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\u201cWe are facing so much uncertainty and feeling suffocated and trapped in an amalgam of information, feelings, anxieties, and hopes. We hope it all passes soon. We hope that we do not infect ourselves and our loved ones with the virus. We hope that everything will return to normal. We hope that our leaders can show solidarity with the population and act in our favor. We hope that people don\u2019t starve to death without any financial aid.\u201d So begins the essay Reflex\u00f5es em um dia frio <\/em>(Thoughts on a cold day), authored by Patricia Fabiana Crosara, from Ribeir\u00e3o Preto, S\u00e3o Paulo. It can be found on the #Mem\u00f3riasCovid19 platform, developed by the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). \u201cIt is an online archive whose aim is to collect, identify, process, and spread different views on the pandemic,\u201d explains historian Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim Maciel, from the Multimedia Graduate Program at the institution\u2014and the one behind the effort. \u201cThe idea is to put together a digital \u2018archaeology\u2019 of this experience beyond data and numbers, guided by individual emotions and perceptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Launched last year, the bilingual (English and Portuguese) platform, developed as part of a thematic project funded by FAPESP, has received 294 stories so far\u2014not only in the form of poetry or non-fiction, but also photographs, drawings, audio files, and videos from several Brazilian regions and from countries such as France, Ecuador, and Canada. Hand-selected by a team of nine curators from different fields of knowledge, such as anthropology, visual arts, and history, about 180 such works are available on the site. According to Maciel, the overall goal is to ensure that the accounts posted on the platform reflect a diversity of experiences and media. \u201cAnyone can participate: there is no restriction of age, education, or profession,\u201d says the historian. Nonetheless, she notes most participants tend to be women (55%) and students (41.6%). The platform, which is still accepting submissions, also embraces several different interests. \u201cSome use the platform as a place to vent and share how they are dealing with the anguish of isolation, the pain of grief, or even abuse, since the rates of domestic violence have grown significantly during the pandemic. The stories can be submitted anonymously. Others use the platform to express political opinions or share artistic works,\u201d says Maciel.<\/p>\n

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\u2002#Mem\u00f3riasCovid19 platform<\/span><\/a> A photo by Guarabira Gra\u00e7a Dias, a resident of Natal (Rio Grande do Norte), is part of the personal project Solid\u00e3o compartilhada<\/em> (Shared loneliness) and can be found on the platform\u2002#Mem\u00f3riasCovid19 platform<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

According to historian Katia Couto, from the Department of History at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM)and one of the curators of the platform, the contents of the site span several historical moments. \u201cIt serves to both connect individuals during the pandemic and to create a collective space of remembrance, which can contribute to future research,\u201d she points out. Author Daniel Munduruku, who is also a curator of the platform, adds: \u201cAlthough these are not official records, produced by the government, I believe they are much more powerful, as they record the feelings of ordinary people who are suffering the consequences of the pandemic in their daily lives. These records help remind us who we are, what we experience, and what we do in this world. They are being created in the present moment and give us the strength to overcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a report released last August on the blog of the International Federation of Public History (IFPH), about 500 similar initiatives are being developed around the world, gathering personal accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight of them have been taking place in Brazil, such as the project Testemunhos do Isolamento (Lockdown Testimonies), developed by the General Archive of the City of Rio de Janeiro (AGCRJ) and inspired by international experiments, such as those of the Association of Public Historians of New York and the Barcelona City Archive. \u201cThese are records produced in real time during this traumatic global event,\u201d notes Maciel, who is currently compiling a book including part of the accounts submitted to the #Mem\u00f3riasCovid19 project. \u201cEven though it may not be interactive like the digital platform, a book is a permanent record. We are already thinking about how to save this online content gathered in the platform, considering the rapid pace in which technology evolves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Historian Ricardo dos Santos Batista, from the Graduate History Program at Bahia State University (UNEB), believes the interconnected nature of the world impacts the role of contemporary historians. \u201cHistorians can no longer be intellectuals who take refuge in documentary archives, and COVID-19 has made this clear. The pandemic has brought the need to revisit stories about epidemics to illuminate the present and question fake news, as well as to understand our present story, which can be known through reports made by various media outlets, such as newspapers, websites, and social media,\u201d according to Batista, author of an article on the subject published in the book Sobre a pandemia: Experi\u00eancias, tempos e reflex\u00f5es<\/em> (On the pandemic: Experiences, times, and reflections) (Hucitec publishing house, 2021). This view, he says, exists alongside the concept of public history, which emerged in the United States in the 1970s: \u201cPublic history recognizes that historians are not the only ones to build and disseminate history. Individuals can learn history in their family relationships, in school, and through the media, for example.\u201d<\/p>\n

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#Mem\u00f3riasCovid19 platform<\/span><\/a> A drawing by Eduarda Prado, from Fortaleza (Cear\u00e1), submitted to the platform. The artist claims she was inspired by the novel Eu me chamo Ant\u00f4nio<\/em> (My name is Ant\u00f4nio) by Pedro Gabriel (Intr\u00ednseca, 2013)#Mem\u00f3riasCovid19 platform<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Although the Internet has boosted the spread of real-time accounts, the need to record personal experiences during collective trauma, such as wars and health crises, is nothing new. \u201cAt the beginning of the last century, loss, fear and anxiety were generally shared in a restricted and private manner,\u201d explains Batista. During his post-doctoral research at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo School of Preventive Medicine (USP), he is investigating the yellow fever outbreak in Bahia and the work of the laboratory established in Salvador by the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1920s. \u201cDuring my research, I found diaries where the scientists recorded their daily challenges and conflicts,\u201d shares Batista. \u201cThe volumes of personal records we have from that time is infinitely smaller in comparison to today’s fast-paced and information-heavy world. It remains to be seen how we historians will cope with this gigantic volume of accounts produced during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

For about a year now, psychoanalyst Paulo Cesar Endo, from the USP Institute of Psychology (IP), has been developing\u2014alongside six other researchers\u2014the \u201cInventory of dreams 2 \u2013 Pandemic dreams,\u201d part of a research project funded by FAPESP. Since March 2020, the survey has gathered 1,200 reports of pandemic-related dreams, always in text form, which are to be published anonymously on the Museu da Pessoa (People\u2019s Museum) website. \u201cThe idea is not to interpret these dreams, since, according to Freud, dreams are best interpreted by the dreamer,\u201d explains Endo. \u201cThe goal of the archive is to gather creative ways of thinking about this challenging experience we are facing and show how dreams can broaden our perception of the present, as well as to create an unprecedented database accessible to anyone interested in studying the context of the pandemic. Dreams are like seismographs of the present, as defined by journalist Charlotte Beradt, author of the book The Third Reich of Dreams<\/em> (published by Tr\u00eas Estrelas, 2017).\u201d Another goal of the project is to show that each individual is unique, with his or her own memories, dreams, and expectations. \u201cDeath cannot be trivialized. When an individual dies, they take with them their own personal and irreplaceable repository of meanings,\u201d notes the psychoanalyst.<\/p>\n

Due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, death has become lonelier. Without its rituals, goodbyes have been incomplete and dramatic, says the researcher. \u201cThe pandemic has been leaving a trail of loss, mourning without closure, and empty longing. We are experiencing an immeasurable amount of very damaging and potentially highly traumatic processes in our lives,\u201d he points out. Grief is a fundamental aspect of managing significant loss, confirms psychologist Maria J\u00falia Kov\u00e1cs, from IP-USP and founder of the Death Studies Laboratory (LEM) at the same institution. \u201cAnd we are not speaking merely of the death of loved ones. Circumstances that disrupt our daily lives, such as illness, unemployment, or moving to a different country can also cause great psychological suffering,\u201d she observes. At such times, recording one’s own memories, dreams, and experiences can be a way of processing them. \u201cExercising the imagination through writing has never been more important,\u201d concludes Endo.<\/p>\n

Projects<\/strong>
\n1.<\/strong> Collect, identify, process, distribute: The curatorial cycle and the production of knowledge (n\u00ba 17\/07366-1<\/a>); Grant Mechanism<\/strong> Thematic Project; Principal Investigator<\/strong> Ana Gon\u00e7alves Magalh\u00e3es; Investment<\/strong> R$3,598,403.24.
\n2.<\/strong> Dreaming about trauma, surviving catastrophes, overcoming disappearance: A comparative study of the dreams of former Auschwitz prisoners and those of victims of forced disappearance during the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil (n\u00ba 19\/10946-5<\/a>); Grant Mechanism<\/strong> Regular Research Grant; Principal Investigator<\/strong> Paulo Cesar Endo; Investment<\/strong> R$95,044.34.<\/p>\n

Book<\/strong>
\nMOTA, A. (ed.) Sobre a pandemia: Experi\u00eancias, tempos & reflex\u00f5es. S\u00e3o Paulo: Hucitec<\/strong>, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Academic initiatives are collecting personal accounts of memories and mourning experienced during the pandemic","protected":false},"author":689,"featured_media":400707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3674,165],"tags":[201,241,257,261,204],"coauthors":[3453],"class_list":["post-397818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19-en","category-humanities","tag-anthropology","tag-history","tag-psychology","tag-sociology","tag-visual-arts","keywords-coronavirus-en","keywords-covid-19-en","keywords-sars-cov-2-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401209,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397818\/revisions\/401209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397818"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=397818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}