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Alden Scholar Series: Chronicling a Crisis: SUNY Oneonta’s Pandemic Diaries

by Sophia Dunne on 2024-10-09T10:16:31-04:00 in History, History: American History | 0 Comments

 

                                                          poster of the event Chronicling a crisis:SUNY Oneonta's Pandemic Diaries show in text to the left of an image of a covid virus and a woman sitting and reading

  

Mark your calendars for a special evening! On October 23rd at 6 p.m., we invite you to join the Alden Scholar Series Lecture, featuring a distinguished panel of speakers: Ann Traitor and Matthew Hendley from the Department of History, Darren Chase, the Dean of the Library, and Ed Beck, an Instructional Designer from the Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship.  

This event will highlight the launch of their new book, Chronicling a Crisis: SUNY Oneonta’s Pandemic Diaries, recently published by SUNY Press (2023). The book compiles over 200 blog entries contributed by students, faculty, and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering reflections, poems, images, and thought pieces. It is an honest portrayal of the community's experiences through grief, frustration, resilience, and adaptation during a pivotal time in history. The event will be followed by a Q and A session and a reception in Milne 318.  

The event is eligible for LEAD credit and will be hybrid, accessible through this Teams link, the QR code on the above poster, or in-person in the Alden Room, found on the third floor of the Milne Library (Milne 300). In-person attendees who are not associated with SUNY Oneonta can obtain a visitor parking pass from University Police for the day of the event. The event is open to the whole community, all are welcome! 

The Alden Scholar Series, established in 2012, is a collaboration between SUNY Oneonta’s History Department and Milne Library. This event is designed to honor faculty members who have recently published scholarly books or completed significant research projects.  

Interested in joining the Alden Scholar Committee? 

If you’re passionate about promoting academic scholarship and would like to get involved, please reach out to Matthew Hendley at matthew.hendley@oneonta.edu for more information. 

About the book:

Cover ArtChronicling a Crisis by Ed Beck (Editor); Darren D. Chase (Editor); Matthew Hendley (Editor); Ann A. Traitor (Editor)
ISBN: 1438495315
Publication Date: 2023-11-01
Chronicling a Crisis is a powerful primary source collection compiled during the peak of the COVID pandemic between spring 2020 and spring 2021. This upstate New York college was the only school in the state that had to send home all its students twice due to COVID, which attracted international media attention. This book was inspired by the UK's Mass Observation Project from the 1930s, which drew on the war-time diaries of ordinary British citizens to track the impact of World War II on their lives. With over two hundred blog entries from students, faculty, and staff--including diary reflections, poems, pictures, and thought pieces--this volume lays bare the grief, frustration, fear, resilience, and upheavals of this tumultuous period. This book will be of interest for students of New York history, American history and the digital humanities as well as general readers interested in understanding the impact of the COVID pandemic on universities and their students. This book is freely available in an open access edition. It can be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/13052.

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