The objective of this scientific meeting, more than one year after the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in France, was to share and discuss the results of research in the humanities, social sciences, and public health on the subject of the pandemic and its effects. It focused on analysis of the French context.
Research in the humanities and social sciences has been mobilized in a sustained manner to understand the short-term effects of the pandemic, particularly in terms of social inequalities and vulnerabilities. It has also proposed frameworks of understanding and developed surveys to account for the forms of political management of the pandemic and the ways in which individuals, families and social groups have experienced and reacted to it. This analysis has taken into account very different scalar contexts – local, territorial and national.
A major question that runs through this reflection is whether the pandemic merely reinforces pre-existing situations, or whether it can be seen as an event that slows down, interrupts or, on the contrary, accelerates certain changes in progress, whether they concern ways of living, working, moving, socializing, learning, cultivating and entertaining oneself, producing and consuming, or being a citizen. We also know that there are new issues to highlight, including social ruptures and the imposition of exceptional health and political measures, which call for an exercise in reflexivity.
Presidente Laetitia Atlani-Duault, Director of the Covid-19 Ad Memoriam Institute, was highly involved in this conference, notably in the round table discussion “Traces of the pandemic”. This roundtable brought together historian George Vigarello, archaeologist Jean Paul Demoule, and philosopher of law Antoine Garapon, and was chaired by Prof. Atlani-Duault.
Voir le programme du colloque