LIEPP is glad to invite you to the promotion of the book : 

Pandemics, Politics and Society. Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis Edited by Gerard Delanty. Berlin: De Grutyer

This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists who are interested in the implications and significance of the current crisis for politics and society. It is a cutting edge and accessible publication with chapters on topics such as the nature and limits of expertise, democratization, emergency government, digitalization, social justice, globalization, capitalist crisis, and the ecological crisis.

Program: 

Gerard Delanty: Editor
Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought at the University of Sussex

Stephen Turner: Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida

Jan Zielonka: Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and Venice, Cá Foscari

Daniel Innerarity: Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country and the European University Institute of Florence

Jonathan White: Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics

Helga Nowotny: Professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich and former President of the European Research Council 

Daniel Chernilo: Professor of Sociology in the School of Government at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile

Eva Horn: Professor of Modern German Literature at the Department of German at the University of Vienna

Frédéric Vandenberghe: Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and the Social Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Sylvia Walby OBE: Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Violence and Society Centre at City, University of London

Albena Azmanova: Associate Professor of Political and Social Thought at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies

Sonja Avlijaš: Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow at the Faculty of Economics, Belgrade University and Associate Researcher at LIEPP

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Chair:

Henri Bergeron: Research director CNRS, affiliated to CSO and director of the LIEPP's Health Policies Research Group

Le LIEPP bénéficie du soutien apporté par l'ANR et l'État au titre du programme d'Investissements d'avenir  dans le cadre du Labex LIEPP (ANR-11-LABX-0091, ANR-11-IDEX-0005-02) et de l’IdEx Université de Paris (ANR-18-IDEX-0001).