Call for papers for an edited book to be published at a university press:
Unlocked Memory – Did the Covid Pandemic Change Commemorations?
Editors:
Sarah Gensburger, Full Research Professor in Political Science at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Orli Fridman, Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Belgrade & School for International Training (SIT)
This volume will propose a number of questions to engage with: What happened to commemorative practices and rituals, around the world, during the pandemic and especially during the lock down periods? How did remembrance during the pandemic changed/shaped/reshaped/transformed commemorative actions and claims from below? Or those organized by state institutions? what will remembering the COVID-19 pandemic will actually entail and mean?
The editors invite scholars who engage with these questions to submit their proposals to include an abstract (250 words max), which must include a clear presentation of the proposed text including well defined methodology, and a short resume of 10 lines maximum. The editors are particularly interested in texts based on research conducted on commemorative events that have taken place in the spring and summer of 2020 capturing both the creation of the memorialization of the lockdown period itself, as well as official and alternative commemorations and memory activism during the early months of the pandemic lockdown.
Deadline for abstract submission: December 7, 2021.
Click here to see the full Call for Papers (PDF).