Picturing (and Remembering) the Pandemic

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the Qualitative Data Repository at Syracuse University is hosting the exhibit “Picturing the Pandemic,” composed of selected images from the Pandemic Journaling Project.

Opening the exhibit, this panel brings together the Pandemic Journaling Project’s co-founders, Kate Mason (Brown) and Sarah Willen (UConn) with two Maxwell scholars who study the social and political aspects of COVID-19, Amy Fairchild and Shana Gadarian.

They each look at the pandemic through a different lens and using different methods—population surveys (Gadarian), oral histories (Fairchild) and multimedia online diaries (Mason & Willen). The conversation will investigate how we remember the pandemic today, how we will remember it in the future, and how remembering the pandemic affects our current reality.

Followed by a reception at the exhibition located in the Maxwell Foyer

Panelists

Amy Fairchild: University Professor, Sociology Department, Syracuse University; PI for project “At the Crossroads of Politics and Science: Public Health Leaders at the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Shana Gadarian: professor of political science, Syracuse University; author of Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID

Katherine A. Mason: associate professor of anthropology, Brown University; co-founder, Pandemic Journaling Project; author of Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic

Sarah Willen: professor of anthropology, University of Connecticut; co-founder, Pandemic Journaling Project; author of Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins

Moderator

Sebastian Karcher: director, Qualitative Data Repository, Syracuse University