The Post(?)-Pandemic University: Month 1

Thursday, September 23, 2021, 4:30-6:00 pm

What does our “new normal” look like at Stony Brook University?

In the last 18 months we have experienced unprecedented upheaval, wresting us away from one another, physically, and arguably psychologically and emotionally. Now we are coming back together (sort of, masked, tentatively). As we happily start to greet each other in public spaces, we also have decisions to make. What have we learned during this pandemic? What do we want to retain of the way things were, and what should be modified? In these 18 months, our teaching and work have been thrust on-line, we have witnessed protests across the country righteously calling attention to injustice, and we have experienced in common an assault by an invisible, deadly threat, prompting urgent reflection on health, illness, race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersectionality of all of these things. We have an opportunity to bring into being a “new normal.” What should we imagine?

Sponsored by the Pandemic Narratives Initiative and HISB.

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