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- 6.5 Minutes With... | Barbara J. King
Anthropologist Barbara J. King talks about how nonhuman animals experience loneliness, and how we might reconsider our relationships with them as we try to alleviate our own isolation.
8 min - 6.5 Minutes With... | Jason DanelyC21 Director Anne Basting has a conversation with anthropologist Jason Danely about the concept of the "lonely death" in Japan.8 min
- 6.5 Minutes With... | Chikako Ozawa-de Silva
Anthropologist Chikako Ozawa-de Silva talks with Director Anne Basting about definitions of loneliness, including how we might think about the making and unmaking of the social infrastructures that create lonely societies.
8 min - 6.5 Minutes With... | David DiValerioDavid DiValerio, associate professor of religious studies and history at UWM, complicates our exploration of loneliness and isolation with some details from his research on the long-term meditative retreat in Tibetan Buddhism.8 min
- 6.5 Minutes With... | Stephanie Gibson
Our "Weaponizing Loneliness" roundtable will explore the ways loneliness is experienced and resisted by incarcerated individuals. To give us some historical context to the practice of solitary confinement in prisons, doctoral candidate Stephanie Gibson talks about her research on "monuments of trauma."
8 min - 6.5 Minutes With... | Nigel RothfelsAhead of our book launch event on February 23, 2022, historian Nigel Rothfels gives a sneak peak of his newest book Elephant Trails. Rothfels also gave us some connecting threads between his research findings and ways we might think about our Lonely No More! program in the context of animal history and our upcoming Nonhuman Kinship Roundtable.8 min
- 6.5 Minutes With... | Sonia ZhangConsidering our dog and cat companions, relationships with animals may help alleviate loneliness. But what of robot pets? Sonia Zhang's work focuses on how social roboticists approach issues of loneliness as a health issue, adding more fodder to the Lonely No More! discussion.8 min
- 6.5 Minutes With... | Peter SandsC21's Lonely No More! Symposia title is inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slapstick. UWM's Peter Sands, an expert in American literature, gives some insight into the significance of this novel for our current moments.8 min
- 6.5 Minutes With... | Colleen GalambosIn this first episode of C21's newest mini-podcast series, UWM's Colleen Galambos provides some context to the latest national research on loneliness as a public health matter in the United States. Galambos's interview jumpstarts C21's Lonely No More! Symposia for the Spring 2022 semester.8 min
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A small podcast with BIG ideas. Short audio introductions by the experts and community leaders hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.