

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Bookworm #90 - Author Conversation with Don James McLaughlin
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: Panelists and featured guests discuss history topics with Clements staff in this webinar series. In this conversation, author Don James McLaughlin explores how phobia — first tied to diseases like hydrophobia (rabies) — became a flexible suffix attached to various fears and social concerns, shaping political, medical, and aesthetic thought from the colonial period through the early 20th century.

McLaughlin traces the emergence and evolution of phobia as a concept in American culture long before it became established in modern psychology. McLaughlin challenges the idea that phobia only gained prominence with late-19th-century psychiatry, showing instead that the term’s roots extend back to early American literary and medical discourses.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ann-arbor-michigan/bookworm-90-author-conversation-with-don-james-mclaughlin/200029625381218
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, virtual, webinar
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Ann Arbor, Michigan
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, 909 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190, United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: William L. Clements Library (https://allevents.in/org/william-l-clements-library/12609427)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm (+00:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Online event, 909 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190, United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** William L. Clements Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, workshops, virtual, webinar
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Bookworm #90 - Author Conversation with Don James McLaughlin ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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