Jacob Remes – Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies

New Ideas in Climate Change and Critical Disaster Studies

March 15, 2021 February 15, 2021 By Jacob Remes

To celebrate the founding of the Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies, we have invited three thinkers, organizers, and activists to share their New Ideas in Climate Change and Critical Disaster Studies. Please join us for three lectures. February 26, 12:30 Eastern time “Building the Bridge to Recovery: How Workers Can Lead on Climate Justice” John Cartwright, president of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council Too often, workers and their communities bear the brunt of the displacement, dislocation,

Public Books and the NYU Cities Collaborative publish “Crisis Cities”

November 24, 2020 November 24, 2020 By Jacob Remes

NYU Urban Initiative co-director Thomas Sugrue has edited Crisis Cities, a public symposium on the 2020 crises and their impact on urban life, a partnership of the NYU Cities Collaborative and Public Books. In his introduction to the series, Sugrue writes, Just as COVID-19 is particularly dangerous to populations with preexisting conditions, the virus has ferociously swept through urban areas because of their preexisting social conditions: the precarity of work; the unaffordability of housing; the depth of racial,

Grant to develop, implement, and evaluate the Disaster Nursing Project

November 16, 2020 November 16, 2020 By Jacob Remes

Theresa Bucco of NYU’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing has received a grant from Center for Faculty Advancement at NYU. The Curricular Development Challenge Fund was established to assist the development, expansion, review, or redirection of academic programs and courses at New York University. The CDCF grant will support the development, implementation, and evaluation of “The Disaster Nursing Project” which will be an innovative, immersive initiative within the required Community Health Course (UG 1244) using simulation. The purpose

Nearly a quarter of NYC transit workers report having had Covid-19

November 20, 2020 October 20, 2020 By Jacob Remes

A survey of New York City’s bus and subway workers finds that 24 percent report having contracted COVID-19 and 90 percent fear getting sick at work. The pilot study, conducted by researchers at NYU School of Global Public Health, in coordination with the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, helps document the toll the pandemic has taken on the physical and mental health of essential workers. As New York City became an early U.S. epicenter of the COVID-19

57th ITH Conference: The Political Ecology of Work in Times of Disaster

November 18, 2021 November 18, 2001 By Jacob Remes

Submission Deadline: 01/31/2022 — The Political Ecology of Work in Times of Disaster Linz/Austria, 22–24 September 2022 The 2022 ITH conference takes from the present epidemiological crisis to reflect on other times of disaster and their implications for workers, organised labour and labour relations. This includes ecological disasters like earthquakes, floods or droughts; technological disasters such as Fukushima in 2011 or the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984; medical crises like epidemics or pandemics, such as the Black Death,

Climates and Cultures in History

November 9, 2021 November 9, 2001 By Jacob Remes

Submission Deadline: 03/15/2022 — In 2022, ‘Climates and Cultures in History’ (CCH) will publish a special issue (1 or 2) on anthropogenic climate change. This call invites proposals for contributions on all aspects relating to anthropogenic climate change in history. The ‘early anthropogenic hypothesis’ (EAH), introduced by William Ruddiman, allows for the discussion of several periods in the long Holocene. However, the EAH remains controversial. We welcome proposals for reviews on the state of the art of debates