CALL FOR PAPERS: ONLINE SYMPOSIUM ON COVID- 19

Symposium Dates: 4 and 5 April 2022

Submission Deadline: 4 March 2022

This symposium is an invitation to postgraduate scholars, researchers, academics, and

policymakers to share questions experiences and to discuss pandemic effects on

social, personal, and scholarly lives. The symposium will also offer a space to reflect on

what it has meant to conduct research during a pandemic.


The symposium will host discussions on the following themes:

Coping with the uncertainties of life during the Covid-19 pandemic; collective forms of

organisation and livelihoods

􀂋 Government responses to the pandemic and its impact on vulnerable communities through

the various levels of lockdown

􀂋 Socio-cultural expression and rituals in the everyday and mundane, the sacred and

transcendent

􀂋 Illness experiences, subjectivities, and living with the chronicity of long Covid

􀂋 Healthcare workers and healthcare institutions, insiders, responding to the pandemic

􀂋 Researching social life amidst a pandemic: shortfalls and new possibilities of knowing

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

Please submit a 300-word abstract by email outlining your challenge or idea to be considered for the event. Selections will be based on the idea’s merit and connection to the event’s themes.


ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS MUST BE MADE BY 1700 GMT 4 MARCH 2022.

Selections will be made by 11 March 2022. Enquiries: Covid-19.HealthSociology@wits.ac.za

FULL SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT:

http://www.wits.ac.za/sociology/covid19-symposium/

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