Author, Bloomberg CityLab journalist and MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow Laura Bliss presents The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under Covid-19 (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022). Through 65 homemade maps and 8 original essays, the book offers a window into what individuals around the world were experiencing during the crisis and its resonant social consequences. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, co-creator of Nonstop Metropolis and author of Names of New York called it “an indelible account–often funny, sometimes sad, always revelatory–of how a microbe changed the ways that humans everywhere relate to place. A treasure.”

Copies of the book will be available for purchase on site; a book signing will follow the speaking portion of the event. This event is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the MIT Press Bookstore and the MIT Welcome Center.