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A scholar from the Social Sciences Research Council discusses how the global pandemic has shown us that both hard and soft sciences need each other more than ever before, as the world frantically searches for a sustainable solution to Covid-19.
The Social Science Research Council's President, Alondra Nelson, asks how do the social conditions exposed, exacerbated, and created by the novel coronavirus demand that we substantively rethink our ideas of society and, therefore, some of the prevailing assumptions of social science?
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The Worcester Historical Museum is compiling a digital collection of personal stories, images, videos, social media screen grabs, and emails alongside official records and documents that will broaden the understanding of how the pandemic is affecting all segments of the community.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, anthropological insights are valuable research and teaching resources for health promotion, disease prevention, and the strengthening of health systems. AAA is collecting some of these resources here to support open and fact-based conversations about the pandemic and community responses.
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An interview with Stephen Rachman, Director of the American Studies Program and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Laboratory at Michigan State University
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In this episode, we discuss the pandemic when it was a ‘perhaps’, unpack the blurring of reason and faith among expert interlocutors and draw out lessons on preparedness and its paradoxes for the present global coronavirus crisis.
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