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Syndemic : Crucial Conversations about Humanity’s Organic Crisis — An Interview with Chandrima Chakraborty
By Wilson Institute for Canadian History
Free Event
Overview
Did the 2020-1 pandemic teach us some new lessons about the racialized patterns of oppression in contemporary society?
Join Chandrima Chakraborty, Director of the Centre for Peace Studies, in conversation with Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute in a discussion of Race and the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Thursday, 15 July 2021, 7 p.m.
Zoom Meeting ID: 712 098 7507
Speakers
Chandrima Chakraborty is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Peace Studies, both at McMaster University. She is the author and editor of several books, including Masculinity, Asceticism and Hinduism: Past and Present Imaginings of India, Mapping South Asian Masculinities: Men and Political Crises, and Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning. Her current research project is titled: “Covid-19 and Asian Canadians: Why does race matter?”