Oxford Think Festival Blackwell’s Sunday

When:
November 17, 2019 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
2019-11-17T13:00:00+00:00
2019-11-17T16:00:00+00:00
Where:
Blackwell's Bookshop
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Blackwell's Bookshop
01865 333623

Saturday 9th – Thursday 21st November
Oxford University Press is delighted to once again partner with Blackwell’s Oxford to host a weekend of talks and discussions and present the Oxford Think Festival.
Celebrating the quest for knowledge and seeking to stimulate discussion of some of the big issues and ideas of our time, the festival brings together some of our most inspiring and exciting minds. Join us for a full weekend of debates and discussion, a preview event with Jon Davis & John Rentoul on the legacy of the Blair government, and a special World Philosophy Day event with Richard Swinburne.

All events are free to attend, but registration is strongly recommended.

Sunday, 17th November, 1pm – A Biography of Loneliness with Fay Bound Alberti

Despite 21st-century fears of an ‘epidemic’ of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, along with informative case studies such as Sylvia Plath, Queen Victoria, and Virginia Woolf, Fay Bound Alberti offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience, and charts its emergence as uniquely modern emotional state.