11 October 2020 The Pandemicene Podcast series launches weekly student produced episodes on Sunday evenings, 6:30 – 7 pm, on KZSC Santa Cruz.
30 July 2020 Rochus Urban Hinkel an Associate Professor in Architecture and Design at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), University of Melbourne published, “From Analogue to Virtual: Urban Interiors in the Pandemicene in Interiority a journal on design-related disciplines: architecture, interior design, spatial design by the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia. The idea of interiority emphasizes the internal aspects that make and condition the interior, which might be understood and manifested through the users’ inhabitation, through the materiality of objects and built environment as well as through specific methods and approaches of design practice. The PandemiTeam was excited to see these connections being made through this publication and are interested to know how people are using the pandemicene as a term to think with.
27 July 2020 the Daily Beast interview, “Hyped COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Have a Glaring Race Problem“, featuring SJRC interim director and Assistant Professor of Sociology James Doucet-Battle, on the glaring race problems COVID-19 vaccine trials have.
05 June 2020 SJRC founding director Jenny Reardon’s undergraduate seminar SOCY 194: Living and Learning in a Pandemic: The Sociology of COVID-19, is mentioned in a UC Santa Cruz news article highlighting scholarship that contextualizes the coronavirus pandemic by Jennifer McNulty.
08 May 2020 students in SJRC founding director Jenny Reardon’s undergraduate seminar, SOCY 194: Living and Learning in a Pandemic: The Sociology of COVID-19, co-created a zine based on everyone’s unique quarantine experiences and interests in understanding local responses to the pandemic! Full design credit and our special thanks go to Kathia Damian (Literature)!
04 May 2020 SJRC advisor and Professor of Politics Matt Sparke (co-organizer of Global and Community Health program), who, in a special issue of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers article, “Contextualizing Coronavirus Geographically,”outlines sub‐themes explored as geographies of: (1) infection, (2) vulnerability, (3) resilience, (4) blame, (5) immunization, (6) interdependence, and (7) care.
02 April 2020 SJRC founding director Jenny Reardon weighs in on coronavirus pandemic in a UC Santa Cruz news article, “Discrimination, governance, and trust in the age of COVID-19” by Jennifer McNulty.