Today, we have a wonderful new dispatch piece, curated by Rituals' very own Martha Greenwald, where two vaccination site volunteers in Louisville, Kentucky, Juli Duvall and Michael McWilliams, share their perspectives in honor of the 4-year anniversary.

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Good news! For everyone who missed our Public Lecture event, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, a recording of the event is now available on the C-SPAN website! Thank you again to C-SPAN for broadcasting the event, and we hope you all will take the time to watch.

Link: www.c-span.org/program/publ...

4.02.25

As we said the other day: March is over, but our work is not.

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3.30.25

For the final installment of our March series, we have a wonderful dispatch by Sarah Wagner, about our dear friends at @ramis_heart, and their 5th Year Annual Lighting Ceremony, which the RIM team attended on March 15th. Please give it a read!

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3.30.25

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3.26.25

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Thank you to all who attended (and spoke at) our public lecture event by Sheryl Stolberg on March 19th, including Dean Lynn Goldman, Dr. Holden Thorpe, Avery Nennman, Paige Gavin, and Hanaan Khabir, as well as C-SPAN for live coverage of the event! It would not have been as successful without you!

Happy Friday! Two members of the Rituals in the Making team, Hanaan Khabir and Avery Nennmann, collaborated on a wonderful new dispatch piece, which is now available on our website!

Enjoy!

Link:
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Join us, with the GW Anthropology department, at the Elliot School of International Affairs TODAY at 5:30 PM, for Sheryl Gay Stolberg's public lecture, "Contagion of Mistrust: Jonas Salk, Tony Fauci, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Partisan Backlash Against Public Health."

We hope to see you there!

3.11.25

Join the COVID-19 Wall of Memories today at 2 p.m. CT for a panel on memorialization, live-streamed on Facebook. The link will be available below and on our story. We hope to see you there!

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Link: fb.com/covid19wallofmemories

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3.9.25

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3.7.25

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Day 3: Excerpt from “A Present Absence” by Roy. R. Grinker. Visit our website, buff.ly/bUzWNuI, to read this dispatch and many other examples of our research.

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Day 2

Throughout March, “Rituals in the Making” will be noting resonant and notable
moments from the past five years. We will be digging into our research and writing
as well as the work of other organizations, projects, and individuals.