Cross-Cultural Australian Perspectives on the Pandemic
Many Aboriginal communities in Australia had been closed to outsiders before a pandemic was called…
Funerary Rites: How we Mourn and Bury our Dead During a Pandemic
Funerals, burials and communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history…
How COVID-19 is Changing our Relationship with Money
Despite scientific evidence that currency does not transmit COVID-19, there is wariness around the use of cash…
The Politics of Habits and Citizenship During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Government attempts to control the spread of COVID-19 have changed personal hygiene from mundane habits to essential acts…
A Change of Space: How COVID-19 Affects Personal Space
COVID-19 presents us with a way of cultivating awareness around physical distancing and personal space…
The Medicine of Belief: Health from the Viking Age and Onwards
Before the existence of germ theory, people in the past found different explanations to understand death and disease…
Curation and the Coronavirus: Collecting Pandemic Artifacts (Q&A)
Culturally Modified interviews Royal Alberta Museum curator Pat Myers about collecting items in a pandemic…
Breathe. Collective: Traditional Artists on Pandemic Masks
For many Indigenous people in North America, the COVID-19 pandemic has carried echoes of a not-so-distant past…
America Unraveling: Wade Davis and America’s Undoing
Wade Davis suggests that COVID-19 pandemic signals the beginning of the end of the American empire…
