Rituals in the Making

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 on their participation, in honor of the 4-year anniversary.

The dispatch is available on our website. Please give it a read!

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Link: https://ritualsinthemaking.com/2025/04/17/louvax-four-years-later/

Good news! For everyone who missed our Public Lecture event, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Health Policy Journalist for the New York Times, or simply would like the chance to rewatch, 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 the lecture.
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Link: https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/impact-of-covid-19-pandemic-on-us-health-care-and-mistrust/657590

4.02.25

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

3.30.25

For the final installment of our March series, we have a wonderful dispatch written by Sarah Wagner, about our dear friends at , and their 5th Year Annual Lighting Ceremony, which the RIM team attended a few weeks back.

Give it a read using the link below. Thank you!

https://ritualsinthemaking.com/2025/03/31/the-work-of-remembrance-5-years-on-ramis-heart-5th-annual-lighting-ceremony/

3.30.25

Thank you to all who attended our co-sponsored, by the GW Anthropology department, public lecture event, "Contagion of Mistrust: Jonas Salk, Tony Fauci, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Partisan Backlash Against Public Health" by Sheryl Stolberg, last Wednesday, March 19th! It was an incredibly insightful talk, and the RIM team hopes you all enjoyed it.

A special thanks to all of our other speakers and moderators, 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. This event would not have been as successful without you all!

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!

The dispatch, titled "Vignettes of Time: Reflections on the Week COVID Came to Be with Hanaan and Avery," is a reflection piece dedicated to the 5-year anniversary of the pandemic, where they share significant moments of their lives during the pandemic, and where they are now.

Enjoy!

Link:
https://ritualsinthemaking.com/2025/03/14/vignettes-of-time-reflections-on-the-week-covid-came-to-be-with-hanaan-and-avery/

Join the Rituals in the Making team, in partnership with the GW Anthropology department, at the Elliot School of Internation 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."

The lecture will also be available to stream on C-SPAN. 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

3.9.25

On March 6th, 2025, the Rituals in the Making team had the honor of attending the Covid-19 commemorative ceremony in Frankfort, Kentucky, where they had the pleasure of meeting Governor Andy Beshear. Thank you to Avery Nennmann for the photos of the wonderful event!

Members of our Rituals in the Making team were honored to be present for the commemorative ceremony at the Rotunda in Frankfort. Governor Beshear reflected on the importance of remembering the 20,000+ souls lost in the Commonwealth while also emphasizing the efforts of first responders, health care professionals, and the everyday sacrifices everyone made in the effort to keep each other safe.

“COVID’s long shadow touched all of our lives ... you don’t suffer that level of loss and not feel it deeply.”
-- Governor Andy Beshear 3.6.25