Covid in verse: What imaginative responses to the pandemic tell us about justice and fairness Seminar

This seminar will be given by Professor David Gurnham, Professor of Criminal Law and Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the University of Southampton.

This paper takes a 'law and humanities' approach to poetic and artistic responses to the pandemic and efforts by governments to combat it. The pandemic has prompted many people to attempt to translate their experiences imaginatively in this way. As well as being fascinating simply as contributions to the arts and popular culture, these works (including those by children and people with no apparent artistic ability) also provide important information about how notions of justice and fairness are understood in the popular imagination, and how Covid-19 has shaped them. My paper asks what we can learn about these ideas, of obvious importance for policymakers, from 'Covid verse'. 

Please note that all seminars will be online. This semester, HEAL decided to celebrate the research carried out in Southampton Law School with a variety of topics at the interface between health, ethics and law. All welcome!

For more more details, please email: heal@soton.ac.uk