As we approach the grim milestone of one million deaths in the United States, taking stock of the personal and collective consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic becomes an urgent task for social scientists worldwide. This panel will examine the physical, material and psychological toll of the past two years of rampant disease, on and off social distancing and shifting economic ground. It will analyze the unequal distribution of the pandemic's burden across the population, discuss the long-term scarring that may ensue, and contemplate the (possibly more uplifting) lessons to be drawn for the future. 

Panelists: Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center; Tina Sacks, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare; Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology. The panel will be moderated by Iris Mauss (moderator), Professor, Berkeley Psychology.

This event will be presented in-person at Social Science Matrix (820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley campus) and will also be streamed online. Please indicate whether you will attend in-person or online.