Issues for the week of March 18, 2020 - Public Seminar

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Week of March 18

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Politics

Confessions in a Time of Plague

Jeffrey C. Isaac

Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington
The Pandemic

The Great Immobility

T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Dean and University Professor, New School for Social Research

COVID-19: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Micah L. Sifry

Author and co-founder of Civic Hall

Life and Protest in Hong Kong Amid COVID-19

Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Mark Frazier

Plague in the Age of Twitter

Eileen Sperry

From Mad Cows to Coronavirus

Sidney Tarrow

Emeritus Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Adjunct Professor, Cornell Law School

Quarantines

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young
Violence

Violence and Redemption in Northern Ireland’s Civil War

Patrick Radden Keefe and Plamena Malinova
Cities

The Corner Store in the Digital World

Quizayra Gonzalez

Dominican American researcher, writer, and curator based in Brooklyn