Date Posted: Sep 16, 2024
An Interview with Dr. Eileen Gavin on Serving Native Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Author: ritualsinthemaking
“Our Day Was Just Trying to Get Through”
Date Posted: Sep 16, 2024
An Interview with Pulmonologist Corrine Moreland, NP on Caring for the First COVID Patients in Texas.
Because You Have Already Buried Your Dead
Date Posted: August 2, 2024
Elsa Maldonado’s quest to bury her mother reveals the human cost of institutional failures during Ecuador’s COVID-19 crisis. Her story of dual loss – a misplaced body and unidentified ashes – exposes the struggle for dignity in death amidst overwhelming casualties.
Memory Loss: COVID as a Slow Disaster
DATE POSTED: AUGUST 2, 2024.
On March 5, 2024, the Rituals in the Making team kicked off its pandemic reflection series with a virtual seminar and discussion on historicizing COVID-19 and its global commemoration.
Across Pixels and Wi-Fi Connections: Making Zoom Funerals Sacred
Date Posted: June 25, 2024
Does language always fail us when we struggle to communicate about loss, or grapple with the discomfort of online funerals?
Ritual in motion: Rami’s Heart Covid-19 Memorial 4th Annual 5k “Walk to Remember”
Date Posted: June 20, 2024
RIM team member Sarah Wagner joined in the memorial’s annual remembrance walk at Belmar Beach.
Observations from the RIM’s 2024 Pandemic Reflections Series finale
DATE POSTED: JUN 18, 2024.
Members of the RIM team participated in the March 6th event, “Where the Flags Are Today: A Visit to the Home of In America: Remember.”
In America: Remember “Sleuthing” – Tracing and Tracking Down Flags from the Installation
DATE POSTED: May 16, 2024.
Volunteers archiving the In America flags reflect on how they solve even the most challenging puzzles among the flag collection and database.
Pandemic Revisionism and Social Forgetting: Intersections and Reflections
DATE POSTED: May 16, 2024.
Research assistant, Paige Gavin, invited Dr. Nancy Bristow and Dr. Katelyn Jetelina to present their thoughts on this new phase of the pandemic.
“‘The Living Record of Your Memory’: Mourning and Memorializing Pandemic Loss,” a seminar and discussion hosted by Rituals in the Making
DATE POSTED: November 29, 2023.
On October 27, 2023, the Rituals in the Making team hosted its
first virtual seminar and discussion on efforts to memorialize pandemic loss in the United States.