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 #344 - 09.23.2021 - Anthropause w/Yiyun Kang
EP #343 - 09.16.2021 - Young and Severely Affected by COVID
EP #342 - 09.15.2021 - Crisis: A Term for These Times w/Rosalind Williams
EP #341 - 09.14.2021 - COVID Memorials w/Guest Host Kristin Urquiza
EP #340 - 09.13.2021 - The Anthro-Shift: Climate, Risk, and COVID-19
EP #339 - 09.13.2021 - Doctors with Disabilities in the Fight against COVID
EP #338 - 09.09.2021 - Classroom Teachers in the Pandemic
EP #337 - 09.09.2021 - Disaster Memory in East Asia
EP #336 - 09.08.2021 - Humanitarian Aid in the COVID-19 Era w/Peter Redfield
EP #335 - 09.07.2021 - Special Guest Host Episode with Kristen Urquiza
EP #334 - 09.06.2021 - Teaching Medieval History in the COVID Era
EP #333 - 09.02.2021 - Disability Rights, Activism, and COVID w/Ashley Shew
EP #332 - 09.01.2021 - Maternal and Child Health in the Pandemic w/Cecila Tomari
EP #331 - 09.01.2021 - Breathing Communities in South Korea
EP #330 - 08.31.2021 - Social Justice and Public Health in Louisana
EP #329 - 08.26.2021 - Caring for the Dying: Coping with Death in the Age of COVID
EP #328 - 08.25.2021 - Global Health in the Covid Era w/Adia Benton
EP #327 - 08.24.2021 - Emergency Management Update w/emergency managers
EP #326 - 08.23.2021 - COVID, Vulnerability, and the Aftermath with Todd Meyers
EP #325 - 08.23.2021 - COVID Research & the National Assembly Futures Institute of Korea
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