Registration for the interdisciplinary symposium Processing the Pandemic III: Hope is now open.
Both days of the event will be fully hybrid, taking place simultaneously at the University of Warwick and online.
This event is the final phase of Processing the Pandemic: a multi-year series of seminars and symposia that explore how the experiences of the past may guide society’s emotional and social responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The series asks how we—as an open community of scholars, teachers, archivists, social workers, and practitioners—might learn from these experiences and from each other in transformative, inspiring, transdisciplinary ways. How can such dialogues reframe existing discussions around the history of emotions, our responses to trauma, and how we navigate from loss to hope? Moreover, how can the study of peoples’ responses to traumatic events in the past and present help guide our own experience of the pandemic and its unfolding future?
Following our first in-person symposium on LossLink opens in a new window at the Newberry Library in April 2022, and a series of virtual seminars—1: Lord Have Mercy - Popular Print and Communal Loss (Sperry & Totaro)Link opens in a new window; 2: Mexican Futures in a Post-Pandemic World (Hughes);Link opens in a new window 3:Scholarship as Hope (Otaño Gracia and HernandezLink opens in a new window)—we are now concluding our discussions around the theme of Hope as we attempt to trace new pathways to answer the question of how communities in both the past and present move from Loss to Hope, navigating the complex constellations of emotions that result from such crises.
The series is co-organised by Bryan Brazeau (Liberal Arts, Warwick), Christopher Fletcher (Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry), and Rose Miron (Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Newberry). This event is made possible due to generous support from the School for Cross-Faculty Studies, The Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, and The Humanities Research Centre at Warwick, along with support from the Center for Renaissance Studies and the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library (Chicago, USA).
The full programme is available below. Please click here to registerLink opens in a new window.
Online links and room information will be sent to participants several days before the conference. Should you have any questions, please contact Bryan Brazeau at B.Brazeau@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 13th April, 2023
12:15-12:30 p.m. — Welcoming Remarks
- Bryan Brazeau (The University of Warwick, UK)
- Christopher Fletcher (The Newberry Library, USA)
- Rose Miron (The Newberry Library, USA)
12:30-1:30 p.m. —
Keynote Lecture I: “Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature”
- William Franke (Vanderbilt, USA)
1:45-3:30 p.m. — Pedagogies of Hope
- “The Future is Green: Processing Hard Emotions to find Hope”
- Bruno Grazioli (Dickinson College, Italy)
- “Remembering Covid in Teams? Troubling care and affective unravelling”
- Cathy Wade and Lisa Metherell (Birmingham City University, UK)
- “Resilient Stillness – a Performative-Based Workshop”
- Brittney S. Harris (Old Dominion, USA)
4-5 p.m. — Looking Back / Looking Forwards
- Roundtable Reflection with Participants from Previous Events and Workshops in the Series
- Dolores Bigfoot (University of Oklahoma, USA)
- Angelica Duran (Purdue, USA)
- Tara Bynum (U. of Iowa, USA)
- Jennifer Scheper Hughes (University of California, Riverside, USA)
- Cathy Caruth (Cornell University, USA)
5:30 p.m. — Reception sponsored by
Warwick Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
Friday, 14th April, 2023
From Trauma to Hope in Past and Present
9:30–11:00 a.m. — Roundtable I: Legacies of Trauma, Legacies of Hope
- “Making Sense of Traumatic Times: Resiliency, Reason, and Hope in Women’s Trans -Historical Writings”
- Joanne Wright (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
- “On the Road to Bliss: The Triumph of Hope in Prints and Moral Philosophy as a Cure for Religious Conflicts in the Borderlands of the Hapsburg Empire (1526-1662)”
- Maria Vittoria Spissu (University of Bologna, Italy / The Newberry Library, Chicago)
- “Crusading Ghosts and Ambiguous Hopes in Times of Trauma”
- Thomas Herron (East Carolina University, USA)
- Anne-Hélène Miller (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. — Creative Workshop
- “All Shall Be Well: Finding Modern and Medieval Hope Inside a Pandemic Bubble”
- Kathy Greenholdt (Songwriter, Chicago, USA)
New Pathways for Hope: Indigenous and Postcolonial Subjectivities
1:30-2:30 p.m. —
Keynote Lecture II: “Hope Through the Lens of Indigenous Futurity"
- Blaire Morseau (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)
2:30–3:45 p.m. —
Roundtable II: Native American and Indigenous Experiences:
Past, Present, and Future
- Rose Miron (D’Arcy McNickle Centre for Native American and Indigenous Studies, Newberry Library, USA)
- Alexandra Lamiña (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
- Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (After the Whirlwind (ATW) Research and Consulting, USA)
- Alika Bourgette (University of Washington, USA)
4-5 p.m. — Keynote Lecture III: "Hope Against Hope"
- Jesse McCarthy (Harvard University, USA)
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. — Conclusions and closing remarks