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 #402 - 1.19.2022 - The Relentless School Nurse w/ Robin Cogan
EP #401 - 1.18.2022 - Interfaith Dialogue and Religious Institutions in the Pandemic w/Rabbi Mike Harvey
EP #400 - 1.17.2022 - COVID and Engineering Education w/Sharon Walker
EP #399 - 1.14.2022 - New Research: COVID, Digital Technology, and Plastic Waste in South Korea
EP #398 - 1.13.2022 - The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) in the Pandemic Era
EP #397 - 1.12.2022 - The COVID-19 Racial Justice Syndemic
EP #396 - 1.12.2022 - The COVID-19 Comission
EP #395 - 01.10.2022 - Disaster Justice
EP #394 - 12.22.2021 - A Visit w/Jon Mooallem
EP #393 - 12.22.2021 - Public Health Update w/Esther Chernak & Tom Hipper
EP #392 - 12.22.2021 - Marked by COVID Update w/Kristin Urquiza
EP #391 - 12.20.2021 - Year of the Nurse Part 2 w/Cassie Alexander
EP #390 - 12.16.2021 - The Long Haul w/Chimere L. Smith
EP #389 - 12.13.2021 - Public History and the Pandemic
EP #388 - 12.08.2021 - Nutrition and COVID w/Dr. William Li
EP #387 - 12.09.2021 - A Teacher and Students Discuss COVID @ KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
EP #386 - 12.08.2021 - Human-Animal Intections in the Pandemic
EP #385 - 12.07.2021 - The WhoWeLost Project w/ Martha Greenwald
EP #384 - 12.06.2021 - Surviving COVID and Experiencing Long COVID w/Majorie Roberts (And Yet Again I Smile)
EP #383 - 11.24.2021 - Black Insercurity at the End of the World w/Justin Mann
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