Covid-19 and Comedy
The cliche that ‘laughter is the best medicine’ has probably never been less apt than during a global pandemic, but human beings do often resort to humour in the most desperate of circumstances. What role ...
Culture
How will covid effect our sensibilities? Will we retain our new respect for key workers or return to celebrity-worship? Will social distancing make us more afraid of strangers or bring us closer to one another? Will the creative arts survive and flourish or wither and die?
Covid-19 and Trust
Major destabilizing events frequently bring issues of trust sharply into focus. The current pandemic has proved no exception, stressing trust’s place (or lack thereof) in response to health guidelines, institutions, information, and even each other. ...
Covid-19 and Sport
The Pandemic and subsequent lockdown restrictions brought sport and much physical activity to a grinding halt in March 2020. Although government guidelines decreed physical activity a legitimate reason for leaving the house under lockdown, the ...
Covid and Food
Early in the pandemic, supermarket shelves in the West were stripped of produce in a wave of panic buying. But despite the unprecedented economic impact of covid-19 and the subsequent lockdowns, global food supply chains ...
Covid and Feminisms
On March 25th 2021, the Pandemic Perspectives group invited PGR Feminisms to lead a session on ‘Covid and Feminisms’. Founded by Alice Seville and Marie Allegre (PhD literature researchers University of Birmingham) and co-ran with ...
Covid and Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), was the head of the parliamentary communist group in Italy at the time of his arrest by Mussolini’s facist regime in 1926. Sentenced in 1928, Mussolini is reported as saying at his ...
Covid and Language
Language has changed under covid. In Britain, the Oxford English Dictionary in July 2020 added a special update to its customary quarterly updates of new words to document the impact of the pandemic on on ...
Covid and Time
To what degree has the Pandemic altered our perception of time? For many the sense of time progressing has ceased, replaced by an ‘endless’, looping, repetitive sense of time. How widespread is this feeling and ...
Love in the Time of Covid
Relationships have changed considerably in the time of Covid-19. For many, this has been in a positive direction, with roughly 20% of people saying that their relationships with their spouses, children, or neighbours have improved ...
Coronavirus & Historiography – How will the history of Coronavirus be written?
How will the history of coronavirus be written? Will it be recorded as a footnote to a larger story, or a profound ‘turning point’ in the economic, political, social and cultural history of the human ...