Archive: Media 2021

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Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Featured in the The Library of Congress Magazine’s “Stories From A Pandemic”

The September-October 2021 issue of The Library of Congress Magazine presents “Stories From A Pandemic”, a first-of-its-kind collection of audio diaries newly acquired by the…

September 10, 2021

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COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: “Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden’s New Plan”, Scientific American Tackled Emily Mendenhall’s Research

In this episode of Scientific American’s podcast series "COVID, Quickly", senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman explore Emily Mendenhall's research on mask…

September 10, 2021

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ASHA Voices Podcast: Confronting Health Care Disparities, featuring Dr. Davetrina Seles Gadson, Dr. Christopher King, and Dr. Deliya Wesley

In the ASHA Voices podcast, Georgetown Dr. Davetrina Seles Gadson, Dr. Christopher King and Dr. Deliya Wesley explain how the COVID-19 pandemic has been drawing public attention…

September 2, 2021

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“How COVID, Inequality and Politics Make a Vicious Syndemic”, Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee in Scientific American

Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee analyze the conditions that made COVID a syndemic in the.…

August 26, 2021

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Always Take Notes Podcast, Episode 115: Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna speaks with the Always Take Notes hosts, Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, about her early work at the BBC, the similarities between creative non-fiction and fiction…

August 24, 2021

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Third Culture Africans Podcast: Aminatta Forna, Changing the Narrative on Identity, Grief, and Appropriation

Aminatta Forna talks with Zeze Oriaikhi-Sao about about the impact words can have on people, why she thinks appropriation can cause great damage to the literary and arts world,…

August 23, 2021

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COVIDCalls Podcast, Episode #320: Medical Humanities, Literature, COVID-19 w/Guest Host Jacob-Steere Williams featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Lorenzo Servitje

A daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Lorenzo Servitje - hosted by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles, a historian of disasters at KAIST in…

August 12, 2021

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Infectious Historians Podcast, Episode #72: Climate Change and the Globalization of Disease in the Early Middle Ages with Tim Newfield

Timothy Newfield talks to Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai about the connected histories of climate change and diseases that become pandemics, focusing on the early medieval and…

July 29, 2021

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Words: Sideshow, Freak Show, Circus

In this short silent film, Toni-Lee Sangastiano presents media headlines that employ the words “freak show, sideshow, and circus” as negative metaphors in politics and…

July 27, 2021

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“What is Supplication?” Greek Myth Comix by Jenks Explains Victoria Pedrick’s Research Using Stick-Man Comics

L E Jenkinson-Brown, Classical Civilisation and Literature teacher, writer, and stick-figure artist, drew this comic piece to illustrate Victoria Pedrick's research paper: …

July 27, 2021