Resources
Here we'll share resources and suggested readings relevant to the course. Also use our hashtag, #NCPandemSem, to connect with other participants and to share posts, retweets, and recommendations.
IDS 250 Compiled Resources Doc (includes links to resources and a section of projects students completed in the course; suggested additions welcome)
Active Hope: Embodied Resilience Online Gatherings (with Katherine Jenkins)
Final Friday Roundtable Discussion Recording (audio only)
Lecture Additional Resources
Week 1: Characterizing the Situation
Nick Evershed and Andy Ball, "See How Coronavirus Spreads Through a Population"
Radiolab, "Dispatch 1: Numbers" (listen and/or read the transcript)
Week 2: Context for Our Responses
Backstory, "Forgotten Flu: America and the 1918 Pandemic"
Brainerd & Siegler, "The Economic Impact of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic"
David Blight, "The United States is Being Taught by Facts and Events"
Alisha Haridasani Gupta, "How the Spanish Flu Almost Updended Women's Suffrage"
Ed Yong, "Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing"
Sarah Jaquette Ray, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
John Allemang, "Barbara Ehrenreich: Why 'Positive Thinking' Is Neither"
The Ezra Klein Show podcast, March 25, 2020; "Is the cure worse than the disease?"
Week 3: Impacts of Our Responses
Health Equity Organization: Become (Chicago)
Health Equity Organization: WI Center for Health Equity
Health Equity Organization: Center for Health Equity, U. of Minnesota
University of Washington Course, "Calling Bullsh*t"
Life Kit, "Fake News Can Be Deadly: Here’s How to Spot It"
Outside Magazine, Responsible Outdoor Exercise and Recreation During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Hurry Slowly, This Is Your Brain on Nature
Week 4: Resilience & Hope After the Pandemic
Jeffrey Ostler, "Disease Has Never Been Just Disease for Native Americans"
Michael Price, "A Call to Embrace Indigenous Teachings"
"The Jingle Dress, A Modern Tradition: An Interview with Brenda Child"
Jingle Dress Dancer for Community (Mooningwanekaaning/Madeline Island)
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe & Twin Cities PBS, The Jingle Dress Tradition
Hoop Dance, "Healing the World from COVID-19"
Media Indigena Podcast, "Ep. 201: When Coronavirus and Colonialism Collide"
Media Indigena Podcast, "Ep. 206: Politics and Public Health in a Pandemic"