“…the arts and humanities are essential in understanding how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic…this is one of the things that the humanities, arts and social sciences do well. They look at the causes, and they study those implications across society and the cultural and political fields.”
Colin Elliot, assistant professor in the Indiana University Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of History recently gave a presentation on the Antonine plague and the privilege of quarantine as part of Quarantine(d) Conversations. The weekly discussions, streamed live on Facebook, feature IU arts and humanities faculty discussing research tangential to the pandemic, as well as creative projects in writing and design that address pandemic-related needs. Read more here.
Published: Indiana University website, May 12, 2020