What role are COVID-19 vaccines developed in China and Russia playing during a moment marked by widespread vaccine nationalism and global efforts to ensure equitable access? This webinar brings together a group of social scientists to discuss the politics of these vaccines.

Join Judyth Twigg (Virginia Commonwealth University), Dali Yang (University of Chicago), and Olga Zvonareva (Maastricht University), for a discussion moderated by Eugene Raikhel (University of Chicago).

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies with support from Title VI National Resource Center Grants from the United States Department of Education.

Recorded April 21, 2021

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Judyth Twigg is a professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches courses on global health, international political economy, and Russian politics.

Dali Yang is William Claude Reavis Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on the politics and political economy of China. Among his books are Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China (Stanford University Press, 2004); Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (Routledge, 1997); and Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine (Stanford University Press, 1996).

Olga Zvonareva is Assistant professor of Health, Ethics, and Society at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, as well as an Associate Professor at Siberian State Medical University and Tomsk State University in Russia. She is the author of recently published book ‘Pharmapolitics in Russia: Making drugs and rebuilding the nation’ and coeditor of ‘Health, technologies and politics in post-Soviet settings: Navigating uncertainties’

Eugene Raikhel is Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development at he University of Chicago. He is also the Director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies. Professor Raikhel is a cultural and medical anthropologist with interests encompassing the anthropology of science, biomedicine and psychiatry; addiction and its treatment; suggestion and healing; and post-socialist transformations in Eurasia.

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