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05/10/20
 
About Curare Corona Diaries
A Collection of Diaries in the Strict Sense of the Term
On March 18, 2020, the editorial team of Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology launched a call for (auto-) ethnographic Corona Diaries in the strict sense of the term which record what is happening in one’s own environment. More than 100 authors from at least 25 different countries participated in the project. The diaries will be […]
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Melody Bishop
21/10/20
“I never thought living in a small town would have its perks.”
Devon, England, 20 March – 18 May 2020
I am a postgraduate student in the UK studying for an MSc in Medical Anthropology. I originally come from the South East of England but a couple of years ago moved with my family to take over a townhouse hotel in Devon. I stayed in Devon with my family over lockdown since my University advised […]
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Elena Liberati
21/10/20
“Finally, yet importantly, we should keep an eye on how isolation affects the mental health of researchers.”
Rome, Italy, 27 March - 28 April 2020
  My name is Elena, I am 29 years old and I am a Ph.D. student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. In February, I moved back to Rome, the city where I was born and raised, after six years I have been living elsewhere in Italy and in Europe, […]
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Claudia Liebelt
20/10/20
“… there is an unimaginable struggle going on.”
Berlin, Germany, 11 March - 29 May 2020
This diary was written by Claudia Liebelt from Wednesday, 11 March 2020, to Friday, 20 May 2020. Claudia is a Political Anthropologist interested in debates on gender and sexualities, the biopolitics of beauty and embodiment, postsecularism and new materialities, with a regional focus on the Middle East and Turkey. From October 2019–March 2020 she held […]
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Gabriela Guzmán Leifsen
20/10/20
“There can come good changes out of everything having been turned upside down for a while.”
Oslo, Norway, 22 March – 15 June 2020
I’m a Norwegian living and studying my bachelor degree in Anthropology in Denmark. I have strong connections to my two cousins from Ecuador; one of them is now studying in Canada. Currently I’m staying at my parents’ home in Oslo, together with my brother who was sent back home from his folk high school (folkehøgskole).  […]
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Juliana Beecher
20/10/20
“I couldn’t help but think: nature tried to get us with the big – the hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, fires – but now she’ll get us with the small.”
Greensboro, VT, New York, NY, Tamworth, NH, 13 March – 30 July 2020
I’m a student in the MA program in anthropology at The New School for Social Research in NYC, where I’m focusing most of my work on environmental pollution, seed saving, more-than-human worlds, speculative design, oral history…Before moving to New York for grad school, I lived with my partner, Josh, in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, […]
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