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20th April 2021
This conference will engage with the cultural, political, economic, and societal implications of the Covid-19 pandemic. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the post-Covid future, we aim to explore the historical and epistemological contexts of the global response, the pandemic’s potential ramifications in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, and how the virus has altered society at large. We invite participants to consider broad-ranging topics that span a variety of scales. Some topics that participants may consider include:
We are pleased to announce the conference agenda:
The conference schedule and booklet (including abstracts of all papers) are available via the links below:
The Pandemic Perspectives Group is an M4C-led, open interdisciplinary community of researchers from around the world. The group was founded by M4C-funded PhD researcher David Christie (University of Birmingham) with the aims of facilitating collaboration between M4C-funded and non-M4C-funded researchers as well as integrating the specialisms from a wide range of scholarly fields to interpret and analyse the unique significance of the pandemic in contemporary history. Following months of stimulating conversation and informal debate, the Pandemic Perspectives Group decided to organise a formal event in which scholars and researchers could bring their uniquely well-informed perspectives to a discussion of the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Sadegh Attari – PhD candidate (English Literature) at the University of Birmingham
- David Christie – PhD candidate (Modern History) at the University of Birmingham
- Hanan Fara – PhD candidate (Sociology of Religion) at the University of Birmingham
- Niall Gallen – PhD candidate (English Literature) at the University of Birmingham
- Richard Kendall – PhD candidate (Classics) at the University of Edinburgh
- Liam J. L. Knight – PhD candidate (English Literature) at the University of Birmingham
- Ronan Love – PhD candidate (History) at the University of Warwick
Further Information
For further updates on Pandemic Perspectives and the Conference, please check our website (https://pandemic-perspectives-uk.com/) and Twitter page (@Pandemic_Persp).
A collected volume of the papers presented at the conference has been published by Ubiquity Press as an issue of Ubiquity Proceedings. The collection is open-access and can be found here.