explore the impact of SARS
Researchers, medical practitioners, pol-,icy makers and others who have been on the "frontlines" of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic will share their experiences with members of the Yale community in a workshop taking place Friday-Sunday, Sept. 19-21.
The event, titled "Globalization's Newest Challenge: SARS," is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies - part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) - and the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
"Our goal is to present a workshop for the greater Yale community that will allow us to understand the first 10 months of the SARS outbreak in the largest socio-cultural framework," says Deborah S. Davis, professor of sociology and director of graduate studies in East Asian Studies, and other organizers of the workshop in a description of the event.
Many Yale faculty and students "had their lives disrupted by the spread of SARS," and have not had the opportunity since to reflect on the long-term complications of the disease, adds Davis, who will serve as the moderator of the workshop.
"Because we presume that the global world economy and frequent transcontinental travel means that SARS, or another such illness, will again challenge economic, social and cultural institutions, as well as those of health care, we have decided to bring together scholars, researchers, writers, policy makers and medical practitioners who have personally dealt with SARS this past spring to share with us their understanding of where we stand in the fall of 2003," the organizers say.
The workshop will open on Friday evening at 8 p.m. with "Artistic Reponses to SARS," a special screening of films and videos and an exhibition of photographs depicting life in areas heavily affected by SARS,. These events will take place in the auditorium and second-floor common room of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Saturday's events will begin at 8:45 a.m. with opening remarks by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, chair of the Council on East Asian Studies and professor of art history; Susan Hockfield, Yale provost and the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology; and Davis. This will take place in Davies Auditorium of Becton Center, 15 Prospect St.
During the day, there will be four panel discussions that explore the impact of the SARS epidemic. The first of these, "Medicine and Public Health," will begin at 9 a.m. and will be moderated by Dr. Michele Barry, director of Yale's International Health Office and professor of medicine and global health. It will focus on the first-hand experience in dealing with SARS of public health and government officials, a medical professional and a health and science writer.
The second panel discussion, on "Politics and Society," will begin at 11:15 a.m. and will explore the long-term impact of SARS on openness and participation across political systems. Pierre-Francois Landry, assistant professor of political science at Yale, will moderate.
"Economics and Trade," the third panel discussion, will begin at 2 p.m. and will examine how SARS outbreaks have affected the structure and dynamics of the global economy. It will be moderated by Helen F. Siu, professor and director of graduate studies in anthropology.
The final panel discussion, "Culture and Media," will begin at 4 p.m. It features a roundtable discussion of culture and media issues and addresses a range of larger historical comparisons.
The screening of films and videos and the photography exhibit will be offered again on Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium and second-floor common room.
Sunday's events include a policy roundtable 9:30-11:30 a.m. focusing on policy implications and the lessons learned from SARS.
Other Yale participants in "Globalization's Newest Challenge: SARS" include Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Center for the Study of Globalization; Nancy E. Chapman, executive director of the Yale-China Association; Dr. Norbert Hirschhorn, a lecturer at the School of Medicine and consultant to the World Health Organization; William Kelly, the Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies and professor of anthropology; John Treat, professor of Japanese and chair of East Asian Languages and Literatures; James Tweedie, a postdoctoral associate in the Crossing Borders Program of YCIAS; Abbey Newman, council manager and administrator for the Council on East Asian Studies' China Program, who is also the coordinator of the workshop; Gustav Ranis, the Henry R. Luce Director of YCIAS and the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics; and Fan Yun, a Coca-Cola Visiting Fellow at YCIAS.
A complete schedule of events can be found on the Council of East Asian Studies website at www.yale.edu/ycias/ceas/sars.html. For more information, call Abbey Newman at (203) 432-9382.
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