Water history in the time of COVID-19: cancelled conversations

Abstract

In the months following the emergence of COVID-19 as a global force, many academic conferences were cancelled. Such meetings are the life-force of international scholarly communities, and are places where ideas are shared, projects are introduced, and potential collaborators meet. This year, many important conversations were interrupted. And so we reached out to scholars who had planned on presenting on water history and invited them to submit papers as short pieces in order to give them a chance to introduce themselves and their projects to the broader community. We treated these differently from regular submissions, accepting them as pre-peer reviewed in as much as they had been selected by conferences. These are, notably, works in progress rather than final pieces, and the authors of these short pieces welcome your feedback, support, and suggestions, much as they would do so at conferences. In the interest of beginning to find new ways of using journal * Seohyun Park