Events

In the final paper in our 2020/21 seminar series, Christine Okoth from the University of Warwick reads the poet and novelist Renee Gladman’s body of work through the lens of linguistic isolation.

In the seventh paper in our 2020/21 seminar series, Marie Kolkenbrock from King’s College London asks what role is played by the concept of ‘distance’ in contemporary responses to the question of how to live together.

In the sixth paper in our 2020/21 seminar series, Sarah Garfinkel from University College London explores the physiology of loneliness and its relationship with other emotional states.

In the fifth paper in our 2020/21 seminar series, Hetta Howes from City University of London talks about loneliness, solitude and transformative natural spaces in a contemporary re-telling of Beowulf

In the fourth paper in our 2020/21 seminar series, Fred Cooper from the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter explores narratives of loneliness and care from family carers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the third paper in our 2020/21 seminar series, Anne Vila from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows us how solitude figures in the assemblies organised by the Jansenist convulsionary movement in 18th-century France.