National Science Foundation Grant Research on Funerary Ritual Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
DATE POSTED: MARCH 9, 2025
Moving to an assisted living home in the midst of a global pandemic might seem like a
controversial choice, but for Ilona Lund (“Noni”) and her husband, the decision was simple. “The
isolation, and not knowing how the pandemic was going to end, played a large role in our
decision to move.”
Date Posted: Jan 31, 2025.
On January 16th, the Rituals in the Making team invited Jay Winter to discuss his current research on the history of the Mir Yeshiva and their story of survival.
Date Posted: Jan 2, 2025.
Recently, I picked up the graphic novel COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology by various comic artists, who all experienced the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown differently [as we all did]. Grief, anxiety, hope, community, anger, frustration, love, care, creativity, politics, and despair are all themes touched upon through art in this anthology in ways I have not even thought of.
Date posted: December 14, 2024
Lear tells us that he read “On Transience” differently before and during the pandemic. Before the pandemic, he considered it merely a poignant meditation on ephemeral beauty, and the imagined losses of the impending war. After the pandemic, he read it as an allegory of Freud’s own process of mourning.
Date posted: November 17, 2024
In the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, RIM paid close attention to how and when the pandemic got mentioned.
Date Posted: NOV 11, 2024.
On October 8, 2024, Avery Nennmann and Hanaan Khabir interviewed Dr. Bill Morris on his experiences during the early months of the pandemic for the More than a Healthcare Hero Initiative.
Date Posted: OCT 1, 2024
Three years after In America: Remember installation was dismantled, Suzanne and her team of volunteers returned to the Mall for two days (September 21 and 22, 2024) to write down their memories of the installation and record oral histories.
Date Posted: Sep 16, 2024
An Interview with Pulmonologist Corrine Moreland, NP on Caring for the First COVID Patients in Texas.
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.
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?