Events

In the third paper in our 2021/22 seminar series, Melissa Alexander from the University of Oxford explores solitude and sisterhood in encounters between female modernists.

In the second paper in our 2021/22 seminar series, Anna Harpin from the University of Warwick examines ‘being a mess’ as not only personal catastrophe but political, public event.

In the first paper in our 2021/22 seminar series, Anna Maguire from Queen Mary, University of London explores experiences of refugee isolation and loneliness as a weapon of the state.

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.