This is the third podcast in the IAS series on ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Here we listen to Haim Yacobi, Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Michelle Pace, Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark discuss the potential impact of Covid 19 in Gaza. Their analysis forms part of a wider Welcome Trust funded research project on the interconnections of power, violence and health in contemporary conflict zones.

We hope you will find this piece informative.

• Music by  Small Haus, Best of feelings and from the BBC Sound Archive. ​​​​​​​
• Produced and edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
• Communications by Patricia Mascarell Llombart
• Executive Producer is Tamar Garb

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by Philippa Hetherington

Welcome to the Institute of Advanced Studies' podcast series on ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. In this second episode we hear from Philippa Hetherington, Lecturer in Modern Eurasian History in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Philippa is a scholar of international legal history, biopolitics and feminist theory, particularly in the context of empire and under socialism.

Here she reflects on the virus in relation to historical debates on sexuality and the stigmatisation of sex workers. Historians are well placed to think about previous incarnations of disease and spread so that we work out what is and what isn't unprecedented.

We hope you enjoy this piece.

• Music is by Best of Feelings and BBC Sound Archive
• Image: The Silence = Death Project by ACT-UP, The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power. Colour lithograph, 1987.
• Produced and edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar and Catherine Stokes
• Communications by Patricia Mascarell Llombart
• Executive Producer is Tamar garb

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'We’ve all become used to hearing this phrase ‘underlying conditions’ in the context of COVID 19. Our unfortunate newsreaders have to keep repeating it in the daily litany of statistics and particularly the grim daily toll of COVID 19 deaths. We are told that in the vast majority of cases where an individual does badly with this infection that they suffered from one or more underlying condition (by which is usually meant, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, asthma…. What are often and misleadingly called “noncommunicable diseases”) And when we’re told that they didn’t have any of these, there is, I think, an extra palpable sense of shock and horror...'

• Music is by Best of Feelings and BBC Sound Archive
• Produced and edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar and Catherine Stokes
• Communications by Patricia Mascarell Llombart
• Executive Producer is Tamar garb

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