Acknowledging the vast diversity of migratory trajectories around the world, I see important commonalities in the experience of what I…
Death interrupted: Mourning across borders in the wake of Covid-19
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The commemorative state, human remains, and the question of missing-ness
We have sought to understand the practices of return and reburial through the concept of forensic history. Here, and influenced…
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
This forum initiates a conversation on the meaning and consequences of death across societies and time periods, drawing together scholars…
Pandemics and the meaning of Black religion
What language and frameworks do we draw upon to name the impact of the violent conflation of global state-sanctioned antiblack…
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
This forum explores the white American ritual of Black death. It also ruminates on how scholars of religion reckon with…
A wedding in a cemetery: Judaism, terror, and pandemic
American Jews have no scapegoats or sacrificial lambs to offer in response to Covid-19 nor desire to hold a shvartze…
Material mourning in the secular sculpture garden
The memorialization of Soviet soldiers in Berlin was not simply a functional political tactic; it was an expression of national…