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As people adjust to their altered lives and routines amid the COVID-19 pandemic as well as ongoing war, increasingly frequent natural disasters, worldwide political upheaval, and other unsettling disruptions, a popular term has emerged: the new normal. But what is “normal”?

This event "Returning to Normal? Life After A Pandemic" is part of an international, interdisciplinary research project that will examine this question and related ones in an investigation of the norms of life, their impact, and origins.

Scholars including Veena Das (Johns Hopkins), Estelle Ferrarese (Picardie-Jules-Verne), Clara Han (Johns Hopkins), Amber Jamilla Musser (CUNY Graduate Center), and Perig Pitrou (CNRS, Maison Française d’Oxford) will address why people express wanting to return to so-called normal life after recent disruptions, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, war, ecological and other disasters, sexual and racial violence, and forms of authoritarian populism. Specifically, participants will examine the…