Opening day: Special Panel on COVID Research and oral history forum on the pandemic at Dartmouth
The opening day of the conference, Thursday, April 21st at Collis Common Ground, is dedicated to the research and experiences of the Dartmouth community about the pandemic. In the afternoon from 12-3, the Dartmouth Institute at the Geisel School of Medicine and the Eric Eichler Foundations in Medicine and Humanities Seminar will host panels showcasing recent work in multiple fields of COVID research that intersects with humanities scholarship. Later that evening (3:30-7p), Dartmouth students will share narratives, poems, and anecdotes about their experiences during the pandemic.
Roundtables on “Undocumented Grief”
On Saturday, April 23rd and Sunday, April 24th, visiting speakers and Dartmouth faculty from Arts and Sciences and Geisel will engage in interdisciplinary conversations on “Undocumented Grief.” This will consist of short 8-10 minute presentations on COVID related research and explore the untold stories and underexamined aspects of trauma and grief during the pandemic.
Part 1, “Mapping Inequities” takes a macro-level view of the complex intersections of the pandemic with other converging crises—racist and sexual violence, global heating, geopolitical crises of democracy, etc. A particular focus will be the disparities of the pandemic on marginal communities. Participants will include philosophers, political scientists, geographers, and faculty from the Dartmouth Institute.
Part 2, “The Clinic of Covid” will take a micro-level view of the day-to-day experiences of clinical workers who have been grappling with COVID-related problems in their practices.
Podcasts and Youtube Streaming
Throughout the conference, we will be conducting a series of interviews and small roundtable discussions for the philosophy podcast, “Why Theory?,” hosted by Prof. Todd McGowan (UVM) and Ryan Engley (Pomona). Additionally, almost all of the events associated with this conference will be available as streaming on Youtube.
Beyond the Conference
Presentations will be published in a book-length anthology as part of the Diaresis series at Northwestern University Press.
