THE WORLD AFTER COVID: PROSPECTS, DANGERS, TEMPTATIONS
Thursday, October 17 , 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm CDT
October 17, 24, 31, November 7 (Thursdays) 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Attend in person at ISU’s Alumni Center, 1101 N. Main St., Normal
OR
Watch Online via Zoom
FEES:
$35 for Senior Professional members (includes all four sessions)
$45 for non-members (includes all four sessions)
For in-person participation, pricing is per person.
For Zoom participation, pricing is one registration per household.
Price includes:
Four 2-hour sessions (one Academy of Seniors class).
$15 single-session option available for in-person attendance (pay at door).
Register online at seniorprofessionals.illinoisstate.edu or call (309) 438-2160.
Zoom participants will receive a Zoom link a week prior to the start of the class(es) and again on the day of each session.
Class Description
From the Justinianic Plague (541-549 AD) to the Spanish Flu (1918), pandemics have caused upheaval on the vastest of scales. The COVID-19 emergency was no exception. History suggests that if there is one thing we can be certain of, it is that the post-COVID world is a very different place, as we continue to witness. This course examines the likely outcomes, some of them long-term or delayed, of the coronavirus pandemic at home and abroad. The two primary lines of inquiry will be the geopolitical and geocultural, with a focus on how the global changes already under way, and those that are yet to come, will impact Americans’ lives.
Richard Tempest, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Senior Editor, Journal of Political Marketing (Chicago)
