Podcasts Culture At a Distance Annelise Riles on the Pandemic as a Window of Opportunity

Annelise Riles on the Pandemic as a Window of Opportunity

Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 4 a.m.

Anthropologist and legal scholar Annelise Riles, the executive director of Northwestern University’s Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies, discusses America’s shifting relationship with China amid Covid-19, rethinking how knowledge is made, and how language can be both a barrier to and a means for human connection.