From AIDS crisis to COVID-19 pandemic

Friday Special Lecture for High School and University Students 2021
The lecture attempts to offer a perspective to understand the contemporary COVID-19 pandemic by reflecting on the AIDS epidemic in the United States in the 1980s. It focuses on the way public health crises reproduce existing social inequalities as they provide an excuse for the very reproduction, and asks how they threaten the lives of minorities.
Speaker: Akiko Shimizu (The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / Professor)
※Speakers' affiliation and position are as of the time of presentation.
NOTE:
- This lecture was conducted only in Japanese.