Feb 28, 2022
David 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.
Feb 21, 2022
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."
Feb 14, 2022
Ahead 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...
Feb 7, 2022
Considering 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.