session will be uploaded to IPK’s YouTube channel.
Each session will be moderated by Eric Klinenberg, Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge. He is the author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life.
“COVID and Health Disparities”
February 25, 5-6 p.m. EST
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Speakers:
· Melody Goodman, associate dean for research and an associate professor of biostatistics at NYU School of Global Public Health
· Jacob William Faber, an associate professor at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and NYU’s Department of Sociology
· Chau Trinh-Shevrin, a professor of population health and medicine and vice chair for research in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
“The Pandemic and Public Goods”
March 11, 5-6 p.m. EST
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Speakers:
· Alex Barnard, an assistant professor of sociology at NYU and author of Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America
· R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, an associate professor in the Sociology of Education program in the Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and author of Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling
· Ingrid Gould Ellen, Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, a faculty director at the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, and author of Sharing America's Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration
· Gianpaolo Baiocchi, a sociologist and an ethnographer at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and co-author of Popular Democracy: The Paradox of Participation
“Protest and the Pandemic”
March 18, 5-6 p.m. EST
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Speakers:
· Stephen Duncombe, an associate professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and author of Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
· Jeffrey Goodwin, a professor of sociology at NYU and author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991
· Linda Gordon is professor of history and University Professor of the Humanities at NYU and author of The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
· Olutoyin Demuren, an NYU doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology
“Cities After COVID”
April 8, 5-6 p.m. EST
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Speakers:
· Thomas J. Sugrue, a professor in NYU’s departments of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, director NYU’s Cities Collaborative, and author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis
· Shlomo Angel, a professor of city planning at NYU’s Marron Institute and author of Planet of Cities
· Vanessa Léon, an assistant clinical professor of urban planning and public service and director of the Urban Planning program at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service
· Kimberly Johnson, a professor in NYU’s departments of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Wilf Family Department of Politics and author of Reforming Jim Crow
“Contact and Distance in the Post-Pandemic Social World”
April 22, 5-6 p.m. EST
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Speakers:
· Natasha Dow Schüll, a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and author of ADDICTION BY DESIGN: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
· Paul DiMaggio, a professor of sociology at NYU and editor of Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States
· danah boyd, a partner researcher at Microsoft Research, founder and president of Data & Society Research Institute, and author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
· Meredith Broussard, a data journalism professor at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World