Pandemic Politics: What have we learned?

Jane Duckett, Keynote speaker

Jane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow. She is a Fellow of the British Academy (2016), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2019), and the Academy of Social Sciences (2019). From 2014-2017 she was President of the British Association for Chinese Studies. Professor Duckett studied at Fudan University in Shanghai (1984-5 and 1987-8) and at Nankai University in Tianjin (1992-3). In the late 1980s she worked in the Shanghai office of the American law firm, Paul Weiss. She has also worked in China as a policy and social development consultant on a number of international aid projects. Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, the British Council, the British Academy, and the European Commission. Her research sits at the intersections of political science, Chinese studies, social and health policy.

Twitter: @j_duckett

Dianne M. Pinderhughes, Welcome

Dianne Pinderhughes is President of the International Political Science Association.  Pinderhughes is Notre Dame Presidential Faculty Fellow at the University of Notre Dame where she is Full Professor in the Department of Political Science and in the Department of Africana Studies.

Pinderhughes’ research addresses inequality with a focus on racial, ethnic and gender politics and public policy in the Americas. She has published or co-authored three books.

Craig Calhoun, Moderator

Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University. Previously, he was Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), President of the Berggruen Institute, and President of the Social Science Research Council. His publications address politics, economics, the impact of technology, and social change.

Margaret Levi, Discussant

Margaret Levi is the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford, Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University. She is the winner of the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize.  Her most recent books are In the Interest of Others (Princeton, 2013), co-authored with John Ahlquist, and A Moral Political Economy: Present, Past, Future(Cambridge University Press, 2021), co-authored with Federica Carugati.  She writes about what makes for a trustworthy government and what evokes citizen compliance, consent, and dissent.

Marianne Kneuer, Discussant

Marianne Kneuer is a Full Professor of Comparative Politics at the TU Dresden. Her research focuses on democratization and autocratization, quality of democracy, the impact of digitalization on democracy, e-democracy. Currently she chairs two research projects on solidarity in times of crisis: one on solidarity in migration crisis and one on solidarity in the Covid-19 crisis. Her area expertise refers to Latin America, Southern Europe and Central Eastern Europe. Marianne Kneuer served as President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) from 2018 to 2021.

Adebayo O. Olukoshi, Discussant

Adebayo Olukoshi holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Leeds and a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Ahmadu Bello University. He is presently a Distinguished Professor at the University of the Witswatersrand. He has previously served as Director for Africa and West Asia of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Director of the UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, Interim Executive Director of the Africa Governance Institute, Executive Secretary of the Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Senior Research Fellow/Research Programme Coordinator of the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, and Senior Programme Staff at the inter-governmental South Centre. He has held various academic fellowships and won various awards at different stages of his career, including the University of Johannesburg’s Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Award for Global Excellence and Stature.