Covid Conversations - Center for the Humanities @ CMU

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Here is the video of the wonderful presentation. Thank you all so much!

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Joining us from Spain on 4/22! Dr. Monica Lalanda - https://monicalalanda.com/

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Joining us on 4/22 from Taiwan! Laura Gao -  https://www.lauragao.com/

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Event information! Registration here  - https://bit.ly/3sxzSh8.

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We have the honor of speaking with Raymond W Holman Jr. 

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Link to registration:

https://cmu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sf-qrqDsjGtwDYmT2eqBkNaSicB592-Jt

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COVID Conversations Part I -Oral Narratives from a Global Perspective. Virtual Roundtable on February 11th 4-5:30pm ET featuring Andalusia Knoll Soloff, Sasheenie Moodley, and Rosemary Kayess. The event is free but registration is required.

Link to the event page - WITH VIDEO for those who were not able to attend. 

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For the first meeting in our Spring 2021 series, we are excited to welcome back Jewel Mullen, who last led the Health Humanities Research Seminar during its inaugural term of Fall 2018. Dr. Mullen's upcoming presentation,

Fantastic Lecture with Dr. Jewel Mullen.

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A Collection of Corona Narratives

Sasheenie Moodley // The corona (Covid-19) virus has far-reaching consequences that are not exclusive to any single class, race, or ethnic group. In fact, these consequences are more ‘shared’ than …

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COVID-19: Excluding people with disabilities leaves them without information that could save their lives

The importance of being informed about the coronavirus – from how to recognize the symptoms, to what to do to manage day-to-day life – is essential for all, and not to include people with disabilities is to leave them “without information that could save their lives”. That’s according to Rosemary Kayess, vice-chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, who has spoken candidly to UN News from home in Australia, about her own fears and the intense challenges that people with disabilities are living with, during the pandemic.

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Understanding race in a pandemic

Sasheenie Moodley // Dr. Ebony Hilton explains that there is a painful intersection between the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States. That is, pandemic and pro…

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In New York City, indigenous Mexicans battle coronavirus amid language barriers, bias

After the deaths of several community members from COVID-19, "their greatest fear is to end up in a mass grave in New York City, far from home."