Diarist A25 shared a few thoughts with us about our most recent (October 22, 2021) set of diaries and our blog entry summarizing some of…
Our most recent diary day, Oct. 22, was a Friday, and our volunteer writers shared with us how their workweeks drew to a close (aside…
Pat Collier and Jim Connolly, EDLM’s director and co-director, presented a talk to the “Using Mass Observation’s Covid-19 Collections” seminar series, based at the University…
We’ve added a new feature to the EDLM website—a Visualizations page. It offers users a different way to explore our collection of day diaries. Since…
Editors note: This is the third of three blog posts applying concepts from Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism to EDLM volunteer writing about the pandemic. Over…
Editor’s note; This is the second of three blog posts applying concepts from Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism to Everyday Life in Middletown writings on the…
The study of everyday life lost one of its boldest and most formative voices this summer with the passing of Lauren Berlant, a prolific literary…
May 12, 2021 One of the primary inspirations of the Everyday Life in Middletown Project is Mass Observation, created in the late 1930s by a…
Our colleagues and collaborators at Ball State University Archives have been documenting the local pandemic experience. We’re happy to report that the collection is now…
It has been widely documented that the pandemic is exacerbating social inequalities—hitting some demographics (the poor and working class, people of color, essential workers) harder…