Please join COVID-Calls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Free and open to the public, Monday-Friday at 5pm EST, starting March 16.
Please spread the word #COVIDCalls, and send questions to host Scott Gabriel Knowles (sgk23@drexel.edu). See his Twitter account @USofDisaster for daily updates and call-in links. Listen to the archive of all episodes on Soundcloud.
Upcoming Calls
Tu, April 7 DISASTER, RESILIENCE, AND DATA
Daniel Aldrich, Northeastern University | Robert Soden, Columbia University
W, April 8 COVID-19 AND CRIME
Rob Kane, Drexel University
Th, April 9 DISASTER RESEARCH IN A TIME OF CRISIS
Lori Peek, Natural Hazards Center
F, April 10 PANDEMICS IN HISTORY
Julia Engelschalt, Bielefeld University | Jacob Remes, NYU
M, April 13 PANDEMIC, JOURNALISM, AND END TIMES
Bryan Walsh, Axios
Tu, April 14 MEMORIALS
Jay Aronson, Carnegie Mellon University
W, April 15 PLANNING FOR DISASTER
Lee Clarke
Past Calls
M, March 16 Gigi Gronval, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
T, March 17 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic + Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine
W, March 18 Sarah DeYoung, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
Th, March 19 Esther Chernak, Drexel Dornsife School of Public health F, March 20 Samantha Montano, Emergency Management and Disaster Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha and Patrick Roberts, Virginia Tech.
M, March 23 Daniel Lorenz, Disaster Research Unit, Frei Universitat, Berlin and Gonzalo Bacigalupe, CIGIDEN, UMass Boston
Tu, March 24 Andrew Revkin, Earth Institute, Columbia University
W, March 25 Adam Rogers, Wired
Th, March 26 GLOBAL PANDEMIC: ITALY
Giacomo Parrinello, Paris Institute of Political Studies | Paolo Cavaliere, University of Delaware
F, March 27 DISASTER AND DISABILITY
Aimi Hamraie, Vanderbilt Univ., Center for Medicine, Health, and Society
M, March 30 PANDEMICS IN HISTORY
Cindy Ermus, University of Texas, San Antonio | Christienna Fryar, Goldsmiths, University of London
Tu, March 31 COVID-19 AND THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT
Peter Shulman
W, April 1 GLOBAL PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS
Andrew Lakoff, University of Southern California
Th, April 2 CARE, GRIEVING, PARENTS AND CHILDREN
Sara McBride, USGS | Bernadette McBride, Nurse Practitioner | Yvonne Michael, Drexel University
F, April 3 PANDEMIC POLITICSJulian Zelizer, Princeton University
GLOBAL PANDEMIC: SOUTH KOREA
Chihyung Jeon, KAIST, South Korea | Seung-Sik Hwang, Seoul National University
M, April 6 DISASTER RESEARCHERS ROUNDTABLE
Nnenia Campbell, Natural Hazards Center, UC Boulder | Ryan Hagen, Columbia University | Yeonsil Kang, Drexel University | Zachary Loeb, University of Pennsylvania | Valerie Marlowe, Disaster Research Center, Univ. Delaware
