Shaadi Khoury
Understanding: Arts and Humanities Perspectives
These presentations explore the nature and effects of COVID-19 through the Arts and Humanities disciplines.
Essential Questions
- How are public health and racial politics related in the United States, South Africa and Palestine/Israel?
- What’s in a name? What is the effect of calling diseases the “Spanish Flu” and the “Chinese virus"? What was the experience of African-American during the Influenza Pandemic? How did health relate to racial politics in South Africa in 1918-1919, and what is the situation in Israel and Palestine today?
To Do:
- Watch the video.
- Participate in the discussion forums using these questions:
- What is the nature of the relationship between public health crises and racial politics?
- In what ways do public health crises highlight or exacerbate racial disparities and conflicts?
- In what ways do public health crises offer opportunities to ameliorate or repairracial disparities and conflicts?
- How do the racial disparities and conflicts associated with the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 compare to those present today with COVID-19?
- In addition to issues of race, how do epidemics and public health crises relate to questions of socioeconomic class and inequality? Of gender? Of war? Of colonialism and decolonization?
- What other questions would you like to discuss relating to the political and social dimensions of public health?
Program
Day 1: Tuesday, April 21
09:45 - 10:45
Opening Plenary: What Is COVID-19?
11:30 - 12:30
Understanding: STEM Perspectives
13:30-14:00
Stories of Survival
14:00 - 15:00
Understanding: Arts and Humanities Perspectives
Day 2: Wednesday, April 22
09:30 - 10:30
Overview and Plenary Session
10:30 - 11:15
Synthesis and Application: Guests
11:45 - 12:30
Synthesis and Application: King’s Academy Faculty
13:30 - 14:15
Closing Plenary
14:15-15:00
Closing Notes and Charge