The Pandemic and the Social Sciences: Reimagining Engagement and Research 

This event took place on Monday, Feb 22, 2021 --
Description:
In her essay “Society After Pandemic,” Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council, and newly appointed OSTP Deputy Director for Science and Society, wrote that “[i]n light of [pandemic-related] changes in society we must…change social research from being mimetic of society to being consciously dialogic with the world it seeks to apprehend and improve,” (Nelson 2020). Has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the ways in which social scientists engage with the world? Should it? This webinar brings together a group of scholars to discuss both how the social sciences have contributed to responses to the pandemic and how ideas and practices of research and engagement are potentially being challenged and reimagined.
Panelists:
Adia Benton
Associate Professor of Anthropology and African Studies
Northwestern University
Marcos Cueto
Professor of History
Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
Alexa Dietrich
Program Director, Religion & the Public Sphere, Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean, and Scholarly Borderlands, Social Science Research Council; Research Associate Professor, Wagner College
Lindsay Wiley
Professor of Law; Director of the Health Law and Policy Program
American University Washington College of Law
Moderated by
Eugene Raikhel
Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development
University of Chicago