2025 PEARSON LECTURE - Between Isolation and Resilience: The COVID Stories Project

October 23, 2025 at 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Virtual Event

5 pm, October 23 
2025 Pearson Lecture: ‘Between Isolation and Resilience: The COVID Stories Project’ 
Livia Arndal Woods, PhD, University of Illinois Springfield project coordinator

SIU School of Medicine, 801 N. Rutledge, 2nd Fl - South Auditorium, followed by a reception in the Pearson Museum 

Livia Woods, UIS associate professor, will discuss the creation of the COVID archive, its related projects and the teamwork that brought the stories into the community.

“Scholars, doctors and students at SIU School of Medicine and the University of Illinois at Springfield have been working together to build a digital archive of COVID-era narratives with a focus on the experiences of people living in central Illinois,” said Woods. “The archive is a publicly accessible resource for anyone wanting to understand the human impacts of the pandemic in our region.”

 

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Agenda

5 pm: 2025 Pearson Lecture: ‘Between Isolation and Resilience: The COVID Stories Project’ 
Livia Arndal Woods, PhD, UIS project coordinator

6 pm: reception in the Pearson Museum

SIU School of Medicine, 801 N. Rutledge, 2nd Fl - South Auditorium  

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