Loneliness will host an online seminar with Dr. Fred Cooper on:
Loneliness and young people in the EU: towards a cultural decoder
- social sciences
- Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (CET)
Practical information
- When
- Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (CET)
- Languages
- English
- Part of
Description
Discussions of loneliness and culture have largely fossilised around interpretations of how these themes play out in individualistic or collectivist societies, in ways that frequently miss differences, complexities, and historical changes on the ground.
Nevertheless, culture is one of the best tools we have for understanding how, when, where and why people become lonely, and how this differs across contexts.
Drawing on humanities methodologies, this paper argues for a rich, textured, and local approach to culture which could be applied to understand any cultural context or framing on its own terms, opening up new opportunities for culturally competent and precise research and intervention.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Fred Cooper is a historian of medicine, presently a research fellow at the University of Exeter's Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health.
His expertise is in loneliness and shame, and he is the author, with Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose, of Covid-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK (Bloomsbury, 2023).
More information about the speaker is available on Fred Cooper's Research Fellow page on the University of Exeter website.