Humans in the Post-Covid World within the Gaidar Forum 2021 "Russia and the World after Pandemic"

The Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center is a world-class research center that implements projects in priority areas of science and technology development. Established to carry out breakthrough research of fundamental and exploratory nature, the center focuses on humanitarian and social study of the interaction between man and nature, man and technology, and social institutions as society’s effective response to major challenges.

Panellists:

Lilia Ovcharova, Vice Rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Sergey Zuev, Rector, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

Andrey Baykov, Vice Rector for Research and International Cooperation, MGIMO University

Marina Butovskaya, Head of the Center for Cross-Cultural Psychology and Human Ethology, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Science (online)

During the roundtable, it is planned to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on different aspects of human existence: people’s behavior, habits, values, beliefs, etc. The participants will try to figure out how our contemporaries will change both in the short and in the longer term. Will people really never be the same again?

Issues for discussion:
• How will people - our contemporaries - change as a result of the pandemic? Their behavior, habits, relationships?
• Will their economic strategies change? Forms of employment? Labour preferences? Are they ready for new challenges?
• Will inequality between people increase?

No registration is required for the event.
Webcast will be available on the day of discussion at the Forum Website.
More information about the session is here.

Time: 16:30 - 17:15 (Moscow Time Zone)

Working languages: Russian, English