How are students and faculty working collaboratively in ways that respond inclusively to constraints on bodyminds, resource availability, and access in the broadest and most narrow of meanings? Please join us for the launch of a series of conversations about emerging models of collaborative faculty-student research and public scholarship in the health humanities.

In our first conversation, hear presentations from Dr. Kristin Bright (Middlebury College) on The Body Online Lab, Dr. Jacquelyne Luce (Mount Holyoke College) on the Feminist Technoscience Governance Collaboratory, and Dr. Sarah Willen (University of Connecticut) on the Pandemic Journaling Project.

The conversation series on “Feminist Health Futures: enacting Collaborative Pedagogies in the Health Humanities” is funded by a grant from the New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC).

When the history of COVID-19 is written, let’s make sure Sinti and Roma perspectives are included. Be part of tomorrow’s story, today.

Join PJP and the Sinti PowerClub on Friday, 7 July, at 16:00. Kapuzinerstr. 18, Ravensburg, Germany.

Are you part of the Sinti & Roma community?

* Do you have a photo that captures an important pandemic memory or experience?
* Would you like to preserve your photo for the future? Click here to upload your photo:

You can also send your photo, with a brief description, to powerclub@sinti-rv.de.

Retratando la Pandemia / Picturing the Pandemic: Imágenes del proyecto Diarios de la Pandemia y El Colegio de México will open at Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas on 9 May 2023 at 13:00, in partnership with the college’s Centro de Estudios de Genero.

• Aprende más aquí.

Picturing the Pandemic will open at the Mark Twain Center for Transatlantic Relations on 27 April 2023, at 19.30. Join us!

Mark Twain Center for Transatlantic Relations

Römerstraße 162
69126 Heidelberg

• Directions: English / Deutsch

Join UConn’s Center for the Study of Culture, Health, and Human Development for "Journaling the Pandemic: What 25,000+ Journal Entries Can Tell Us about the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Mental Health Impact” with Sarah Willen, Co-founder of the Pandemic Journaling Project, and Co-curator of Picturing the Pandemic.

WHEN: Thursday, April 13th
TIME: 4-5 pm EST
WHERE: WebEx & In-Person (Bousfield Psychology Building, Room 106A)

A Live Q&A session will follow the presentation.

• Click here to register.

Online talk: “Picturing the Pandemic: Cultivating New Spaces for Human Rights Dialogue, Local and Global.”

Join the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC) for a talk by Sarah S. Willen (Anthropology, University of Connecticut) and Alexis L. Boylan (Art and Art History, Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut), lead curators of the Picturing the Pandemic exhibition, together with Uwe Wenzel (Mark Twain Center for Transatlantic Relations, Heidelberg), curator of the exhibition’s Heidelberg site, which launches on April 27.

The HRRC Salon is a series of virtual monthly expert talks with informal discussion. The Salon is open to the public.

11am-12pm in Connecticut (EST) / 17:00-18:00 in Germany (CET) 

Zoom Link: s.uconn.edu/hrrc-salon

More information about HRRC is available on the events page.

Providence-area friends: Join Katherine Mason, PJP Co-founder and Picturing the Pandemic Co-curator, along with the student curators of the Swearer Center exhibit for an in-person tour of all three Brown University exhibition sites on Thursday, April 6, from 10:30-11:50am ET.

Click here to register.

Join us on Wednesday, March 22, for a festive launch event and panel discussion of Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journaling Project and the Rhode Island COVID-19 Archive at the Providence Public Library (PPL). Click here to register.

The event will take place at our main exhibition stop in Providence: the Providence Public Library, 150 Empire Street, Providence, Rhode Island.

Our Providence stop also includes three additional exhibits on the Brown University campus:

1. Stephen Robert Campus Center (launching 3/22, in partnership with the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology)

2. Population Studies and Training Center (launching 3/22)

3. Swearer Center (launching 3/24)

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine at Middlebury College presents “Journaling the Pandemic: What 25,000+ Journal Entries Can Tell Us about the COVID-19 Pandemic – and Ourselves.”

In this discussion, medical anthropologists Sarah Willen (University of Connecticut) and Katherine Mason (Brown University) will introduce the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP), a combined journaling platform and research study they co-created in 2020 as a space where ordinary people around the world could create a weekly chronicle of their pandemic experiences using words, audio, or images. Not only does PJP provide a powerful window onto the varied impact of COVID around the globe, but its logic of “archival activism” and method of “grassroots collaborative ethnography” show how innovative, public-facing research methods can shape future understandings of a contemporary global health crisis.

To view a recording of this webinar, please use this link or visit the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs events.

Join us as we take a closer look at the Picturing the Pandemic and Hartford 2020 exhibitions, which both speak to people's documentation of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Register for the opening reception.

How has the COVID-19 pandemic imprinted itself in our lives? How might a trove of first-person reflections on the changing texture of pandemic life – created with the ordinary tools of 21st century digital life – both enrich and challenge our understanding of ourselves and our society? To answer these questions, speaker Sarah Willen (University of Connecticut) and her colleagues launched The Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) in May 2020 as a combined journaling platform and research study created in 2020. Join us to learn about the project’s key findings, its value as a window on the mental health impact of COVID-19, and how “archival activism” can shape future understandings of our current time period.

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In Summer 2022, the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) visited six Hartford Public Library branches to host “Picturing the Pandemic,” a chance for children and youth to capture their thoughts and feelings about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their daily lives. Together, we can think about how we’ve changed—and how we can find our voice and change our world for the better.