Panelists will be presenting papers and participating in roundtables devoted to approaching COVID from philosophical, psychoanalytic, literary, sociohistorical, medical, political, classical, religious, and economic perspectives that aim to map the coordinates of the situation we face today.
Panelists include:
- Emily Apter (Comparative Literature, NYU)
- Rebecca Comay (Philosophy, U of Toronto)
- Simon Critchley (Philosophy, New School for Social Research) (Zoom)
- James E. Dobson (English, Dartmouth)
- Nancy Fraser (Philosophy, New School for Social Research)
- James A. Godley (English, Dartmouth)
- Stathis Gourgouris (Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
- Johanna Hanink (Classics, Brown)
- Todd McGowan (Film, U of Vermont)
- Klaus Mladek (German, Dartmouth)
- Andrea Nightingale (Classics, Stanford) (Zoom)
- Donald E. Pease (English, Dartmouth)
- Kenneth Reinhard (English, UCLA) (Zoom)
- Kristin O’Rourke (Art History, Dartmouth)
- Christopher Rüping (Director of Theater Zürich and author of the play Dionysus Stadt) (Zoom)
- Eric Santner (German Studies, U of Chicago) (Zoom)
- Samuel Weber (German, Northwestern) (Zoom)
- Jacqueline Wernimont (Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth)
- Yi Wu (Comparative Literature, Dartmouth)
- Alenka Zupančič (Philosophy, U of Ljubljana)
With special guests:
- Sally Ackerman (Psychoanalyst)
- Frédéric Baitinger (French, Hunter College)
- Lucy Selman (Palliative and End-of-Life Care, U of Bristol; founding director of the Good Grief Festival)
- John Troyer (Social and Public Policy, U of Bath; director of the Center for Death and Society)
- Matthew von Unwerth (Psychoanalyst)
And participating Dartmouth faculty and affiliates:
- Amber Barnato (director, The Dartmouth Institute)
- Kimberly Juanita Brown (English and AAAS, Dartmouth)
- Deanna L. Chyn (The Dartmouth Institute)
- Marie-Anne Durand (The Dartmouth Institute)
- Glynn Elwyn (The Dartmouth Institute)
- Aden Evens (English, Dartmouth)
- Vievee Francis (English, Dartmouth)
- Patricia Lopez (Geography, Dartmouth)
- Azeen Khan (English, Dartmouth)
- Kathryn Kirkland (Palliative Care, Dartmouth)
- Members of the Dartmouth Institute and Eric Eichler ’57 Fellowship for Health Care Leaders
- and Dartmouth undergraduates!