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New York Responds: The First Six Months

New York Responds: The First Six Months looks at the still-unfolding events of 2020 through the eyes of over 100 New Yorkers. This crowd-sourced exhibition presents objects, photographs, videos, and other artworks that document and interpret the COVID pandemic, the racial justice uprisings, and the responses of New Yorkers as they fought to cope, survive, and forge a better future. A jury of a dozen New Yorkers representing many walks of life helped to make the selection from among tens of thousands of submissions received from individual artists and from partner institutions.

Museum of the City of New York, December 18, 2020 through May 9, 2021

New York Responds: A Timeline of Year One

This timeline is part of a larger Museum of the City of New York exhibit, New York Responds. It was curated by Azra Dawood, the Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow, with data visualization and web design by Sandy Guberti Ng. It is periodically illustrated by footage from Brooklyn-based artist and photojournalist Ian Reid.

Bioethical Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Digital Collection

This collection consists of the work of Georgetown University faculty on bioethical issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes articles (written for both the general public and the scholarly community) and recordings of lectures and webinars that have been presented in the wake of the pandemic. A number of Georgetown University affiliated institutions are represented in the collection, including the Kennedy Institute of Ethics; the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics; Global Engagement; the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs; and the Catholic Health Association. Works produced by Georgetown scholars that have been published by external organizations are also included in the collection.

Pandemic Perspectives: Stories Through Collections

The National Museum of American History’s Pandemic Perspectives series of online programs presents curators, historians, and topic specialists in engaging panel discussions offering perspectives on the current pandemic. Panelists virtually share historic objects and photographs as a springboard to a lively discussion of how to better understand the present. Audience questions are encouraged and will be addressed during the moderated dialogue. Information on upcoming programs as well as links to recording of previous sessions are available.

Immigrants in COVID America

Immigrants in COVID America, a project from the University of Minnesota’s Immigration History Research Center, documents the first six-month period of the pandemic in the U.S. – beginning with the January 30, 2020 World Health Organization declaration that the coronavirus outbreak was an international emergency – and focuses on four issues that have particularly affected immigrants, refugees, and asylees during the pandemic: immigration policy, health, labor & the economy, and anti-Asian xenophobia.

The project highlights fact-based research and reporting from reputable national media sources and think tanks supplemented by ethnic and local media. It also includes perspectives from experts, scholars, and political commentators and provide a summary analysis of emerging trends and issues. A variety of methods are used to identify sources, including Google news alerts and immigration-related newsletters and digests, such as Migratory Notes and ImmigrationProfBlog. Diverse perspectives and opinions – political and otherwise – are included whenever possible, especially when they highlight the trajectory behind certain policies and the experiences of immigrants and refugees themselves.

It also includes Stories from the Pandemic, a collaboration with the Sahan Journal (a nonprofit digital newsroom dedicated to providing authentic news reporting for and about immigrants and refugees in Minnesota) to create digital stories documenting the experiences of immigrants and refugees during the pandemic.

History Now: The Pandemic Diaries Project

As the COVID-19 pandemic transforms lives across the city, nation, and world, The New York Public Library seeks to document this pivotal moment in our history—and wants to hear and preserve your story. The Pandemic Diaries project invites submissions, via an online form, audio recordings of yourself or your loved ones telling personal stories about life amid the pandemic. The audio diaries collected as part of this project will document the experiences of people from all walks of life, in their own words. These diaries will be archived in NYPL’s research libraries—the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts—to be preserved and made available to the public, scholars, journalists, and students for decades to come.