Leading the Way (Asynchronous Session)
What Are the Qualifications of Our Leaders Today in the 2020 Global Covid-19 Virus Pandemic? View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Richard Runyon, Daryl Watkins
In western education, Plato is often cited as a foundational thinker for education of leaders. At 2, 395 years later, many of the nations of the world are struggling to address the Covid-19 global pandemic. The pandemic has provided academics with a wonderful opportunity to evaluate government leadership at many levels. All the different forms of governance as well as theoretical economic systems are being tested in real-time. Success can be measured on a nation’s ability to reduce both deaths and spread of the COVID-19 virus among their citizens. This paper discusses these concepts focused on successful government leadership.
Bio-politics and the State of Exception : Era of the Pandemic View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Angie Hesham
The reality of biopolitics has created bipartisan division, racism, and exasperated social divisions which stands in sharp contrast with Michel Foucault words to sustain, to ensure, to multiply lives to put life in order. Biopolitics in contemporary international relations reiterates Foucault notion of capitalism and politics. Epistemological and methodological analysis of the themes of biopolitics- the theory of governmental conspiracy shine a light on the impact of the pandemic in the fields of politics, economy and society. COVID has stressed the need for international cooperation, China and the United States both showing different approaches of leadership and making use of international institutions like the WHO. China successful approach towards the WHO has solidified its position as an indispensable nation to the world. A reference to Michel Foucault panopticism in Discipline and Punishment is salient in the present time. His apprehension that our response to the pandemic threatens constitutional freedoms that were preserved even under fascism is an assessment, mirroring accusations that the virus is employed to accustom people into submission. World superpowers views on globalisation and biopolitics in the time of the virus "biopolitical order constructed through the contention of a surveillance regime driven by globalisation." This expansion of state biopower or the explosion of techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations will be an emergency measure becoming an enduring feature of new biopolitics for security. The tension between security and liberty is just one of the political dilemmas that surround the securitisation of COVID.
Dissemination of Health News through Media during the Global Pandemic: An Indian Perspective View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Sushila Shekhawat
Communication of health news has formed a significant portion of news dissemination by the mass media. The vast reach of the media makes it an indispensable tool to transmit information especially during global crisis like a pandemic. Presently during the period of COVID-19, all types of media – print, broadcasting, and social have been quite rigorous in reporting the facts and communicating the health and travel advice on behalf of the governing bodies of respective nations. This study aims to shed light on the pivotal role various forms of media have been playing in the transmission of health news to the public during COVID-19 using statistical evidence gained via conducting surveys and secondary sources. The findings presented in this paper validate the role of media in creating awareness during a global pandemic by statistically analysing the role played by each form of media i.e. print, broadcasting and social during this health crisis. The study compares all the three mediums and finally comes up with a general conclusion as to which form of media has been the most successful during the pandemic. The research is based on the data collected from the survey and also the data from previously existing research studies in similar domains. Qualitative and quantitative techniques of data analysis have been employed to ensure maximum value extraction from the collected data so as to arrive at meaningful results.
Global Convention on Human Clonning
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Rodolfo Milhomem De Sousa
Science brings constant challenges to the law, be it national or international, as it exposes the fractures that the legal building often has, transcending the current omissions of the international legal community. The speed of changes in the technological society translates into the acceleration of time and the destruction of the current ethical limits of human rights, transforming customs, attitudes, ways of life, and the very ontological essence of what is a human being. In this paper, I argue the theme that permeates all the interfaces between different fields of knowledge and possesses almost infinite potentialities for the progress of human society or its failure is human cloning.
Between the Homo sacer, the Homo politicus, and the Homo rassisticus: Dancing the “Post ” Before, During, and After the Pandemic View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Gerburg Garmann
Many recent pre-pandemic dance choreographies in the post-anthropocene tradition patently favor the presentation of haptic intimacies through the interplays or autoplays of increasingly disembodied dancers (McGregor, Navas et al.). Through “lighting out” the insides of the body Agamben’s homo sacer's status (i.e., man’s status of being fair game) is doubled and thus becomes dangerously increased. This presentation aims to investigate the ruptures of such an aesthetic approach during the pandemics (Covid-19 intertwined with systemic racism) in which both the homo politicus and the homo rassisticus seem to retake center stage and thus revive the Foucauldian tenet that the biological existence is intrinsically reflected in the political existence. Re-embodying the dancer through turning off the “inside lighting” while redressing the now (pandemically evoked) necessary spatially distanced (and masked) body as an aesthetico-political agent has the preoccupation with haptic intimacies cede its place to that of longings for social interconnectedness, for new forms of social intimacies, even; a shift which will weigh heavily on all post-pandemic forms of biopolitical action in the near future: London’s 1665 Great Plague’s “Ring around the Rosy… we all fall down” has turned into Covid-19’s ‘Love Song to Bill’ (José Navas), NTH’s ‘New Bach’ in Harlem choreography, and Bill T. Jones’ ‘Afterwardness’ (premiering in May 2021) -- into current choreographies which redeploy the importance of personal and social intimacies while simultaneously putting racial inequities and injustice front and center.
