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Sensory history and the pandemic

Title (Dublin Core)

Sensory history and the pandemic

Description (Dublin Core)

I've been thinking about sensory history and how often it's left out of historical records. We often don't stop to comment on observations we make every day like noise of a busy street corner or the smell of muffins baking in the kitchen. I'm teaching HST643 Global history during Fall B with a module on sensory history. I'd like to ask students to add a perspective on the sensory history of the pandemic. I posted this thought in the JOTPY Slack workspace and Shanna replied with a really interesting observation about sound: “…there is an odd tension of noise inside my home and silence the second I step outside. I find myself needing a quiet space when I’m in my house. Yet the second I walk outside, it’s way too quiet that I start to feel uncomfortably lonely and in need of human connection.”

Date (Dublin Core)

August 20, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Katy Kole de Peralta

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Katy Kole de Peralta

Type (Dublin Core)

Screenshot

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--Universities
English Emotion
English Environment & Landscape
English Home & Family Life

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

noise
outside
inside
graduate school

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

sound
sensory history
shelter-in-place
quiet
Shanna Gagnon
Clinton Roberts

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Environment

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Maya Peralta, age 5, talks through the fence to her neighbor and classmate from Scales Technology Academy about Coronavirus.
Kathleen Kole de Peralta Biography Sheet

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/25/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

09/01/2020
06/21/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

08/20/2020

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Covid 19

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This item was submitted on August 25, 2020 by Katy Kole de Peralta using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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