“Questioning the Present” with Zha Jianying
Thursday, February 25, 2021, 11:00 AM CST/12:00 PM EST. Writer, journalist, cultural critic, and long time friend of ICI Zha Jianying will present and discuss [...]
The Business of Black Death
COVID-19 is emblematic of how the global public health industry is complicit in the reproduction of “the African tragedy,” writes Takiyah Harper-Shipman, an assistant professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College and public health major Kim Bako.
Nothing to Learn from East Asia?
An unwillingness to learn from East Asian countries has been a hallmark of the Western response to the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Dr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a senior advisor at the Khazanah Research Institute and the first United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development.
Futures Present: The Pandemic and the Crisis of Expertise
The varied response to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crisis of expertise and power dynamics within different approaches to public health, writes Gil Eyal, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and author of The Crisis of Expertise (Polity, 2019).
A Crowd of Mourners
Golrokh Nafisi, a contemporary Iranian artist, brings a new perspective on the impact of COVID-19 on collective mourning, grief, and political identity in Iran.
Vaccine Chimeras
The overwhelming prioritization of vaccines takes attention and resources away from the complex political, social and infrastructural investments that underlie a resilient public health response, writes Manjari Mahajan, Associate Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
ICI Pandemic Worlds Research Seminar Fellows
India China Institute recently awarded fellowships to eight New School faculty members and two PhD candidates for the Pandemic Worlds Research Seminar. Faculty Fellows [...]
Argentina: The Convergence of COVID-19 and Institutional Violence
The coronavirus shutdown in Argentina has revealed systemic institutional violence and discrimination against indigenous and lower-class communities, write Silvia Hirsch and Andrea Mastrangelo, social scientists with the University of San Martín, Argentina.
Freedom is Not Free — A New Decameron by Jianying Zha and Katō Yoshikazu
Freedom is Not Free--A New Decameron, by Jianying Zha, ICI’s China Representative, and Katō Yoshikazu, (Oxford University Press/Hong Kong, 2020), is a record of an [...]