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.
India China Institute recently awarded fellowships to eight New School faculty members and two PhD candidates for the Pandemic Worlds Research Seminar. Faculty Fellows [...]
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, ICI’s China Representative, and Katō Yoshikazu, (Oxford University Press/Hong Kong, 2020), is a record of an [...]
Despite the challenges many African countries continue to face, their response to COVID-19 has been replete with admirable displays of agency, innovation, and ingenuity, writes Lidet Tadesse, an analyst covering peace, security and regional integration in Africa.
The relative success of Japan in containing COVID-19 reveals gaps in the common narratives about ways to control the spread of the virus, writes Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
Sophia Kalantzakos, Global Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Public Policy at NYU Abu Dhabi, on how technological competition has emerged as the new crucial battlefield in the US-China rivalry after COVID-19.
ICI Faculty Associate Aaron Jakes will launch his new book on MONDAY NOVEMBER 9 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST, followed by a roundtable with Professors Benoit [...]
Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History at the University of Leicester, on the continuities and disjunctions between responses to the 1896 bubonic plague and COVID-19 in Mumbai, India.
