From April 26 to July 19, 2022, IESP-UERJ presents the international lecture cycle Making Sense of the Post-Covid World: Continuities and Changes, a partnership between the Institute, the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung (HIS), the Lateinamerika-Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) and the Maria Sibylla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila). Coordinated by professors Mariana Cavalcanti (CASA Group) and José Maurício Domingues (NETSAL), together with Sergio Costa (FU Berlin/Mecila) and Wolfgang Knöbl (HIS-Hamburg), the series of eight seminars presented by researchers from different origins and fields of Social Sciences, discusses the persistent effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on societies: its impact on social inequality, international politics, feelings of local, national and global solidarity, among other issues
On Tuesdays, starting at 1 pm (BRT), the lectures will be presented in English and will take place through Zoom Meetings digital platform, in addition to being broadcast live, through Mecila’s YouTube channel. Those interested in participating will be able to register for each of the seminars through a specific link for each date. Check out the summary of each lecture here and, below, the programme:
- 04/26/2022: The Great Online Migration. Covid-19 and the Virtualization of American Public Schools – by Marion Fourcade (University of California, Berkeley) – Register here
- 05/10/2022: Impacts on Global Development and Economy – by Robert Boyer (Institute of the Americas) – Register here
- 05/17/2022: Impacts of the Pandemic on Global Health and Vital Inequalities – by Nisia Trindade (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz) – Register here
- 05/31/022: The Social Contract in the 21st Century – by John Torpey (City University of New York) – Register here
- 06/07/2022: On Earth Ethic – Q&A with Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
- 06/14/2022: Labor and Inequalities During and After the Pandemic – by Sara Stevano (SOAS University of London)
- 06/28/2022: The Space Between Us: Bio-philosophies of Identities in Pandemic Space – by Yasmeen Arif (Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR)
- 07/05/2022: The Pandemic as Disaster: African Perspectives – by Elisio Macamo (Universität Basel)
- 07/19/2022: Conclusions– presented by the coordinators of the series
The international partnership between the four research institutions is also part of the IESP-UERJ postgraduate course schedule for the first half of 2022, with internal discussion and preparatory sessions for students enrolled in the discipline. The lecture series Making Sense of the Post-Covid World: Continuities and Changes is sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, through the Anneliese Maier-Preisträger 2018 award, received by Prof. José Maurício Domingues.
