1. Liana Finck, “Sketchpad: The Slow Fade of City Life,” The New Yorker, 6 April 2020.
2. We are indebted to the original participants for their insights, including symposium co-organizers Laura Ishiguro and Henry Yu and participants Diana Allan, Zeina Ismail Allouche, Angie Arsenault, Vicky Boldo, Andrea Bradford, Megan Bradley, Kelann Currie-Williams, Kaitlin Findlay, Nadia Galiani-Jones, Don Goellnicht, Jelena Golubovic, Hank Greenspan, Diana Greenwood, Evyn Lê Espiritu, Yen Lê Espiritu, Rachel Lobo, Brittany Luby, Angela May, Samantha Mehtretter, Margaret Noodin, Lisa Ndejuru, Anh Ngo, Vinh Nguyen, Peter Nyers, Thy Phu, Heather Read, Nicolasa I. Sandoval, Mohamed Sesay, Jordan Stanger-Ross, Kesso Saulnier, Jennifer Stinson, David Tough, Leyla Vural, Nicole Yakashiro and Stacey Zembrzycki. Special thanks to Laura Ishiguro who provided careful, considered, suggestions in the writing of this introduction.
3. David Eng and David Kazanjian, eds. Loss: The Politics of Mourning (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003), 2.
4. Michael S. Roth, The Ironist’s Cage: Memory, Trauma and the Construction of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), 225–226.
5. Ibid.