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Pandemic Perspectives

Pandemic Perspectives is a thoughtful window into a spectrum of key societal issues illuminated by the COVID-19 pandemic through the prism of 32 international experts in biology, education, history, law, philosophy, politics, psychology, and more. All participants were filmed remotely using local film crews during the second half of 2021.
Examples of societal issues that are addressed:

  • The need to rethink current educational practices
  • The future of scientific research
  • The challenges of making evidence-based public policy in an age of rapid information and misinformation
  • The widespread confusion about how science actually works
  • The importance of balancing basic and applied research
  • The implications for coherently addressing climate changeThe tension between individual liberties and communitarian ideals
  • The need to critically assess the level of care in our society
  • The importance of looking at history during a time of crisis
  • The perils of nationalism and the necessity of thinking globally
  • To what extent the pandemic has revealed our true moral nature


Below is a list of the 32 experts who have participated in Pandemic Perspectives:

  • Elizabeth Anderson, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, University of Michigan
  • Ann-Sophie Barwich, Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology, University of Queensland
  • Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies, UCLA
  • Christopher Celenza, James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
  • Patricia Churchland, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, UC San Diego
  • Lorraine Daston, Director Emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
  • John Dunn, Emeritus Professor of Political Thought, University of Cambridge
  • John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy and Director of Egenis, University of Exeter
  • Charles Foster, Professor of Law and Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
  • Richard Frank, Director of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy; Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution; Professor of Health Economics at Harvard Medical School
  • Michael Frazer, Associate Professor in Political and Social Theory, University of East Anglia
  • Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University
  • Joanna Haigh, Professor of Physics, Imperial College London
  • Brian Hie, Stanford Science Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Andy Hoffman, Holcim (US), Inc. Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan
  • Rush Holt, Former US Congressman, Current Director's Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study
  • Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus, UC Berkeley
  • Paul Kahn, Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr . Center for International Human Rights, Yale University
  • Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University
  • Fyodor Kondrashov, Professor of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
  • Stephen Kosslyn, President, Active Learning Sciences; Founder and CAO Foundry College; Founding Dean Minerva Schools; Former Dean of Social Sciences Harvard University
  • Darrin McMahon, Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College
  • Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale University
  • Miguel Nicolelis, Professor in Neuroscience, Duke University
  • Caroline Paunov, Senior Economist and Head of Secretariat for the Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy, OECD
  • Alexandre Quintanilha, Member of Portuguese Parliament; Former Director of the Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, University of Porto
  • Teofilo Ruiz, Distinguished Research Professor of History, UCLA
  • Stephen Scherer, Chief of Research at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
  • John Tregoning, Reader in Respiratory Infections, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College
  • Gavin Yamey, Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University
  • Yong Zhao, Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education, University of Kansas & Professor in Educational Leadership, Melbourne Graduate School of Education
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Distributor: Ideas Roadshow

Length: 91 minutes

Date: 2022

Genre: Expository

Language: English / English subtitles

Grade: College, Adults

Color/BW:  Color

Closed Captioning: Available

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