Category: Coping with COVID-19

  • I don't know how and when the pandemic will end, but we can be reasonably confident it will end. And in this not-too-distant future, we can ask: how will we do conferencing and seminars post-pandemic? Our present way of doing things (well, pre-2020) burns a lot of fossil fuels. An international flight, e.g., from London…

  • In our October "how can we help you?" thread, a reader writes: I'm curious whether and how everyone on the market is changing their teaching statements to fit the new realities of teaching. Teaching right now has required significant changes in techniques for most, if not all of us. For example, I'm teaching hybrid, socially…

  • A few weeks ago, I came across this article on social media, 'Acedia: the lost name for the emotion we’re all feeling right now'. Given that the article seemed to be 'making the rounds', I assume some of you probably came across it too, and I'm wondering whether it spoke to others the way it…

  • Now that many of us are a month or so into fall semester courses, and have been teaching in new formats due to the pandemic, I thought it might be good to have a thread checking in with readers to see how things are going. What format(s) are you teaching in? What things are you…