CALL FOR PAPERS AND CREATIVE RESPONSES

Friday 9th July, 2021

By Stay Home Stories

 HOME AND COVID-19:Dwelling and belonging in pandemic times A two-day symposium, 24 - 25 November 2021The Museum of the Home, London, and online CALL FOR PAPERS AND CREATIVE RESPONSESHow has home changed during the COVID-19 pandemic? How have people experienced home in different and unequal ways? How could home change for the better in a post-pandemic future?Researchers, artists, curators, community workers, faith leaders and others are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute papers on, and creative responses to, Home and COVID-19 for a two-day symposium at the Museum of the Home, London.  We welcome proposals that consider home in different places and contexts, and in a multiplicity of ways, including: domestic spaces and practices; home and belonging in relation to the neighbourhood, city, nation and/or diaspora; home, dwelling and (im)mobility; home as embodied, sensory, emotional and material; and home as a site of inclusion, exclusion and inequality.  The symposium is convened by the Stay Home Stories project (@stayhomestories), funded by the AHRC as part of the UKRI rapid response to COVID-19. The event will include the opportunity to view artist Alaa Alsaraji’s room installation on Home and COVID-19 and material collected as part of the Museum’s Stay Home rapid response collecting project.Proposals are invited on any aspect of Home and COVID-19. We welcome paper proposals and creative responses in a variety of forms. Some sessions will focus on key themes addressed by the Stay Home Stories project, including:   The politics of homeHome, migration and ethnicityHome, religion and interfaith workHome, children and young peopleCreative and curatorial practiceHome, connection and disconnectionPlease submit proposals of up to 200 words and biographies of up to 100 words by 17 September 2021 to Dr Miri Lawrence (m.lawrence@qmul.ac.uk). The programme will be confirmed in early October.   


 

HOME AND COVID-19:

Dwelling and belonging in pandemic times

A two-day symposium, 24 - 25 November 2021

The Museum of the Home, London, and online 

CALL FOR PAPERS AND CREATIVE RESPONSES

How has home changed during the COVID-19 pandemic? 

How have people experienced home in different and unequal ways? 

How could home change for the better in a post-pandemic future?

Researchers, artists, curators, community workers, faith leaders and others are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute papers on, and creative responses to, Home and COVID-19 for a two-day symposium at the Museum of the Home, London. 

We welcome proposals that consider home in different places and contexts, and in a multiplicity of ways, including: domestic spaces and practices; home and belonging in relation to the neighbourhood, city, nation and/or diaspora; home, dwelling and (im)mobility; home as embodied, sensory, emotional and material; and home as a site of inclusion, exclusion and inequality.  

The symposium is convened by the Stay Home Stories project (@stayhomestories), funded by the AHRC as part of the UKRI rapid response to COVID-19. The event will include the opportunity to view artist Alaa Alsaraji’s room installation on Home and COVID-19 and material collected as part of the Museum’s Stay Home rapid response collecting project.

Proposals are invited on any aspect of Home and COVID-19. We welcome paper proposals and creative responses in a variety of forms. Some sessions will focus on key themes addressed by the Stay Home Stories project, including:  

  • The politics of home

  • Home, migration and ethnicity

  • Home, religion and interfaith work

  • Home, children and young people

  • Creative and curatorial practice

  • Home, connection and disconnection

Please submit proposals of up to 200 words and biographies of up to 100 words by 17 September 2021 to Dr Miri Lawrence (m.lawrence@qmul.ac.uk). The programme will be confirmed in early October.