Antropologicheskij forum, 2022, no. 52

FORUM: THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AND COVID-19: PROS AND CONS

Andrey Adelfinskiy

The Bauman Moscow State Technical University
5 2nd Baumanskaya Str., Moscow, Russia
adelfi()mail.ru

Julia Butschatskaja

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
julia.butschatskaja()yahoo.de

Victoria Donovan

University of St Andrews
United Colleges, St Andrews, UK
vsd2()st-andrews.ac.uk

Abigail Karas

University of Oxford
41 & 47 Wellington Sq., Oxford, UK
abigail.karas()univ.ox.ac.uk

Catriona Kelly

Trinity College
Cambridge, UK
ck616()cam.ac.uk

Anna Lazareva

Independent researcher
Moscow, Russia
anna-kadabra()mail.ru

Lee Ji Eun

Organization World Heritage Cities Asia-Pacific Secretariat
614 Gyeongamro Str., Gyeonju, Gyeongbuk, Korea
jieunjohanna()naver.com

Darya Litvina

European University at St Petersburg
6/1A Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
litvina.darya()gmail.com

Alexandra Piir

European University at St Petersburg
6/1A Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
alexandra.piir()gmail.com

Anna Temkina

European University at St Petersburg
6/1A Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
temkina()eu.spb.ru

Nikolai Vakhtin

European University at St Petersburg
6/1A Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
nvakhtin()gmail.com

Evgeniy Vdovchenkov

Southern Federal University
105/42 B. Sadovaya Str., Rostov-on-Don, Russia
evvdovchenkov()sfedu.ru

Maria Vyatchina

Tartu University
18 Ülikooli Str., Tartu, Estonia
maria.vyatchina()gmail.com

Abstract: For the past two years, research groups and universities have been exposed to the novel and unpredictable conditions of life during the viral pandemic, and to the constantly shifting restrictions on normal academic activities that have accompanied it. In particular, personal contacts—between teachers and students and between colleagues—have to a large extent been difficult or impossible. For some, the social restrictions have been a disaster, while others have found them to be an insignificant nuisance, or even welcome. Participants of the “Forum” discuss, how the pandemic has affected their own (work) situation and the situation at their home institution, whether the enforced (self-)isolation has created any new types of working practices or social relations that are desirable to persist in the future, and whether the humanities and social sciences have evolved any new research questions and topics that directly derive from the pandemic, the social restrictions associated with it, and efforts to fight its effects.

Keywords: Humanities, Social Sciences, pandemic, Covid-19.

To cite: ‘Forum: Sotsialnye nauki i COVID-19: pro et contra’ [Forum: The Humanities and Social Sciences and Covid-19: Pros and Cons], Antropologicheskij forum, 2022, no. 52, pp. 11–82.

doi: 10.31250/1815-8870-2022-18-52-11-82

URL: https://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/052/forum.pdf