Date Posted: June 20, 2024
RIM team member Sarah Wagner joined in the memorial’s annual remembrance walk at Belmar Beach.
Category: Dispatches from the Field
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.
Expertise under Debate: Observations of Dueling Facts before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic
DATE POSTED: August 21, 2023.
Team members returned to the Rayburn Building on July 27, 2023, to attend a second subcommittee hearing, this time on COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Notes on Rituals of Remembrance at the Kentucky COVID Memorial Dedication Ceremony
DATE POSTED: August 21, 2023.
Special advisor to “Rituals in the Making” and author of Who We Lost: A Portable COVID Memorial,Martha Greenwald reflects on one state’s decision to memorialize the pandemic.
Autism and the Challenge of grief during the COVID-19 pandemic
DATE POSTED: June 26, 2023.
Team member Roy Grinker met with a psychotherapist to talk about how neurodivergent young adults at a residential therapeutic boarding school coped with loss during the pandemic
From Tragedies to Talking Points: Observing Congressional Attempts to Assert Authority over COVID Grief and Blame
DATE POSTED: June 26, 2023.
Reflections on a recent House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on COVID deaths in nursing homes.
Memory and Affect: Comparing Experiences of COVID Loss in Brazil and the United States
DATE POSTED: May 29, 2023.
Sarah Wagner and Andreia Vicente presented a joint paper at a memory studies conference on “cut-off” ritual and its effect on mourning and commemoration.