Heidi Larson, Director of and Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, will present the 2021 Kassen Lecture in Anthropology. Her talk "Emotional Contagion in Times of COVID: From Fear to Hope" will be on Friday, October 29th at 9:10 a.m. via Zoom.
Professor Larson will talk about her new book, STUCK: How Rumors Start - and Why They Don't Go Away, and the power of emotions and beliefs in the COVID-19 response. Historic and current inequities breed distrust, which can fuel anxieties and fear around mass vaccination campaigns, while building trust can instill hope, compliance and social cooperation.
She has published widely and lectured internationally on the drivers and enablers of vaccine confidence. She was awarded the 2021 Edinburgh Medal in recognition of her scientific work on the contagion of misinformation and its impact on human health.
Dr. Larson's presentation is co-sponsored by the ϳԹ COVID-19 Task Force and is being presented as the Keynote Speaker for the COVID-19 Pilot Grant Dissemination Day. For more information, click .
Larson's lecture is free and open to the public. Please register for the meeting to receive the Zoom Meeting link. You can view the event flier .
The Kassen Lecture, presented annually by the ϳԹ Department of Anthropology, features the work of prominent female social scientists. The Kassen Lecture series is made possible by the generous support of the estate of the late Drs. Aileen and Julian Kassen.
