Chikako Ozawa-de Silva's guest appearances

Chikako Ozawa-de Silva

Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

Jimmy Carter

Gordon Ramsay

Salman Rushdie

Jinho Choi

Joseph Ledoux

Anjan Chatterjee

Robert Frank

Melanie Mitchell

Matt Ridley

Chris Martin

Andy Clark

John Dunne

Dan Reynolds

Fiery Cushman

Molly Crockett

OwlTail

Loneliness is everybody’s business. Neither a pathology, nor a rare affliction, it is part of the human condition. Severe and chronic loneliness, however, is a threat to individual and public health and appears to be on the rise. In 2018, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said, “Loneliness is one of the greatest public health challenges of our time,” and appointed the country’s first ever Minister for Loneliness. Contemporary scholarship is therefore focusing on loneliness not as merely an individual matter, but as a public health issue that negatively impacts both physical and psychological health, even increasing the risk of mortality. This talk examines what is and is not loneliness, conditions of the “lonely society” and the role of culture in loneliness. Based on my long-term ethnographic studies, I point to how society itself can exacerbate experiences of loneliness. One of the most important messages of this talk, is that the anatomy of loneliness is not the anatomy of a single individual, but of a type of society. Link to The Anatomy of Loneliness: https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Loneliness-Contemporary-Ethnographic-Subjectivity/dp/0520383494/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=chikako+ozawa+de+silva+the+anatomy+of+loneliness&amp;qid=1632521910&amp;sr=8-1

Loneliness is everybody’s business. Neither a pathology, nor a rare affliction, it is part of the human condition. Severe and chronic loneliness, however, is a threat to individual and public health and appears to be on the rise. In 2018, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said, “Loneliness is one of the greatest public health challenges of our time,” and appointed the country’s first ever Minister for Loneliness. Contemporary scholarship is therefore focusing on loneliness not as merely an individual matter, but as a public health issue that negatively impacts both physical and psychological health, even increasing the risk of mortality. This talk examines what is and is not loneliness, conditions of the “lonely society” and the role of culture in loneliness. Based on my long-term ethnographic studies, I point to how society itself can exacerbate experiences of loneliness. One of the most important messages of this talk, is that the anatomy of loneliness is not the anatomy of a single individual, but of a type of society. Link to The Anatomy of Loneliness: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Loneliness-Contemporary-Ethnographic-Subjectivity/dp/0520383494/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=chikako+ozawa+de+silva+the+anatomy+of+loneliness&amp;qid=1632521910&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Loneliness-Contemporary-Ethnographic-Subjectivity/dp/0520383494/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=chikako+ozawa+de+silva+the+anatomy+of+loneliness&amp;qid=1632521910&amp;sr=8-1</a>

Lecture | Chikako Ozawa-de Silva | The Anatomy of Loneliness

Robyn Fivush

Chikako Wzawa-de Sliva

We will explore how people vary in their individual experiences of mental imagery and how this might relate to their creative abilities, with particular reference to writing. Then we will consider neural processes that underlie imagery and its variable expression across individuals.

We will explore how people vary in their individual experiences of mental imagery and how this might relate to their creative abilities, with particular reference to writing. Then we will consider neural processes that underlie imagery and its variable expression across individuals.

Lunch | Robyn Fivush and Chikako Ozawa-de Silva | Narratives, Self-Transformation, and Healing