Abstracts Archive

On 23 March 2021 the United Kingdom marked its first 'National Day of Reflection' on the Covid-19 pandemic. Originally petitioned for by the Marie Curie charity, the event was ultimately endorsed by government amidst a wider backdrop of plans for other memorialisation sites and activities gaining mo...

The memory of the 16 October 1943-roundup and deportation of more than one thousand Jews in Rome still provides an open wound among the Jewish families and is cause of distress in sensible Christian contexts, mainly the ones involved in the inter-religious dialogue.An original and emotional way to k...

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This paper draws on Andrew Hoskins' concept of the connective turn and Astrid Erll's notion of new media ecologies in memory which examine remembering as a distributive activity entangled with minds and machines, affects and materials. This paper extends those concepts and map...

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The year 2020 with an outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic put unprecedented challenges to all forms of travelling, including religious tourism and pilgrimages. Particularly, the Hasidic pilgrimages to numerous graves of their spiritual leaders in Poland and Ukraine were cancelled for the danger of spreadi...

Rumors thrive in authoritarian contexts. The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an explosion of new rumors regarding sources of infection (e.g., travelers, migrants, and returning migrants), forms of treatment (e.g., hydroxychloroquine), access to care (e.g., being turned away, jumping the line), and t...