My name is Scott Gabriel Knowles, I am a historian of disasters and since March 16, 2020 the host of COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts.
My guest is Christina Simko. Christina Simko is associate professor of sociology at Williams College. Her research focuses on violent pasts and the complexities that they create for identity and narrative. Her first book, The Politics of Consolation: Memory and the Meaning of September 11 (Oxford University Press) received an honorable mention for the Mary Douglas Prize from the American Sociological Association. In addition to her research on 9/11 memory, Simko’s published work has examined the legacies of the 1945 atomic bombings, the Equal Justice Initiative’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Alabama, and ongoing debates about the future of Confederate monuments. Her current book project, tentatively titled Suffering from Reminiscences, examines several memorials and museums to terrorism and their companion museums as windows onto contemporary trauma culture in the United States.
EP #483 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Poetry in Hard Times
EP #482 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: The Rush to Normal w/Gregg Gonsalves
EP #481 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Life and Death in Delta+Omicron w/Cassie Alexander
EP #480 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: COVID in India w/Aqsa Shaikh and Sonali Vaid
EP #478 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: Visualizing COVID
EP #477 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: Marked by COVID & Faces of COVID
EP #476 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: A Pandemic of Racism
EP #475 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: The Terrible Springtime
EP #474 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: A Performance by John Gorka
EP #473 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: Premonitions and Origins
EP #470 - 3.14.2022 - Pandemic Films
EP #469 - 3.14.2022 - The History of Technology and COVID w/Asif Siddiqi
EP #468 - 3.13.2022 - Mothers and Grandmothers in the Pandemic
EP #467 - 3.13.2022 - Brothers and Sisters in the Pandemic Part II
EP #466 - 3.12.2022 - COVID and Humanitarian Aid w/Julia Irwin
EP #465 - 3.11.2022 - The Architecture of COVID
EP #464 - 3.10.2022 - Disasters in Tonga
EP #463 - 3.10.2022 - COVID, Disinformation, and Disaster w/Kate Starbird
EP #462 - 3.10.2022 - Ukraine and COVID w/Maxym Prytula
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