22 Jun Recent Articles on the Humanities + Pandemic
June 22, 2020
What is the role of the humanities in extraordinary times and conditions? How do they help us prepare for, respond to, understand, and heal from upheavals caused by events such as the COVID-19 outbreak? This collection of recent articles explores the value and interventions of the humanities in the midst of pandemic, both historically and currently.
“COVID Relief Will Fuel a Comeback Summer for Arts and Culture Jobs and Tourism,” USA Today | June 8, 2021
“COVID-19 Demands Ethical, as Well as Scientific, Decisions,” Bangor Daily News | August 25, 2020
“What Kind of Country Do We Want?,” The New York Review of Books | June 11, 2020
“Opinion: Science Alone Can’t Solve Covid-19. The Humanities Must Help,” Undark | June 4, 2020
“Humanities as Essential Services,” Inside Higher Ed | May 21, 2020
“Choose Your Own Zombie Apocalypse: A Q&A with Eva Cherniavsky on Zombies, Neoliberalism, and Covid-19,” Simpson Center for the Humanities | May 4, 2020
“America’s Covid-19 Hot Spots Shed a Light on Our Moral Failures,” Vox.com | May 1, 2020
“How two professors transformed the teaching of art history,” The Washington Post | May 1, 2020
“Making Sense of COVID-19,” The Humanities Institute | May 1, 2020
“Calling on Humanities in the Midst of a Pandemic,” National Humanities Center | May 2020
“Rutgers Historian Launched Medical Ethics Class just as Pandemic Struck,” Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences | May 2020
“The Wattis Institute’s New Digital Library is an Antidote to Online Exhibitions,” KQED.org | April 30, 2020
“German Humanities Scholars Enlisted to End Coronavirus Lockdown,” Times Higher Education | April 22, 2020
“Lessons for Learning After the Crisis,” Inside Higher Ed | April 15, 2020
“What the humanities do in a crisis,” Medium.com | April 11, 2020
“What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis?” The New Yorker | April 11, 2020
“Loss, Grief, and the Humanities in the Time of Pandemic,” National Humanities Center | April 2020
“How digital humanities can help in a pandemic,” Phys.org | March 23, 2020
“How Medieval Literature Briefed Me for a Pandemic,” UCSB Humanities and Fine Arts | March 2020