In Conversation – Solitudes: Past and Present https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk Research on Pathologies of Solitude, 18th – 21st century Wed, 01 Mar 2023 10:25:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.8 In Conversation – Solitude and its Spaces across History, Philosophy and Architecture https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/events/in-conversation-solitude-and-its-spaces-across-history-philosophy-and-architecture/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:46:12 +0000 https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/?post_type=events&p=767 Barbara Taylor joins Lisa Guenther and Leslie Topp for an informal conversation about solitude, isolation, confinement and the rooms, cells and other spaces within which these states are experienced and enforced.

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]]> Organised in collaboration with the Architecture Space and Society Centre and the Hidden Persuaders project at Birkbeck University, this event brings together three scholars whose work deals with spaces of solitude, isolation and confinement: Barbara Taylor, Lisa Guenther, and Leslie Topp.

Ranging across history, philosophy and architecture, from the eighteenth century to the present, the discussion will address questions such as: What distinguishes solitude from isolation, a room of one’s own from a cell? Why study the history of these concepts and spaces? What is the relationship between body, mind and space in the confines of the single room? Can spaces of solitude be seen as a connecting thread between areas as diverse as psychiatry, criminal justice, monasticism, academia and the intellectual life?

Places are limited so please register for tickets here.

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