Rocky Watch: Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

Welcome to Rocky Watch: A Series of Public Policy Discussions! Each week we broadcast a live event with a public policy expert.

“Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live” - Thursday, April 8, 2021

Speaker:
Nicholas Christakis
Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science
Yale University

Host:
Jason Barabas ’93
Director, Rockefeller Center
Professor, Department of Government
Dartmouth College

Co-sponsored by Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the Political Economy Project, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences

Lecture Info:
Apollo's Arrow offers a broad account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020 and of how the pandemic will unfold, and ultimately end, in the coming years. Using up-to-the-moment information, and drawing on epidemiology, sociology, medicine, public health, history, virology, and other fields, it explores what it means to live in a time of plague — an experience that is paradoxically uncommon to the vast majority of humans who are alive, yet deeply fundamental to our species. Unleashing new divisions in our society as well as new opportunities for cooperation, this 21st-century pandemic has upended our lives in ways that test our frayed collective culture. Apollo's Arrow envisions what happens when the great force of a deadly germ meets the enduring reality of our evolved social nature.

The Rockefeller Center’s mission is to inspire and energize students to become effective leaders in their communities and to cherish and participate in democracy on the state, national, and international stages throughout their lifetime.

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