Events
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.
ViewIn 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.
ViewIn the fifth paper in our 2020/21 seminar series, we hear from Hetta Howes from City University of London.
ViewIn the sixth paper in our 2020/21 seminar series, we hear from Sarah Garfinkel from University College London.
ViewIn the seventh paper in our 2020/21 seminar series, we hear from Marie Kolkenbrock from King’s College London
ViewIn 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.
ViewIn the second paper in our 2020/21 seminar series, Darrel Janzen from the University of British Columbia explores the intersection of gender and class in the voluntary solitudes of elite Roman men.
ViewIn the first paper in our 2020/21 seminar series, Matthew Beaumont from UCL takes us through the history of sleeplessness via a Victorian case-study.
ViewThis event has been postponed due to COVID-19 and will be rescheduled at a later date.
ViewThis event has been postponed due to COVID-19 and will be rescheduled at a later date.
ViewIn the fifth paper in our 2019/20 seminar series, James Morland from Queen Mary University of London considers the reflections of 18th-century physicians on questions of solitude and its links with melancholy.
ViewIn the fourth paper in our 2019/20 seminar series, Angus Gowland from UCL explores the relationship between solitude and melancholy, looking forward and back from the vantage point of 1651.
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