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.
Tag: COVID
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.
‘When Everything is Stripped Away, What is Left is All We Really Need’
DATE POSTED: March 15, 2021.
“I cut sprigs and then tucked them in the grave by the coffin. I think these were more meaningful than store-bought flowers because they were her flowers. Her azaleas.”
When One Cannot Sit Shiva
DATE POSTED: February 26, 2021.
When we spoke to Emma, a 27 year-old social work student in Manhattan, she was still feeling overwhelmed by the deaths of her two grandfathers, Bob and Marty. She was also overwhelmed by the rules Jewish funerals necessitated.