Description
The workshop will engage speakers in a transdisciplinary and transnational dialogueon the nexus between trust, transparency and Covid-19 management, with a particular
focus on the vaccination strategies adopted by governments and their varying success.
Our cases of interest span Europe and Asia. By comparing within and between these
vast regions, we hope to gain a sharpened insight into what went right - and wrong - in
Covid-19 management, and how these lessons may be applied to future pandemics. In
terms of transdisciplinarity, the questions raised by Covid-19 are germane to the
medical and the social sciences. From an International Relations perspective, Covid-
19 gets to the heart of what comprises a common good – the global commons. From a
public policy perspective, Covid-19 is the wicked policy problem par excellence,
requiring inter-agency collaboration. From a comparative politics perspective, Covid-
19 provides a vast living dataset to engage in multi-level comparisons and real-time
experiments. In the medical research field, the pandemic has provided advancements
in medical science that would not have been possible without access to a living
laboratory. The huge advances in medical science, especially in relation to vaccines,
have themselves been filtered by societal variables such as trust and transparency, or
risk and resilience. These are the themes addressed by the workshop, hosted by
HKBU’s Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, the only enterprise of its kind in Hong
Kong.
Number of attendees (for events)
40| Period | 24 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Degree of Recognition | International |