Chancellor's Colloquium covers racism and rebellion during pandemic

Even during a global a pandemic, the intellectual life at UC Davis is alive and well. Today, I was able to watch the Chancellor’s Colloquium with Gary Younge who delivered a talk titled, “Going Viral: Race, Racism, and Rebellion in the Midst of a Pandemic.”

The Chancellor’s Colloquium is an annual speaker series that excites the imagination and challenges the way we see the world. From musicians and academics, to actors, authors and more, this diverse group of intellectuals addresses some of society’s most critical issues in thoughtful, yet unconventional ways.

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian, he is an editorial board member of The Nation magazine and the Alfred Knobler Fellow at Type Media Center. He has written five books, the most recent of which, Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and was chosen for the 2019-2020 UC Davis Campus Community Book Project.