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|Videos|October 27, 2020
Quarantine Through the Lens of Creative History
Author(s)Jessica Carson
After the bubonic plague came the Renaissance? What will follow the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Jessica Carson brings up a reassuring point: after periods of illness or turmoil, comes a creative epoch.
Ms Carson is Director of Innovation at at a major mental health organization, Expert in Residence at Georgetown University, and author of Wired This Way.
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