Hell and back: On the road with the pandemic. What the virus taught us about equality, freedom and journalism.

Using her extensive ground level experience reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic, Barkha Dutt’s lecture will focus on how COVID-19 spawned a new social order, exposed entrenched inequities, revealed deep-seated prejudice and called out attention to the invisibility of the world’s poorest citizens. COVID-19 was often described as the ‘great equaliser’. Barkha Dutt will argue why, in truth, the exact opposite has happened.

This event is hybrid, taking place both in person and online.

Part of the Green Templeton Lectures 2022 - theme is science and the media | Green Templeton College (ox.ac.uk)