Resource Listing
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‘I Have to Live with the Tragedy’: Memorials Remembering 215 Indigenous Children Found Buried at Residential School
Discussions of memorials commemorating the 215 Indigenous children found at a residential school.
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As London Honors Covid-19 Victims and Key Workers with a Blossom Garden, Experts Consider the Power of Memorials
Discussion of the London memorial garden for victims of COVID-19 and the artists who created it.
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Biden Participates In Memorial To Remember Covid-19 Victims | NBC News
Joe Biden given memorial speech.
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Brazil’s Infinity Memorial commemorates COVID-19 victims
Brazil has constructed a monument to those lost to COVID-19.
Canada Honours Those Who Died of COVID-19 a Year After Pandemic Declared Social Sharing
Prime Minister Trudeau's speech to the House of Commons about losses experienced by Canadians.
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COVID Memorial
"The COVID Memorial is a place to share remembrances of loved ones lost to the coronavirus pandemic, and to encourage public health measures that can prevent more deaths in the future."
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COVID Memorials are Needed Now and for the Future
Explanation of how public memorials remind people that deaths mean something and how they can help our communities heal.
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COVID-19 Memorial Blanket
Blanket created from squares sent in by knitters across the globe, with each square representing a person who passed from COVID-19.
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Covid: Memorial Woodland to Remember Virus Victims
Plans for a natural memorial in Britain to commemorate those lost to the pandemic.
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Disability Day of Mourning: Online Vigils Remember Those Killed by Caregivers
Discussion of how vigils, tributes, and memorials have been carried out online for the Disability Day of Mourning under pandemic restrictions.
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Forever Missed: Remembering Victims of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic.
Online memorials to those lost to COVID-19.
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Giving Hope, and a Place to Mourn: Memorials to the Pandemic
Examples of public memorials created for coronavirus victims.
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Hamilton Muslim Youth Plan to Commemorate London, Ont., Victims
Muslim youth discuss the memorial they plan to hold for London murder victims.
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Hardly Any 1918 Flu Memorials Exist. Will We Remember COVID-19 Differently?
Discussion of how past pandemics, specifically the 1918 flu, have been forgotten and how we can ensure that COVID-19 is not.
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Honoring the Caregivers We’ve Lost: COVID-19 Memorial
Memorial video for caregivers who lost their lives to COVID-19.
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How Do You Mourn a Pandemic? See How Artists Around the World Are Building Monuments to Those Who Died of COVID-19
"As the world continues to battle the spread of disease, artists and architects are helping memorialize those we lost."
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How Will the Future Remember COVID-19?
Article includes three visions for COVID-19 memorials through art and monuments.
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How Will We Remember This? A COVID Memorial Will Have to Commemorate Shame and Failure as Well as Grief and Bravery.
Article discusses how memorials of COVID-19 need to account for the political context in which the pandemic occurred.
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Interview with James E. Young
Interview with James E. Young, a memory/memorial expert. *Not COVID specific
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Judith Butler: Mourning Is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities
Judith Butler shares thoughts on the political aspects of mourning.
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Lantern Parade to be Held in Milton Keynes in Remembrance of Hundreds Who Lost Their Lives to Covid
Information about a memorial that will be held for those lost to COVID-19.
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Memorial Poems and the Poetics of Memorializing
Article discussing how poems have been integrated into war memorials and the impact of poetry on public/collective grief. *Not COVID specific
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Memorialization and COVID-19
"Communities across the world have begun recording COVID-19 narratives for future memorialization efforts and commemorating those who have perished from the virus through online memorials. It is time to pair their efforts with national ones. Here, the author explains how."
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Memorials in Robert Lowell’s Poetry: The Synthesis of the Public and the Private
Exploration of the work of Robert Lowell, a poet whose work appears on public monuments. *Not COVID specific
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Memorials to COVID-19 Must Hold Space for Grief and Accountability
Discussion of the importance of public memorials and COVID-specific considerations such as "socioeconomic and racial disparities in mortality and healthcare, deep-seated anti-Asian racism, and the economic toll on women and their labor, among other alarming revelations." Examples of memorials (art).
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Memory and Counter-Memory
Article about German artist Horst Hoheisel and their work memorializing people of Jewish descent in Europe through "carv[ing] out an empty space in Berlin by which to recall a now-absent people". *Not COVID-specific
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Mourning and Memory in the Age of COVID-19
"Although there have been significant grassroots efforts to memorialize the tremendous losses that the United States has sustained during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been no coordinated national commemoration, no single place or moment that has channeled public grief in a genuinely collective manner. While acknowledging the political dynamics at play, I also go beyond them to consider the challenges that COVID-19 poses for meaning-making: how it creates obstacles to both ritual and narrativization."
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Online Memorial to COVID-19 Victims Going Live on January 30
An online memorial to people who have died from COVID-19 is being created.
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Paying Tribute to Deceased School Community Members
Resource for school personnel on constructing memorials to deceased members of the school community as well as individual memorial activities. *Not COVID specific
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Remembering COVID-19
This article outlines the dangers of forgetting COVID-19 and the likelihood that it will happen- explores strategies to ensure that losses are not forgotten.
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Selfless Sacrifice or Failed by the State? Remembering Nurses who Have Died from Covid-19
Article discusses public monuments and mourning events for nurses who have died from COVID-19.