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COVIDCalls
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A daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts - hosted by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles, a historian of disasters at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Episodes
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EP #501 - 4.4.2022 - The Quarantine Series with Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Today I speak with Gonzalo Bacigalupe about his project the Quarantine Series. Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH, is professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is principal investigator of the Mediated Technologies for DRD at the National Research Center for...
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EP #500 - 3.19.2022 - RESTORING MEMORY: What is COVIDCalls?
Today in this 500th episode I discuss COVIDCalls: how it started, what I’ve attempted to do with the project, and some of the ways I hope people will use it in the future. Thanks for tuning in!
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EP #499 - 3.19.2022 - RESTORING MEMORY: A Time for Memorial III
My name is Scott Gabriel Knowles, I am a historian of disasters and since March 16, 2020 the host of COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. Today I will be reading some memorials from victims of COVID.
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EP #498 - 3.17.2022 - RESTORING MEMORY: A Taiko Drum Performance by Marco Lienhard
Today I have Marco Lienhard on for a musical performance and discussion. Marco Lienhard studied the shakuhachi under Master Katsuya Yokoyama, quickly mastering the instrument and becoming a virtuoso solo artist. Marco Lienhard mastered Taiko drumming as a member of Ondekoza for 18 years. While...
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EP #497 - 3.17.2022 - RESTORING MEMORY: The Pandemic in Korea w/Hyunah Keum, Seulgi Lee, Hyeonbin Park, & Joelle Champalet
Today I speak with Hyunah Keum, Seulgi Lee, Hyeonbin Park, & Joelle Champalet about the pandemic in Korea Joëlle Champalet is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. She is interested in the intertwined...
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EP #496 - 3.17.2022 - Restoring Memory: Father and Son in the Pandemic
Today I speak with Steve Knowles, my father, about the pandemic. Steve Knowles was born in Odessa, Texas, and is a fourth generation Texan with a deep appreciation for the unique heritage of growing up and living in West Texas. His experiences of a boyhood developed in a postwar America framed…
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EP #495 - 3.17.2022 - Restoring Memory: Dance in the Pandemic w/David Brick
Today I talk about Dance in the Pandemic w/David Brick David Brick David is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Headlong Dance Theater, a platform for performance research and grassroots artist support, founded in Philadelphia in 1993. He also directs the Headlong Performance Institute, a…
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EP #494 - 3.17.2022 - Restoring Memory: COVID & the Research Community
Today I talk about COVID and the Research Community w/Kim Fortun, Lori Peek, & Jason Ludwig Kim Fortun is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching focus how people in different geographic and organizational contexts…
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EP #493 - 3.17.2022 - A Time for Memorial II
My name is Scott Gabriel Knowles, I am a historian of disasters and since March 16, 2020 the host of COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. Today I will be reading some memorials from victims of COVID.
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EP #492 - 3.17.2022 - Restoring Memory: Cancer Metaphors and Research Networks in the Time of COVID
My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a Historian of Epidemic Disease and Public Health at the College of Charleston. I’m so glad to be hosting a series of episodes for this special program. You can catch most of them with the regular host and founder of COVID-Calls, Scott Knowles. Today I want…
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EP #488 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: A Time for Memorial
My name is Scott Gabriel Knowles, I am a historian of disasters and since March 16, 2020 the host of COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. Today I will be reading some memorials from victims of COVID.
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EP #487 - Restoring Memory: The COVIDCalls Team
Today I talk with the core COVIDCalls team! Eleanor Mayes is completing a Master of Design at the University of California, Berkeley. She is interested in accessibility, sustainability, and fostering equity within design and engineering. She manages the transcription of COVIDCalls, and assists…
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EP #486 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Vaccination in the COVID Era
My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a Historian of Epidemic Disease and Public Health at the College of Charleston. I’ll be guest hosting a series of episodes for this special program, but you can catch most of them with the regular host and founder of COVID-Calls, Scott Knowles. My guests...
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EP #485 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Pandemic and War Part 2
My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a Historian of Epidemic Disease and Public Health at the College of Charleston. I’ll be guest hosting a series of episodes for this special program, but you can catch most of them with the regular host and founder of COVID-Calls, Scott Knowles. This is Part…
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EP #484 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Pandemic and War Part 1
This is Part 1 of a two-part episode exploring the entanglement of the COVID-19 pandemic and the War in Ukraine. On February 24th, 2022, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted that Putin had “launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.” Russian attacks began that Thursday after Russian...
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EP #482 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: The Rush to Normal w/Gregg Gonsalves
My name is Scott Gabriel Knowles, I am a historian of disasters and since March 16, 2020 the host of COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. Gregg Gonsalves is an expert in policy modeling on infectious disease and substance use, as well as…
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EP #481 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Life and Death in Delta+Omicron w/Cassie Alexander
My name is Scott Gabriel Knowles, I am a historian of disasters and since March 16, 2020 the host of COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. Cassie Alexander is a registered nurse of fourteen years and author. As Cassandra, she's written the...
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EP #480 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: COVID in India w/Aqsa Shaikh and Sonali Vaid
My name is Scott Gabriel Knowles, I am a historian of disasters and since March 16, 2020 the host of COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. Aqsa Shaikh (She /Her) is Associate Professor of Community Medicine at Jamia Hamdard University…
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EP #479 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Disaster Memory w/Christina Simko
My name is Scott Gabriel Knowles, I am a historian of disasters and since March 16, 2020 the host of COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My guest is Christina Simko. Christina Simko is associate professor of sociology at Williams College....
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EP #478 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: Visualizing COVID
My name is Scott Gabriel Knowles, I am a historian of disasters and since March 16, 2020 the host of COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. Shannon Mattern is Professor at The New School for Social Research. Her writing and teaching focus on...
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EP #477 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: Marked by COVID & Faces of COVID
Alex Goldstein created Faces of COVID. He is currently CEO of the strategic communications firm 90 West, which he founded in 2016 to better serve companies, organizations, and leaders that are making a positive impact on the world -- with a focus on equity, economic mobility, and the climate...
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EP #476 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: A Pandemic of Racism
I’d like to talk about racial justice, disaster recovery, and the pandemic with some of the experts I’ve been honored to get to know these past 2 years. Let me introduce them: Joy Banner, Ph.D. is the Director of Media and Marketing at Whitney Plantation. She is a native, and resident of Wallace,...
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EP #475 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: The Terrible Springtime
Zachary Loeb is a PhD candidate whose work looks at the intersection of the history of technology and disaster studies, his dissertation project focuses on Y2K. Since March 16, 2020, he has posted 4 short poems a day (5 days a week) to the Twitter account @plaguepoems (these poems are then…
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EP #474 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: A Performance by John Gorka
In 2021 I saw that John Gorka, was performing a virtual concert—so I bought tickets, set up a video projector, and watched him in my living room with my wife and my two boys. It was a moment of light in a dark time. So, when it came time to put together Restoring Memory: A COVIDCalls exploration…
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EP #473 - 3.15.2022 - Restoring Memory: Premonitions and Origins
For The Conversation TODAY I have three experts—return guests to COVIDCalls—to talk about Premonitions and Origins of COVID-19. Monica H. Green is a historian of medicine, currently serving as SOO-PEES Suppes Visiting Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University. She specializes in...
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EP #470 - 3.14.2022 - Pandemic Films
Today I welcome Comparative Literature and Film Studies scholar Alain Cohen to talk about the film Contagion. Alain J.-J. Cohen is Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of California, San Diego where he has spent his career. He is also a practicing psychoanalyst,...
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EP #469 - 3.14.2022 - The History of Technology and COVID w/Asif Siddiqi
Today I welcome historian of science and technology Asif Siddiqi. Asif Siddiqi is a professor of history at Fordham University in New York. He writes and teaches on both the history of technology and modern Russian history, as well as the intersection of the two. He has written many books and...
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EP #468 - 3.13.2022 - Mothers and Grandmothers in the Pandemic
Today I welcome my stepmother Harriet Knowles and my mother in law Susan Meurling to talk about their lives during the pandemic. Harriet Knowles is a native Texan, having been born and raised out in West Texas in the town of Midland. She had an unique experience in her high school education in…
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EP #467 - 3.13.2022 - Brothers and Sisters in the Pandemic Part II
Today I welcome my brothers and sisters back to COVIDCalls. My sisters and brothers: Lindy Warner, Stephanie Eddleton, Jennifer Lerma, Jeff Knowles, and David Vieira.
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EP #466 - 3.12.2022 - COVID and Humanitarian Aid w/Julia Irwin
Today I welcome historian of the Red Cross and humanitarian disaster relief Julia Irwin. Julia Irwin is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the department of history at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on the place of humanitarianism and foreign assistance in 20th...
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EP #465 - 3.11.2022 - The Architecture of COVID
Today I welcome Daniel Barber, Jeannette KWO Kuo, and Paul Lewis to discuss architecture and design in the COVID era. Daniel A. Barber is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, where he is also Chair of the interdisciplinary PhD Program in...
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EP #464 - 3.10.2022 - Disasters in Tonga
Today I welcome Pacific Island journalist and scholar Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson to talk about the winter 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption and tsunami and COVID. Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson is a leading climate change journalist and scholar with a focus on small islands, gender, environmental...
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EP #463 - 3.10.2022 - COVID, Disinformation, and Disaster w/Kate Starbird
Today is a discussion of DISINFORMATION IN THE PANDEMIC with returning COVIDCalls guest Kate Starbird. Kate Starbird is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington (UW). Kate’s research is situated within human-computer...
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EP #462 - 3.10.2022 - Ukraine and COVID w/Maxym Prytula
Today I welcome Maxym Prytula to discuss COVID in Ukraine. Maxym Prytula is a peridontist and oral surgeon in Ukraine where he is also working towards a PhD in public health administration. He has been treating COVID patients and soldiers, and we talk to him today.
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EP #461 - 3.10.2022 - Disasters and COVID in Latin America w/Mark Healey
Today I welcome historian of Latin America and disaster, Mark Healey. Mark Healey is an urban, environmental, and political historian of Latin America, and also a fellow disaster scholar. The author of “The Ruins of the New Argentina” (Duke, 2011), he is currently writing a book about the...
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EP #460 - 3.9.2022 - The Pandemic Imaginary w/Christos Lynteris
Today I welcome medical anthropologist Christos Lynteris back to COVIDCalls. Christos Lynteris is a medical anthropologist, and senior lecture at the Univ. of St. Andrews in the UK. His research focuses on the anthropological and historical examination of epidemics, zoonosis, epidemiological...
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EP #459 - 3.9.2022 - War, Refugees, and the Pandemic w/Deborah Amos
Today I welcome Deborah Amos, NPR middle east correspondent and journalism professor at Princeton University. Deborah Amos is an award-winning international correspondent for NPR News, which regularly features her groundbreaking reporting on the Middle East and refugees in the United States on...
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EP #458 - 3.9.2022 - Ukraine and Disaster: Past & Present
Today I welcome historian John Vsetecka to discuss Ukrainian history and the war going on in Ukraine today. John Vsetecka is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Michigan State University where he is writing a dissertation on the 1932-1933 famine (Holodomor) and the 1946-1947 famine in...
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EP #457 - 3.8.2022 - Science and the Pandemic: Followup w/Laura Helmuth
Today I welcome Laura Helmuth editor in chief of Scientific American. Laura Helmuth is the Editor in Chief of Scientific American. She has previously been an editor for The Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian, and Science’s news section. She serves on the boards of High…
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EP #456 - 3.8.2022 - COVID and Mental Health w/Jessi Gold
Today, I welcome Jessi Gold, Director of the Wellness Engagement and Outreach Department and the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Jessi Gold, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Wellness, Engagement, and Outreach in the…
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EP #455 - 3.8.2022 - Public Health in a Historical Perspective w/Michael Yudell
Today I welcome public health ethicist and historian Michael Yudell. Michael Yudell is vice dean and professor in the ASU college if health solutions. He is a public health ethicist and award-winning historian whose work focuses on the history and ethics of genomics, the history of the race...
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EP #454 - 3.8.2022 - The Pandemic’s True Death Toll
Today I welcome journalist David Adam to discuss his Nature article “The pandemic’s true death toll: millions more than official counts” David Adam is a best-selling author and an award-winning journalist, who covers science, environment, technology, medicine and the impact they have on people,...
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EP #453 - 3.7.2022 - Promise House: Heather’s Story w/Krista Rowe
Today I welcome actor and film maker Krista Rowe to talk about her new film Promise House Heather’s Story. Originally from Arlington, Texas, Krista Rowe is an independent filmmaker, producer, director, and actress. She produced three seasons of the reality road trip cooking show American Food...
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EP #452 - 3.7.2022 - American Pandemic Culture w/James McWilliams
Today I welcome historian James McWilliams to talk about American culture in the pandemic. James McWilliams, is currently writing a biography of the southern poet Frank Stanford. He's written about a wide range of interests, including the American South, food and agriculture, animal ethics…
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A daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts - hosted by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles, a historian of disasters at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
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