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Human Rights Day (Virtual) Lecture

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Beyond the “War” on Covid: Portal to a More Just Society

Catherine Powell

December 6, 2023, 12:45 PM – 01:45 PM

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/95091807028

Zoom ID: 950 9180 7028

The Human Rights Day Lecture in honor of Shams Ghoneim

Building off my earlier work on the Color of Covid, this talk analyzes the wartime framing of “fighting” a war on COVID-19. The talk will question what is meant by “security”—by “racing” national security and interrogating what the concept of “security” foregrounds and erases. What kinds of expertise it empowers and whose knowledge matters in identifying threats?

Using feminist, racial justice, and other critical frameworks, I propose an alternative paradigm to meet the current moment with an ethics, politics, and law of care, rather than a framework of war, militarization and securitization, as this latter approach often promote “law and order” over justice.

Sponsored by UICHR, International & Comparative Law Programs, and Blacks of the American Society of International Law

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