CONFERENCES & PANELS

The Pandemic

Self, Other, and the World Beyond Us

Featuring Carol Becker, Roger Cohen, Nathalia Herbst, Hisham Matar, Shannon Marquez, and Safwan Masri.

Columbia Global Centers. July 15, 2020.


From social isolation due to quarantine, to changes in work environments, to the closing of public spaces, the COVID-19 outbreak has profoundly impacted individual and societal behaviors. We have had to reshape the many ways we interact with one another and to our environs, striving, as Roger Cohen wrote in the New York Times, “for national and personal reinvention and rebalancing.”