Life was all neon and Fling parties were on campus. Photography by Alan Jinich . We loved transcribing these interviews and editing down these stories. JBP: So are weand history will undoubtedly thank you someday, too. All members agree to receive our weekly newsletter, members-only communications, invitations to exclusive events and occasional breaking news updates. Tennessee football's 2023 NFL draft picks: Round 1 (No. It probably was more worthwhile dont tell Penn than a semester online, said Deborah Miller, Strickbergers mother, a former television producer. I felt like I was living in history and I wanted the chance to capture any part of it or play a more meaningful role in what history was like for me and for people of our age, Strickberger says. Philosophizing with a club bouncer, comparing wall decorations with the woman who occupied the same campus housing space 35 years priorthese are just a few of the epiphanic moments that grew out of Paul Hendricksons Advanced Writing Projects in Long-Form Nonfiction course. They share some of the stories, photos and audio interviews on their website, Generation Pandemic. Her job went remote, she realized I can take my entire life and move somewhere else. Like I cant get a cheesesteak around the corner. Over the course of six weeks, with a bit of funding from Penn and their own money too, they drove 7,300 miles, stopping in 23 states to interview more than 80 people, recording the interviews and capturing photos on Jinichs beloved Fuji XT1. Anya Miller, Juxtaposition I. Savannah Naib, untitled. Style has since lost a lot of its color and the parties have moved to clubs downtown. If I was older right now, if I had five kids, if I had a mortgage, I would be so much more worried. His final Spring Fling in 2012, the Green Monsters had hosted their annual pre-game brunch and kept a running tally of how many times Carly Rae Jepsens Call Me Maybe played. Buy Volunteers Tickets. Carrots and hummus. And that ended up being a really meaningful part, seeing young people writing while envisioning what life would be like after the pandemic., Peiss says this type of first-person archive is important for historians. In all, the pair conducted more than 80 interviews, which spawned the creation of their website, Generation Pandemic, an oral history archive that they hope to expand and eventually turn into a podcast series. We didnt come in with a list of questions. It was really energizing to be out there and trying to find someone who was generous enough to share a part of their life with us., As they settle into their senior year at Penn, they are continuing work on the Generation Pandemic archive. They also often spoke with Cloutier, who had Strickberger in his courses, Jack Kerouac & Postwar Counterculture and Post 45 American Literature & Film. Strickberger's thesis is based on the project "Generation Pandemic," which he started alongside senior Alan Jinich in fall 2020. But it also just feels like the start of a study on our generation. GDS alum Alan Jinich 17 has won the 2022 Nora Magid Mentorship Prize along with Penn classmate Beatrice Forman. As you can see by the room, Im a diehard Montreal Canadiens fan. RELATED: 10-year Philly project explores the power of empathetic listening. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which, Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright, was published in 2019. Our reporters Max Marin and William Bender deliver more on what could have persuaded the PPA board to give Petri the boot. Both Strickberger, 23, and Jinich, 22, got vaccinated before they left but they were heading to states where masking and vaccination were not prevalent. Hes the EMT who wants to become a firefighter. His daughter, Romana Lee-Akiyama, will lead a panel discussion, to be followed by a live painting demonstration by Lok Lee apprentice and longtime friendS. Joon Thomas. 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With support from grants and the Netter Center, the Andrew Hamilton School in Cobbs Creek is now home to a food forest and a thriving garden, providing healthy produce, green space, stormwater management, and educational opportunities. No one gets in unless they comply. They went into every shop on Main Street, but couldnt find anyone their age to interview. Home Arts & Culture Generation Pandemic. And now, anytime that song plays, I feel like Im getting up early in the middle of Alabama, and we have to drive. Alan Jinich, Ants [composite] Elyssa Chou, Voronoi. AJ: It got me so excited to do more of this stuff. He also began working as a production assistant on the award-winning PBS cooking show Patis Mexican Table, and has continued in seasons 6, 8 & 9. Its the reason that people end up saying later that disruptions like a pandemic can invite growth and enable possibilities that wouldnt have existed otherwise.. Well give a shoutout to a reader at random who answers correctly. Jinich, a photographer, says he wanted to pursue a long-term, creative project, and get out of the bubble of reading everything through his phone screen. Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South St. Alan will receive a full Nora Prize award of $4000 and mentorship from a large web of Penn alums in the media and their colleagues. Alan did some of the interviews in Spanish, for example, and if it had just been me doing the trip, I wouldve had no access to those. Business, & Law, Eli Saslows column Voices from the Pandemic, Self, Image, Community: Studies in Modern Fiction. Gallery - t-art magazine But they prepared with Penn professors and kept in touch with them along the way. 7 Generation Pandemic; Alan Jinich and Max Strickberger, SAS; 6 p.m.; Arts Caf, Kelly . And I think people felt some degree of freedom in being young, and they recognized from an empathetic perspective that not everyone has this and were really lucky that we do. I felt so frustrated that I wasnt doing something that was engaging more seriously with what was happening around us. For Lily Stein, C'22, Alan Jinich, C'22, and their classmates, it wasn't merely an academic experience, but a deeply personal one. The two stayed in touch after he took her course, Self, Image, Community: Studies in Modern Fiction, when she was an artist-in-residence in 2019. He had taken Peisss class, Modern American Culture, and she agreed to collaborate on this project, creating an eight-week syllabus of readings and meeting with them virtually once a week. MS: Too much music, and too few Audible books. Todays question: What was Iversons moment? MS: We definitely didnt win everyone over. Senior Alan Jinich, co-creator of Generation Pandemic. Max Strickberger: When we started the trip, we had been inside the same four walls with each other and wed felt that there was so much going on in the world but we were just reading about it on our phones. 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The state-controlled parking authority has had notable financial turbulence in recent months, perhaps the two biggest being: Airport officials taking the power from the PPA over control of its long- and short-term parking, a contract the PPA managed for nearly 50 years, and. In high school, he started a magazine, InLight, to allow those in marginalized communities to tell their stories. CityStep Penn hosts students from BB Comegys School and Southwest Leadership Academy in West Philadelphia in presenting a performance to the theme of Fantasies.. Its the pack of ramen noodles you get for like 25 cents at the store. We are excited to share the press release below: Jinich is a Penn Senior majoring in Neuroscience and English, who worked in a variety of labs as well as in several editorial settings, as writer, photographer and designer at Penn Appetit and as a production assistant and photographer for the James Beard-award-winning PBS show Patis Mexican Table. In 2021, he and a classmate took a leave from Penn to spend six months driving cross-country, interviewing more than 80 young adults in cities large and small, and creating the fascinating online Generation Pandemic Project, a portion of which was recently published in the Washington Post, and featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer and on NPRs Radio Times and Smart Talk. Maybe its just liquid courage. But behind this barrier shes invisible. Generation Pandemic: A Monument to Our Young People That journey has become a wild and unconventional ride: I started in neuroscience then added political science, but ultimately ended up doing independent . We saw that in Santa Fe in an interview with Sharon who, prior to the pandemic, spent her whole life trying to stay out of her house. I get it.. AJ: We saw different sides of each other. Definitely not.. Two Penn students road-tripped across America to document how the Wed go to the grocery store and we had a cooler in the back: It was almost all cheese and bread. Ashley Hoffman will deliver your Sunday Newsletter as always and Ill be back Monday to kickoff a new week. Senior Max Strickberger, co-creator of Generation Pandemic. I like the barrier, she says. With our strong commitment to financial aid, an independent school tuition is affordable. Early on they decided not to seek out interviews with people who were full-time college students like themselves, and instead looked for people who represented other experiences. But its not home. You need to be a subscriber to read these stories. We stand outside on the Monsters deck and people-watch hordes of kids darting around to various pre-games, many clutching bottles of cheap champagne. We had every single person we interviewed fill in the blank, in their own handwriting. October 19, 2021; . There are times where I look good and I feel good. If youve read The Secret History by Donna Tartt or watched Dead Poets Society, Id say its a bit like that. For more details, including the judges' comments on the winning work, click here. It was toward the end of their 7,300-mile journey across 23 states, on a quest to interview young adults about how the pandemic has changed their lives, when the two University of Pennsylvania students were faced with a decision: Should they go to the high school prom in Circleville, Utah? Jinich and Strickbergerchildhood friends who grew up on the same block in Chevy Chase, MDsat down at their shared apartment in West Philly to talk about the experiences of young people during the pandemic, how rejection has made them stronger, and their go-to roadtrip snacks. We knew when we started the road trip that we wanted to do these interviews and just talk to people our age. He began journalistic and media work in high school, where a photograph he took won the Gold Medal in the national Scholastic Art & Writing competition, and came in second place in the DC Congressional Art Competition in photography, which earned him a scholarship to the George Washington University pre-college photojournalism summer program. Mullins took a deep dive into the life and teaching career of Richard Polman, Maury Povich Writer in Residence in the Center for Creative Writing at Penn, whose class Mullins had earlier taken, and who is responsible for Mullinss pivot toward a possible career in journalism. And Faith, 23, who told them she was the first person to test positive for COVID-19 in her Utah county: I was the guinea pig.. Jinich handled all the photography, much of the writing and editing, and the web-building and design for this ambitious and well-received oral history project, Generation Pandemic, which recently won one of Penns Sachs Program for Arts Innovation grants. GDS teachers focus on providing an individualized education for each child, from elementary grades through high school. The Asian American Studies Program will welcome three new core faculty members next year, expanding the range of topics and classes the program offers. Send your thoughts our way at morningnewsletter@inquirer.com. Alan is very, very steady. Return to Borders and Boundaries Project Personnel. MSU baseball, softball: Alan Haller committed to solve field flooding Throwing your hands in the air, losing yourself in a moment, the music. It makes them morally and ethically accountable to their subjectsthat is, they are not just swinging by for one or two interviews, but they are building up a relationship built on trust: their trust of the subject, the subjects trust of them. So we wanted to learn about it from an academic perspective to prepare, Strickberger says. We have what you need to know ahead of the return of the annual St. Patricks Day parade this Sunday. We wanted to do more serious interviews that arent just a snippet of someones life, but a more sustained engagement with what was going on in a particular moment during the pandemic., Even though they were not officially enrolled in Penn classes, Cloutier says the pair were continuing to learn from their Penn experiences. I went to St. Thomas once. But we carried in our many suitcases, second-hand furniture, and cardboard boxes with an appreciation greater than the run-down house probably warranted. I think what theyre doing is inspiring.. But the one Im used to, the culture, no. I came to Penn after spending a gap year studying Jewish Diaspora history abroad. b. Alan Jinich: We didnt really know how the project was going to take shape. The pair spoke with Egan the night before the trip. In Chicago they were rejected by everyone they approached in Chinatown. Elyssa Chou, Blueprint. The athletics program offers competitive sports for student athletes, including cross-country, track, soccer, lacrosse, and crew/rowing. By 6abc Digital Staff We strive to bring you faculty, staff, You agree to receive our weekly e-news roundup, invitations to exclusive events, including our Citizen Speaks series, and occasional breaking news updates. Jinich and Strickberger have post-pandemic plans, too. Department of English University of Pennsylvania Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 127 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6273 Phone: (215) 898-7341 Send your guess our way at morningnewsletter@inquirer.com. Its exciting.. He's also interested in GIS Mapping and quantitative image analysis. By signing up for The Philadelphia Citizen newsletter: All memberships to The Philadelphia Citizen are renewed annually. I sit in his swivel chair and look up at him like my friends used to do for me. In a simple world, the house was already a monument in the history of our livesthe last stop on our way out of college. The Penn students who humanized the pandemic | Morning Newsletter Cloutier says even though the project focused on a particular generation, stories like Sharons make the archive a much wider and richer portrait of the American scene right now, glimpsing the experiences of other generations, he says. 2022 Creative Writing Prize Results | Creative Writing Program We didnt really know what we were going to find and what would come out of it. It was a little bit of persistence, a little bit of luck. The resulting website for that archive, Generation Pandemic, will feature about 20, 1,500-word, oral history narratives and podcasts drawn from the interviews, photos, and videos they gathered on their journey. Also, we want your reactions to last nights Sixers game and the return of Ben Simmons. Penn State waited a little bit longer than it expected to have its first selection in the 2023 NFL Draft, but cornerback Joey Porter Jr. won't have to go too far to begin his NFL career.. Porter . . That was really meaningful. Faced with another semester of virtual courses this past spring, they decided to take a chance and take the semester off from their Penn classes to pursue their Generation Pandemic project. Stein and Jinichs classmates included Margaret Arfaa, C24; Makena Deveraux, C23; and Zachary Mullins, C24. Before coming to Penn, where he received a Provost's teaching award in 2005, Hendrickson worked as a staff feature writer at The Washington Post from 1977 to 2001. Generation Pandemic, an oral history archive undertaken by Penn English major Max Strickberger and Penn English minor Alan Jinich, featured in Penn Today. Thats when they began to plot something they found much more meaningful a journey across America, from rural towns to cities, from the deep South to the Midwest, to interview a diverse group, mostly ages 18 to 25, on how the pandemic had impacted their lives. Advance registration is required and opens April 3. I was completely undecided about my major, but knew I wanted to do research. In all, the Penn seniors, now back on campus, conducted more than 80 interviews, some in Spanish Jinich is of Mexican heritage and bilingual. As in a dream, I feel that hes taken my place. Enlisting his friend and roommate, disillusioned Penn English major Max Strickberger, the two took off their spring semester, loaded up Jinich's mom's SUV with food and . December AT PENN 2021 | University of Pennsylvania Almanac JBP: What was your sustenance on the road? We worked with a history professor from Penn, Kathy Peiss; just out of the kindness of her heart, shes very generous and met with us outside of school. And, Scott Petri, the executive director of the PPA, has abruptly been removed from his role effective today amid a turbulent time for the citys parking authority. Pati and husband Daniel Jinich have been blessed with three sons, whose names are Julian, Sami, and Alan. This is already such a precarious time in our lives, now exacerbated by the pandemic, and we wanted to capture a segment of what that would be like for other Americans our age, Strickberger says. He has also been working for the Borders and Boundaries Project where he brings his interest in quantitative image analysis and skills as a multimedia journalist to assess border crossing images from Google Earth. As with any personal archive, theres always a multiplicity of lives that leave a trace, Cloutier says. And of course theyre going on the roadthey seek actual encounters., Strickberger and Jinich had taken a creative writing course, Extreme Noticing, taught by Apple, who suggested they read Eli Saslows column Voices from the Pandemic in The Washington Post. Both, in the College of Arts and Sciences, are back on campus this fall for their senior year. Or, if you ask Max Strickberger (C '22) and Alan Jinich (C '22), the word of a generation. . GDS alum Alan Jinich '17 has won the 2022 Nora Magid Mentorship Prize along with Penn classmate Beatrice Forman. 2023 Penn Today, University of Pennsylvania, Senior Max Strickberger, co-creator of Generation Pandemic, Senior Alan Jinich, co-creator of Generation Pandemic, The pandemic, health inequities, and an opportunity for change, What the U.S. economy will look like after the pandemic, English professor J.C. Cloutiers latest book sheds new light on African American literature, Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan, A sensational Hey Day for the Class of 2024, Green solutions are transforming a West Philadelphia grade school, Arts, Humanities, They learned to be patient with those they interviewed, not knowing exactly what they were looking for, but allowing stories, some of them deeply personal and tragic, yet hopeful, to unravel. Moments in Time | Omnia Initially I was thinking of just following one person around for the entire semester, but he seemed to be really excited by the idea of a tone poem, a sort of noir perspective of Penn after midnight. The result is a staggering archive that captures this precarious moment in time. It was my first time doing a really long-term creative project. When Nasir raises his voice, the line stands on its tiptoes and turns to the front like a pack of meerkats. In this agreement, you accept communications from partners which may include newsletters, exclusive event invites, discount codes and emails containing other Super Citizen Member perks. The archive explores how the pandemic has . Generation Pandemic is an oral history archive that documents the impact of COVID-19 on young adults in America. 10 overall), Darnell Wright, offensive line, Chicago Bears. The pandemic exacerbated that reality for her. Experience in writing long-form nonfiction gives the student-writer, who might one day try to make a vocation of this work, a sense of how hard it is to do something long and sustained, says Hendrickson. And then just trial and error. When COVID-19 hit, these Penn students got creative, Scott Petri is out at the Philadelphia Parking Authority. So for her, the pandemic meant the opposite of movement, and it meant she had to be home, and home didnt feel safe. For a weekly dose of ideas, solutions and practical action steps, sign up for our newsletter: (function($) {window.fnames = new Array(); window.ftypes = new Array();fnames[0]='EMAIL';ftypes[0]='email';fnames[1]='FNAME';ftypes[1]='text';fnames[2]='LNAME';ftypes[2]='text';fnames[3]='ADDRESS';ftypes[3]='address';fnames[4]='PHONE';ftypes[4]='phone';fnames[5]='BIRTHDAY';ftypes[5]='birthday';}(jQuery));var $mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true); And follow us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram. Maybe even a novel based on these experiences? And we made a loose syllabus with her and she kind got us thinking about an archive. News | Department of English Love this. I didnt know how meaningful I would find it, he says. Hendrickson, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, is a veteran author and journalist. One of their next stops was Greensboro, a small city in Alabama. We are excited to share the press release below: Jinich is a Penn Senior majoring in Neuroscience and English, who worked in a variety of labs as well as in several editorial settings, as writer, photographer and designer at Penn Appetit and as a production assistant and . I cant just pull up on my cousins.. Theres many commonalities, but mostly differences. Lewis sits up on his raised twin bed. The door reads Lewis: Hampstead, QC. He opens the door with a smile and I introduce myself as a past resident. The prom was one of dozens of unexpected experiences shared by seniors Max Strickberger and Alan Jinichbest friends and Penn roommates who grew up on the same street in Chevy Chase, Marylandduring their journalistic endeavor. Generation Pandemic is an oral history archive that documents the impact of COVID-19 on young adults in America. What it means. Watching: The boom of sports betting in New Jersey, despite the laws in place to slow it down. Alan is a multimedia journalist based in Philadelphia. The professor and I were on the phone over winter break trying to brainstorm some ideas for a long-form project before the start of the semester, says Jinich. . AJ: I think a lot of the categories were kind of very extreme. It was an underground job at the height of COVID restrictions. We had a lot of rejections. Glitter and pink makeup smudged across Sandras desk next to her sewing machine, where she expertly tended to hemming her dresses shorter and shorter. For the student to come to terms with this in a long-form project pays dividends they dont even realize at the time.. Jessica Blatt Press: When you set out on this road trip, what was your goaldid you two have a hypothesis about what youd find, or what were you seeking? Robyn, Ronni, Deborah, Amy, and I all occupy a small square of my computer screen. He takes his job seriouslysafeguarding The Scroll and carrying it with him through medical school, through various moves, through travels. I love tradition. News & Events. Meet Pati Jinich Husband Daniel Jinich and Sons. Her Net Worth: 13 The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce this year's winners. RELATED: New film captures a Philly familys struggle with opioid addiction. Most of my junior year was spent wandering from bedroom to bedroom, each its own ecosystem. And check out their powerful, sweet and hilarious mix of post-pandemic wishes. A framed black-and-white portrait of a young couple kissing on a train hanging on the wall to the right of her desk: spontaneity within limits. They worried both about their son missing a semester and his health and safety. Department of EnglishUniversity of PennsylvaniaFisher-Bennett Hall, room 1273340 Walnut StreetPhiladelphia, PA, 19104-6273Phone: (215) 898-7341Fax: (215) 573-2063, 2023 The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Generation Pandemic, an online oral history archive by senior English major Max Strickberger and senior English minor Alan Jinich, featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post. Department of English Do you think Penn feels like Philly? I ask. In high school, I started a culture and identity magazine that was predicated on personal storytelling. Margo Natalie Crawford is a professor of English and the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence and the director of the Center for Africana Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences. March 28, 2022. Jinichs ultimate piece, Penn After Midnight, saw him exploring nocturnal happenings around campus. All rights reserved. GENERATION PANDEMIC Generation Pandemic is an oral history archive that documents the impact of COVID-19 on young adults in America. Although I feel like maybe I was in control? For questions about membership or to opt out, please email [emailprotected]. Our little class would meet once every two weeks over the dinner hour. They were willing to super put everything on pause and take a leave of absence, which I think was gutsy, said Jinich, a chef. Like what youre reading? Round 3 (No. We moved into the Monster in August 2020, height of the pandemic. And that wasnt just like a class piece; it was very much an age-related commentary on whats going on now. Today we highlight the adventures of two Penn students who took off on a multistate trek to chronicle COVID-19s human cost.
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