Thursday, February 25     5 - 7 p.m. EST

Trump as Vector: Pandemic Denialism and the Anti-Lockdown Revolt

Mike Davis is Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Riverside (USA). His numerous publications include City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso, 1990), and Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Verso, 2000). His most recent books are The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism (OR Books, 2020), and Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (with Jon Wiener, Verso, 2020).