The Language of Covid Symposium will be held in a hybrid format to accommodate both in-person and virtual audiences. Please indicate your attendance plans in the registration questionnaire. The schedule of events appears below. Please see FULL DETAILS of events, speakers, and panels on the Language of Covid Symposium website.

All listed times refer to Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4).

Day 1 – April 13, 2022

5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Humanities Commons, Opening Speaker: Professor Kirsten Ostherr, PhD, MPH, Rice University in Houston, TX. “The Importance of the Medical/Health Humanities”

6:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Humanities Commons, A Sense of Place film screening with Q&A, Megan Maybee, WC '22

Reception following

7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Alice Jepson Theater, Modlin Center, Standing Together, Six Feet Apart play preview (in-person only)
Co-created and Directed by Chuck Mike, UR Department of Theatre & Dance

Day 2 - Thursday, April 14, 2022, All events in Brown Alley Room (Weinstein Hall)

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Welcome Address: Interim A&S Dean Dan Palazzolo

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Panel 1: Biopolitics of Covid: the Language of the “State of Exception”

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Panel 2: Covid’s Effect on Education

12:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Film screening and response: The Tsugua Diaries by Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro, 2021

2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Panel 3: The Particularity of National Responses to Covid

3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Panel 4: Social Media and Covid

5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Plenary Response: Dr. Emily Vraga, University of Minnesota

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