For many around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has meant unprecedented change: new experiences of being "locked down", new language to express what was happening and new practices of remembrance. This event brings together scholars and practitioners to discuss how the pandemic has affected us and how people have responded to deal with their changed daily routines, their grief, their disorientation. Have individuals and communities come up with novel strategies and to what extent have they linked to existing ones? How can we learn from this "lockdown" for the future?

One-day symposium, 20th July 2021, 10am - 5.45pm

Centre for Public History, Heritage and memory

Nottingham Trent University (online only)

PROGRAM

10.30-12.15 Panel One: The Language of Covid-19, Moderated by Natalie Braber (NTU)

- Elizabeth Stokoe, (Loughborough University): "COVID-19: The messaging, the communication, and the conversation".

- Tara Coltman-Patel, William Dance and Elena Semino, (Lancaster University): "Studying vaccination discourse in COVID-19 times: Introducing a new corpus-based project".

- Jamie Williams and David Wright (Nottingham Trent University): "Ambiguity, Transitivity, and Responsibility in the UK daily Coronavirus Briefings"

- Justyna Robinson, Rhys Sandow, Albertus Andito, Harriet Nye, Brendan Raw, Joe Thompson- Smith, Julie Weeds: "Conceptual Restructuring as an Outcome of Lockdown - Changes in Working Practices in the UK 2006-2021"

12.15 - 13.30: Lunch

13.30 - 15.15: Panel Two: Mental Health & Covid- 19, Moderated by Steven Brown (NTU)

Roundtable discussion with Katharine Lazenby (Peabody Housing Association), Jo Edge (University of Manchester), Paula Reavey (London Southbank Uni) and Daniel King (NTU)

15.15-15.30: Coffee Break

15.30 - 17.17: Panel Three: Commemoration and Covid-19, Moderated by Jenny Wüstenberg (NTU)

- Jane Hardstaff, (Artist & Co-founder of Common Threads): The Resilience Quilt: Stitched responses to the Covid-19 pandemic

- Dr Rebecca Dolgoy, (Curator of Natural Resources and Industrial Technologies at Ingenium, Canada): "Curating Under Quarantine: A "long-form" curatorial response to COVID-19”

- Mark McGlashan (Birmingham City University): COVID-19 Memorials: Networked discourses of online bereavement

17.15-17.45: Wrap up discussion & Concluding Remarks

Learning from Lockdown: Language, Mental Health & Commemoration after Covid