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