Report of the international workshop held on 26 November 2020 with experts from European universities who have initiated public COVID-19 platforms to collect testimonies.
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Pre-Existing Conditions: Pandemics as History
Historical Insights on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities: Illuminating a Path Forward
Pandemic Syllabus
Created by three historians of public health, this reading list provides a range of voices and perspectives that give context not just to COVID-19 but also to the medical, scientific, cultural, political, and economic structures that shape this and other pandemics. They are structures that, beyond biology alone, are often what make pandemics selectively—and unequally—deadly.
Imagining the Museum of 2020
History’s crystal ball: What the past can tell us about COVID-19 and our future
MISSING THEM: Remembering the New Yorkers Lost to COVID-19
MISSING THEM is a joint project of The City (a nonprofit, nonpartisan, digital news platform reporting on New York City), Columbia Journalism School, and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York that is building a searchable memorial to remember and honor all New Yorkers who have died of coronavirus. Obituary pages are missing names and stories, especially among members of the city’s black and Latino communities, which have been impacted at disproportionately high rates. To include a New Yorker lost due to the coronavirus:
- Call the hotline: (646) 494-1095
- Text “remember” to 73224
- Email memorial@thecity.nyc
Barnard Zine Library
Barnard Zine Library staff are collecting COVID-19 themed zines made by womxn, nonbinary people, and all members of the Barnard community. They can provide a postal address (the zine librarian’s home) or can print black and white pdfs on 8.5×11 paper. Email zines@barnard.edu to connect with them. As of June 13, there are 80 COVID-19 related zines in the collection, some of them with download links. The collection contains zines from at least nine countries, in four languages.
The Pandemic Journaling Project
The Pandemic Journaling Project from the University of Connecticut combines survey questions with open-ended journal entries to make sure that ordinary people struggling through this pandemic have their voices heard, and their experiences remembered. Participants will receive weekly prompts via email or text message with a link to a few questions and the option to create (via writing, audio, or uploading and describing a photo) brief description of how the pandemic is affecting them. Answers to the survey questions, together with the journal entries, will be preserved as a digital archive, and users can control the privacy and access settings for each entry. They will help researchers learn how different people are experiencing the pandemic, identify challenges in our country’s pandemic response, and work toward solutions.
#HerTestimony: A Campaign About Black Women’s Experiences of COVID-19 in North Carolina
#HerTestimony is a three-part campaign organized by The Beautiful Project, taking place during June and July 2020, focused on raising the voices of Black women in the coronavirus pandemic. The three components are: an online survey giving North Carolinian Black women an opportunity to share their stories anonymously, a narrative project, and a guide to help Black women engage storytelling in their own spaces. The Beautiful Project is a collective of image makers using photography, writing and care to create spaces for Black women and girls to confront the mass misunderstanding, misrepresentation and misuse of their likeness in the media and in the world at large.