“The Future of NYC, Post-Covid, Part I: Culture and the Everyday” (Zoom Webinar)
Department of History, Philosophy and Political Science, City University of New York Kingsborough
May 26 3pm

The panel is sponsored by the Department of History, Philosophy and Political Science at Kingsborough/CUNY as a pilot for our new digital lecture and events program. At CUNY, we are all linked by the city itself and our common mission of teaching, learning and researching in a diverse urban environment. But the recent COVID pandemic has done much to throw the city’s present and future into question, exacerbating existing forms of socio-economic inequality and greater systemic questions. Featuring experts from the academic and professional worlds, our panel explores many of these issues, including perspectives on how to make the city a more socially-inclusive and just place, and is offered as a two-part series: "The Future of NYC Post COVID, Part I—Culture and the Everyday" (Spring 2021) and "The Future of NYC Post COVID, Part II— The City's Economy and Labor Market, Housing, Public Health, and Urban Planning"(Fall 2021). The event itself (hosted as zoom webinar) will be a panel of four speakers with very brief talks, featuring a Q & A discussion period moderated by Professors Megan Brandow-Faller and Michael Spear.


Michael Barnhart, Professor of Philosophy Kingsborough Community College/ CUNY
“Covid 19’s Bioethical Challenges”


Sonya Abrego, Visiting Assistant Professor, Fordham University, FIT, and Parsons
“Finding Fashion in the Post-Covid Future”


Kristin Perkins, Adult Programs Coordinator at the Millbrook Library
“Who Stays and Who Goes? Diversity and Job Loss for Young Professionals”

Nicholas Vincent, Director of Strategic Planning, New York Botanical Garden
"Effects of the Pandemic on Museums and Cultural Institutions in NYC"