Santa Clara University held a virtual forum Oct. 1 and 2. | Pixabay
Santa Clara University is set to hold a two-day virtual forum regarding COVID-19 and racial injustice — what it calls the two pandemics, according to a university-issued news release.
The virtual event will include performances, panels, discussions and collective action, the news release states. It is sponsored by the Center for the Arts and Humanities and Sciences, along with the Bannan Forum of the University's Ignation Center for Jesuit Education.
The forum will have sessions and panels titled: "Public Goods, Inequality and Access," "Public Health, Race and Racism" and "Activism, Social Movements and Change," among others, according to the news release.
There will be more than 50 faculty, students, staff, alumni and community members and working on the virtual event.
“We were surprised and pleased both by the sheer volume of responses to our call for participants – twice as many as we were expecting – and by the interest among so many members of our campus community,” Michelle Burnham, director of the Center for the Arts and Humanities, said in the news release.
The Twin Pandemics Forum was held Oct. 1 and 2.