COVID-19 and Culture

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The Leeds Beckett University website occasionally uses animations to page elements and animated gifs to add impact to pages. If you wish to stop them from playing for accessibility purposes or for personal preference then please see the guidance below. Please note that browsers sometimes change how they operate, so please refer to your browser help files to find their latest information.
How do I turn off animations?

Chrome

Chrome users will need to use browser extensions. Animation Policy from Google will help you set your own preferences.

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Internet Explorer

To stop animations on a single page you can just press the 'Esc' key. This will stop the animation on that page. If you wish to restart the animations you need to refresh the page. To permanently disable the playing of animated GIF images, open Internet Options > Advanced tab. Under the Multimedia section, uncheck the Play animations in webpage check-box, click Apply and Exit and then restart your computer.

Firefox

Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit Enter to open Settings. Search for the image.animation_mode flag and change its value from Normal to None. Once you restart Firefox this will disable animations.

Podcast Mini-Series

Professor Susan Watkins from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences presents a series of episodes discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our culture and the long term impacts we may see.

The panel discuss what history can teach us about pandemics and the lessons we can learn about how society can bounce back from such an event.

Panellists:

Chair: Professor Susan Watkins
Dr Henry Irving
Dr Nick Cox
Dr Jessica Van Horssen
Dr Erich DeWald

The panel discuss how our lives have been changed by the pandemic and the ways that it has affected how we engage with culture.

Panellists:

Chair: Professor Susan Watkins
Dr Rachel Rich
Dr Melanie Chan
Dr Aaron Andrews

In this episode the panel examine how lockdown has made stigma and social inequality worse, but also how we can see challenge and resistance to that in the culture around us.

Panellists:

Chair: Professor Susan Watkins
Dr Emily Zobel Marshall
Professor Jayne Raisborough

In the final episode of this mini-series the panel examine how we can see positive personal and wider changes via writing as, hopefully, the pandemic eases or we emerge from it.

Panellists:

Chair: Dr Emily Zobel Marshall
Professor Susan Watkins
Dr Rachel Connor
Dr James McGrath

The panel discuss what history can teach us about pandemics and the lessons we can learn about how society can bounce back from such an event.

Panellists:

Chair: Professor Susan Watkins
Dr Henry Irving
Dr Nick Cox
Dr Jessica Van Horssen
Dr Erich DeWald

The panel discuss how our lives have been changed by the pandemic and the ways that it has affected how we engage with culture.

Panellists:

Chair: Professor Susan Watkins
Dr Rachel Rich
Dr Melanie Chan
Dr Aaron Andrews

In this episode the panel examine how lockdown has made stigma and social inequality worse, but also how we can see challenge and resistance to that in the culture around us.

Panellists:

Chair: Professor Susan Watkins
Dr Emily Zobel Marshall
Professor Jayne Raisborough

In the final episode of this mini-series the panel examine how we can see positive personal and wider changes via writing as, hopefully, the pandemic eases or we emerge from it.

Panellists: