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 #461 - 3.10.2022 - Disasters and COVID in Latin America w/Mark Healey
EP #460 - 3.9.2022 - The Pandemic Imaginary w/Christos Lynteris
EP #459 - 3.9.2022 - War, Refugees, and the Pandemic w/Deborah Amos
EP #458 - 3.9.2022 - Ukraine and Disaster: Past & Present
EP #457 - 3.8.2022 - Science and the Pandemic: Followup w/Laura Helmuth
EP #456 - 3.8.2022 - COVID and Mental Health w/Jessi Gold
EP #455 - 3.8.2022 - Public Health in a Historical Perspective w/Michael Yudell
EP #454 - 3.8.2022 - The Pandemic’s True Death Toll
EP #453 - 3.7.2022 - Promise House: Heather’s Story w/Krista Rowe
EP #452 - 3.7.2022 - American Pandemic Culture w/James McWilliams
EP #451 - 3.5.2022 - COVID in Chile Update
EP #450 - 3.4.2022 - Research and Policy Action for Children in the Pandemic
EP #449 - 3.4.2022 - The Government of Emergency
EP #448 - 3.3.2022 - Pandemic Culture Update w/Virginia Heffernan
EP #447 - 3.3.2022 - Physicians and Patients in the Pandemic
EP #446 - 3.3.2022 - Hospital Systems in American History w/Guian McKee
EP #445 - Comedy in the Pandemic Era Update w/Kurt Braunohler
EP #444 - 3.2.2022 - COVID and the Law Update w/Kathleen Bergin
EP #443 - 3.2.2022 - COVID in Texas: A Discussion Between Friends
EP #442 - 3.2.2022 - Discussing ’Building Back Better’ is Neoliberal Post-Disaster Reconstruction
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