Open AccessOur Short Talks
Author(s) -
Pierandrea Lo Nostro
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
substantia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2532-3997
DOI - 10.36253/substantia-1383
Subject(s) - denial , democracy , pandemic , politics , covid-19 , political science , happening , intellectual property , sociology , media studies , social science , environmental ethics , law , history , psychology , medicine , psychoanalysis , philosophy , disease , pathology , performance art , infectious disease (medical specialty) , art history
We recently organized the first edition of Substantia Short Talks to discuss some hot topics within the community of our journal. It was a recorded online event, that took place online on July 1, 2021, at 4 pm CEST.In 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic that forced us to restrain or limit our social and cultural activities, we thought to offer a lively cultural happening to strengthen our interactions and to ponder on some remarkable issues that affect our lives as scientists and citizens in a globalized world.Examples that came up to our minds were quite some. Just to mention a few: the protection of intellectual property and the worldwide distribution of life-saving drugs (e.g. the anti-Covid vaccines) at very low costs; the relationship between science and politics, i.e. Black Lives Matter and the harsh debate between some international scientific journals and publishers; or the denial of freedom and democracy and even the lack of scientific dissemination in some countries, and so forth.