Event Description

Join us to reflect on a turbulent, world-changing year with an esteemed panel of experts. COVID-19, political unrest, and a societal reckoning all contributed to “the year everything changed,” according to author Eric Klinenberg. “Societies have a way of revealing themselves during crises,” he writes in his book 2020. “Who we are. What we value. How we trust each other and our government.”

2020 Author Eric Klinenberg will be joined by discussants Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Professor I. Glenn Cohen, and Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen.

Please Note

This event is open to HUID holders only. Please RSVP to receive the location, which will be sent via email prior to the event. For those who cannot attend in person, the event will be recorded and accessible on the Petrie-Flom YouTube channel following the event.

Panelists

• Author: Eric Klinenberg, Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science, Director, Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University
• Moderator: Jeannie Suk Gersen John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Contributing Writer, The New Yorker
• Discussant: I. Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics and James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, and Deputy Dean, Harvard Law School
• Discussant: Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Former Petrie-Flom Senior Academic Fellow; Senior Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program Hauser Leader, Center for Public Leadership Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School

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This event is organized by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University and the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School.