We are pleased to announce the publication of a collected volume of the papers presented at our conference in April 2021 by Ubiquity Press. The collection is open-access and available on Ubiquity Press’ proceedings journal, ...
We are delighted to announce the new Pandemic Perspectives Seminar Series! The series will bring you pioneering voices from across the globe with lectures on diverse topics ranging from the Black Death to the South-Asian ...
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 ...
Pandemic Perspectives has looked at the impact of Covid-19 from myriad different angles and debated its effect on politics, economics, culture and society from both national and global perspectives. Prior to our July 22nd session, ...
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. ...
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 ...
This article was originally published on Richard Kendall’s personal blog. Reproduced here with the author’s permission. Image credits: Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Richard Kendall ‘Alright, well. I had a tracked ...
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 ...
In March 2020, New York City was once again America’s ‘Ground Zero’, as the pandemic hit the Big Apple first and hardest of the 52 states. By mid-April the city was recording an average of ...
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 ...
