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- **Event Name**: Bringing Something New into Being: Joy and Natality in Anthropology
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Inaugural Lecture, by Professor Joanna CookAbout this EventAbstractIn this lecture I ask, what might an anthropological focus on joy reveal about how people live, what they value, and how they relate to the world around them? And what might an analytic focus on joy contribute to anthropological theory?While anthropologists have provided powerful accounts of the negative affective qualities of contemporary life, highlighting experiences of ennui and melancholy in the ‘unworkable fantasies’ of modernity, they have rarely focused on joy.I argue that anthropological attention to joy might provide insight into the ‘natality’, in Hannah Arendt’s terms, of contemporary life: how possibility is created and how something new is brought into being.By embracing the complexity of human emotional life, even in contexts of iniquity and injustice, we might highlight the many and multiple ways in which people move from numbness to action. In so doing, I committedly hold open the possibility of hope in relation to wider social, environmental, and structural forces by emphasising narratives of human connection and flourishing.About Professor Joanna CookJoanna Cook is a Professor of Anthropology at UCL. She is the author of Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and change in Thai monastic life (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Making a Mindful Nation: Mental health and governance in the 21st century (Princeton University Press 2023).Drinks will be served following the event.
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- **city**: London
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- **location**: Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL
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