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 #382 - 11.23.2021 - New Doctors in the Pandemic
EP #381 - 11.23.2021 - COVID in Japan w/Kyle Cleveland
EP #380 - 11.22.2021 - Legal Responses to COVID-19
EP #379 - 11.22.2021 - Pandemic Burnout w/Jenny Pickerill
EP #378 - 11.18.2021 - Disability Research in the COVID Era + Montana Update
EP #377 - 11.16.2021 - Pandemic Science and Indigenious Peoples w/Kim Tallbear
EP #376 - 11.15.2021 - Chronic Illness and COVID w/Brianne Benness
EP #375 - 11.10.2021 - 700,000 COVID Memorial Flags w/Suzanne Firstenberg
EP #374 - 11.09.2021 - The History of Infectious Respiratory Diseases
EP #373 - 11.08.2021 - Care Work in the Pandemic
EP #372 - 11.04.2021 - COVID, India, and the R P Shah Memorial Trust against Covid 19 w/Dr. Vipul Shah
EP #372 - 11.04.2021 - COVID, India, and the R P Shah Memorial Trust against Covid 19 w/Dr. Vipul Shah
EP #371 - 11.03.2021 - In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality w/Elizabeth Ellcessor
EP #370 - 11.02.2021 - Long COVID w/Teresa Tindle Akintonwa & Lisa McCorkell
EP #369 - 11.01.2021 - For Those We Lost w/founder Jennifer Sullivan
EP #368 - 10.31.2021 - Toronto International Festival of Authors w/Katherine E.Brown & Laurian Farrell
EP #367 - 10.29.2021 - History and Politics of Public Health Intervention in Kenya
EP #366 - 10.27.2021 - The Political Psychology of COVID-19
EP #365 -10.26.2021 - Public Health, Korean Culture, and COVID-19
EP #364 - 10.25.2021 - Vaccine Nationalism and Diplomacy w/Emma Kowal
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