“A Social Diagnosis and Prognosis for COVID-19” with James A. Trostle
Tuesday, June 16 | 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (MDT)
In an SAR online salon, James A. Trostle, the Scott M. Johnson ’97 Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Trinity College (Hartford, CT), will consider the social dimensions of COVID-19 and their relationship to the pandemic’s epidemiological characteristics. Among the issues he will consider are the pandemic’s likely long-term social effects and changing attitudes toward the risk of infection.
Can we count what counts? What do masks mean? How does this novel coronavirus create and reveal our mortality?
James A. Trostle
James Trostle’s areas of expertise include sociocultural perspectives on epidemics, local understandings of risk, and strategies for reconciling policy and practice. He served as a research associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development for seven years prior to his appointment at Trinity College. He was a Weatherhead Resident Scholar at SAR in 2009-2010 and served two terms on SAR’s board of directors. Among his many publications is the book Epidemiology and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
This online event is free and open to the public.
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