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Discussion: Nostalgia - A History of a Dangerous Emotion
15 May 2024, 6:00 pm鈥�7:30 pm
Join the 果冻影院 European Institute, the IAS and Grand Challenges, for an interdisciplinary discussion of nostalgia, drawing on a new book by Agnes Arnold-Forster.
This event is free.
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- All | 果冻影院 staff | 果冻影院 students
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- Free
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Institute of Advanced Studies
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IAS Common Ground, G11ground floor, South Wing果冻影院, Gower St, LondonWC1E 6BT
Nostalgia is a social and political emotion, vulnerable to misuse, and one that reflects the anxieties of the age. It is one of the many ways we communicate a desire for the past, dissatisfaction with the present and our visions for the future.
In Nostalgia: A Biography, Agnes Arnold-Forster traces the history of this complex, slippery emotion and uses it as a lens through which to consider the changing pace of society, our collective feelings of regret, dislocation and belonging, the conditions of modern and contemporary work, and the politics of fear and anxiety.
Join the 果冻影院 European Institute, the IAS and 果冻影院 Grand Challenges, for an evening with the author, in conversation with 果冻影院 academics, to consider the origins of nostalgia as a psychopathological disorder through to how it is used and misused in contemporary life 鈥� in areas from politics to advertising 鈥� and how we best respond.听
Speaker
Chancellor鈥檚 Fellow, University of Edinburgh听
Respondents
, Professor in Jung History, 果冻影院 SELCs and Co-Director of the 果冻影院 Health Humanities Centre听
Emily McTernan, Associate Professor in Political Theory, 果冻影院 Department of Political Science听
, writer, journalist and 果冻影院 European Institute, Writer in Residency 2024
Chair
Nicola Miller, Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies
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About the Speaker
Agnes Arnold-Foster
Agnes Arnold-Foster is a writer; researcher; and historian. She has written, researched, and presented on everything from women's health in today's Britain to the history of cancer; from the 1918 flu pandemic to the well-being of surgeons in twenty-first-century America. She is an expert in the history of Europe, the USA, and Canada, and her research spans the eighteenth century to the present day. She explores societies, cultures, medicine, science, technology, emotions, and the world of work.听