When the Music’s Over

We’ve had balcony concerts. Livestreams. Pots and pans banging. And clapping. (So much clapping). But we continue to ask: what next?

What happens when the music stops, but the surveillance doesn’t? When bands return to stadiums, but emergency powers don’t return to the statute books? When the ‘new normal’ becomes the same old scope creep? When beaches reopen, but migrant worker dorms don’t?

When the pandemic is over, what happens next?

Our webinar series “When the Music’s Over” brings together an array of scholars, practitioners, and artists, to parse and reimagine the evolving post-COVID19 landscape. We’ll talk rights, norms, policies, practices and artifacts. And we’ll do it with a particular focus on power, inequality, access and vulnerability. In Asia, and beyond.ring together an array of scholars, practitioners, and artists, to parse and reimagine the evolving post-COVID19 landscape. We’ll talk rights, norms, policies, practices and artifacts. And we’ll do it with a particular focus on power, inequality, access and vulnerability. In Asia, and beyond.

The series was held in partnership with the the Global Network of Internet & Society Centers and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Political Dialogue Asia. 

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Explore insights into our post-Covid future from the experts here.

Webinars

Check out all of our past weekly conversation series, When the Music’s Over, here.