This research seminar will feature a talk and panel from 1pm-2:30pm and will be followed by a narrative networking event from 3pm-4pm

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In his talk, Dr Mark Davis (Associate Professor at Monash University in Australia) will introduce the theme of social justice applied to the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals and communities continue to experience the effects of the virus through illness and its social effects on family life, employment and education, among many others.

Despite the apparent unifying impact of this global pandemic, COVID-19’s effects are not experienced in the same way by all, everywhere. Individuals and communities vary in the extent to which they are able to respond to pandemic threats and how their health and wellbeing is sustained or not during illness and afterwards.

Much has been said about these pandemic effects in the senses of health outcomes and health care, but less attention has been paid to them as effects of power and therefore as matters of social justice. Moreover, pandemic narratives created by individuals and communities reveal tensions and schisms with the stories told about them.

In response to these observations, Mark will consider implied questions of agency and constraint and explore ways in which it might be possible to enlarge material and symbolic capacity to respond to pandemic threats. He reflects on how these pandemic (in)justices could be addressed for COVID-19 and, likely, future pandemic threats.

Following the main presentation, panel members: Professor Havi Carel, School of Philosophy, Bristol; Dr Francis Giampappa, School of Education, Bristol; and Dr Sanny Mulubale, Dept of Language and Social Sciences, University of Zambia, will reflect on the ways that themes from Dr Davis’ talk intersect with their own work.

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