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Conversations and Disputations Seminar

The Philosophers painting

Venue: Online-via Zoom
Time: 17:00
Convenors: Katy Pettit, Administrator, (Raphael Samuel History Centre), Camilla Schofield (University of East Anglia), Rob Waters (Queen Mary, University of London) and Barbara Taylor (Queen Mary, University of London)

Term 1- Autumn 2020- Solitudes Past and Present strand

Insomnia in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Case of Albert Kimball

Matthew Beaumont (UCL)

Online- via Zoom

Solitude, Slavery, and Social Privilege at the Elite Roman Villa

Darrel Janzen (University of British Columbia)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2021

Solitudes/Multitudes in Eighteenth-Century France: The Curious Case of the Jansenist Convulsionnaires

Anne Vila (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Online- via Zoom

Family Carers, Loneliness, and COVID-19: Preliminary Findings from ‘Caring Through Coronavirus’

Fred Cooper (University of Exeter)

Online- via Zoom

Medieval Solitude in Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife

Hetta Howes (City University of London)

Online- via Zoom

Term 3- Spring 2021

Emotion in Body and Brain: the Biological Basis of Empathy

Sarah Garfinkel (University College London)

Online- via Zoom

Hedgehog Humanities: On the Ethics & Cultural Politics of Distance

Marie Kolkenbrock (King’s College London)

Online- via Zoom

Renee Gladman and the Material Composition of Isolation

Christine Okoth (University of Warwick)

Online- via Zoom