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Loneliness and You
by Axel Seemann
A podcast on the research and experience of loneliness. In each episode, I have a conversation with a guest who has something interesting to say about loneliness, be it from an academic (and often philosophical), personal, or any other perspective. New episodes air every second Friday.
Episodes
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Loneliness and Conversational Language Learning
Axel is joined by Katerina Manoff, the founder & CEO of ENGin, a global nonprofit that has paired over 50,000 English learners and volunteers for online conversation practice and cultural exchange. Katerina and Axel discuss the importance of conversation in language learning, the power of truth,...
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Loneliness and Surviving Christian Patriarchy
Axel is joined by Cait West, a survivor of the Christian patriarchy movement. Cait and Axel discuss her book, Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy, homeschooling, creationism, the possibility of healing and constructing a coherent self.
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Loneliness and Urban Planning
Axel is joined by Jennifer Kent, a Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism at the University of Sydney. Jennifer and Axel discuss the role of public space in creating opportunities to retreat and interact, the importance of eye contact and incidental encounters, and why privacy matters in the planning...
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Loneliness and Endangered Languages (Part 3: Yucatec Mayan)
Axel is joined by Yazmin Novelo, a speaker of Yucatec Mayan who works as a language activist and language revitalization mentor with the Endangered Languages Project. Yazmin and Axel discuss the cosmogony and spirituality of Mayan culture, the perspective inherent in language and the link between...
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Loneliness and Endangered Languages (Part 2: Grassfields Bantu Languages)
Axel is joined by Pius Akumbu, the Director of Research in African Linguistics at the French National Center for Scientific Research as well as a language activist and mentor at the Endangered Languages Project. Pius and Axel discuss the role of pitch in word meaning in Bantu languages, the...
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Loneliness and Endangered Languages (Part 1: Irish)
Axel is joined by language activist and researcher Alexandra Philbin. Alex and Axel discuss the sense of connection generated by a common language, the threats facing the Irish linguistic community, and how to party at an Irish rave!
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Loneliness and Fatphobia
Axel is joined by philosopher Kate Manne. Kate and Axel discuss fatness, its relation to social oppression, the historical roots of fatphobia and the experience of being in a larger body. Kate's book, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia, was published by Penguin Random House in 2024.
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Loneliness and the CIA
Axel is joined by author, speaker, and former CIA operative Michele Rigby Assad. Michele and Axel discuss loneliness while serving as an undercover intelligence officer before the digital age, the mental toll of constantly living under threat, and how she learned to keep herself safe by “getting...
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Loneliness and Cave Exploration
Axel is joined by exploration caver Rene Ohms. Rene and Axel discuss what it’s like to spend extended periods of time in total darkness, the trust that builds among caving teams working in the world’s remotest environments, and what it’s like to be the very first person to lay eyes on the…
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Loneliness and the Touring Musician
Axel is joined by musician and social work student Dan Whitener. Dan and Axel discuss the peculiar loneliness of being on stage, the mental health issues facing working musicians, and the role music serves as a great connector of people. You can find more of Dan and his band, Gangstagrass, at...
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Loneliness and Misogyny
Axel is joined by bioethicists Evie Kendal and Tiia Sudenkaarne. Evie, Tiia, and Axel discuss incels, misogyny, and why nobody is “owed” sexual relations. Get in touch! Email: [email protected] Instagram/TikTok: @loneliness.pod
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Loneliness and the Phillie Phanatic
Axel is joined by Dave Raymond, speaker, author, brand consultant, and the original performer of the world-famous Phillie Phanatic! Dave and Axel discuss the importance of taking charge of your own happiness, using the power of silliness and joy for community good, and the unexpected blessing…
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Loneliness and Surviving Nazi Germany
Axel is joined by Rosemarie Merino, child survivor of World War II. Rosemarie was five years old when she witnessed her Jewish grandmother’s forcible removal from her family’s safe house by the Nazis. Axel and Rosemarie discuss living with family trauma, antisemitism, and the different ways we...
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Loneliness and Ethnic Identity
Axel is joined by Prasanta Verma, author of Beyond Ethnic Loneliness. Axel and Prasanta discuss loneliness as it relates to ethnic identity, how immigrants and ethnic minorities are frequently misunderstood, and how to mitigate loneliness among these groups. For more information about Beyond…
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Loneliness and Ultramarathons
Axel is joined by Ultrarunner John Kelly, who has completed both the Barkley Marathons and the Pennine Way, two of the world’s most challenging races, multiple times. Axel and John discuss loneliness as it relates to endurance athletics in extreme environments, how we experience reality while...
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Loneliness and the Funeral Home
Axel is joined by mortician Victor M. Sweeney, who you may recognize as the death and mortuary expert from WIRED’s Tech Support and Technique Critique YouTube videos. Axel and Victor discuss loneliness as it relates to death, remembrance, and Victor’s mortuary work in a small community. In…
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First Series Final
This is the final episode of the first series of the podcast. I have a look at the conversations of the past year, try to identify some guiding threads, and create some connections. I also ramble on a fair bit about various philosophical questions. Please stay tuned - we'll be back in the autumn...
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Melba Jensen
My guest in this episode is Melba Jensen. Melba is a guide at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. She previously taught 19th Century American Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Richard Deming
My guest in this episode is Richard Deming. Richard is the Director of Creative Writing at Yale University. He is a writer, critic, and scholar whose work explores the intersections of philosophy, literature, and visual culture. His recent book, This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts…
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Tamara Kayali Browne
My guest in this episode is Tamara Kayali Browne. Tamara is Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics and Professionalism at Deakin University, Australia. She works in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine with a focus on reproductive technology (particularly ethical issues related to non-medical sex...
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Olya Kudina
My guest in this episode is Olya Kudina. Olya is Assistant Professor in Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft in the Netherlands. She explores moral questions through the lens of hermeneutics, pragmatism, and empirical philosophy and is particularly interested in AI ethics. Her new…
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Ulla Schmid
My guest in this episode is Ulla Schmid. Ulla is a physician and philosopher. One of her interests, both in research and as a social worker and junior assistant in psychiatry, is addiction. Her recent paper, Alcohol and Loneliness: Their Entanglement and Social Constitution, is published in the...
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Marlies Maes
My guest in this episode is Marlies Maes. Marlies is Assistant Professor for Youth Studies, Interdisciplinary Social Science, at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She is interested in social relationships between humans and studies loneliness, mainly amongst adolescents. Her co-authored…
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Lucy Osler
My guest in this episode is Lucy Osler. Lucy is Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK. She is interested in phenomenological and 4E approaches to online sociality, embodiment, intersubjectivity, affectivity, and psychopathology. Her recent co-authored paper, Loneliness and Absence in...
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Johnna Wellesley
My guest in this episode is Johnna Wellesley. Johnna is a PhD Candidate in Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas, Medical Branch. She is interested in the ethical, cultural, legal, and emotional aspects of medicine and focuses on the presence of shame and stigma in the dying...
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Jeff Meek
My guest in this episode is Jeff Meek. Jeff is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is interested in the experiences of gay and bisexual men in post-war Scotland, as well as the history of same-sex desire from the 17th century to the late 20th century in...
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Bryanna Moore
My guest in this episode is Bryanna Moore. Bry is Assistant Professor in the Department for Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas, USA. She is interested in clinical ethics, pediatric ethics, medical decision-making, end of life issues, virtue ethics and moral psychology. Her...
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Lars Svendsen
My guest in this episode is Lars Svendsen. Lars is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of several books, including "A Philosophy of Loneliness" (2017) for which he won the 2022 Philosophical Book Prize in Germany.
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Rick Anthony Furtak
My guest in this episode is Rick Anthony Furtak. Rick is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, USA. He is interested in the moral psychology of the emotions, the relations between philosophy and literature, and existential thought. Apart from his philosophical publications, Rick...
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Aaron Hames
My guest in this episode is Aaron Hames. Aaron is a medical anthropologist and a Research Assistant Professor in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. His research examines how the elderly in Japan encounter an ageing society and work through cooperative medical...
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Richard Gipps
My guest in this episode is Richard Gipps. Richard is a clinical psychologist and philosopher practicing as a psychotherapist in Oxford, UK. His recent book, On Madness: Understanding the Psychotic Mind, is published by Bloomsbury Press.
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Zohar Lederman
My guest in this episode is Zohar Lederman. Zohar is an emergency medicine physician with a PhD in bioethics. He currently works as a researcher at the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit at the Medical Faculty of the University of Hong Kong, where he investigates issues in bioethics including...
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Pritika Nehra
My guest in this episode is Pritika Nehra. Pritika is a political philosopher with particular interests in the works of Kant and Hannah Arendt. She is Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi, India.
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Fred Cooper
My guest in this episode is Fred Cooper. Fred is a historian of medicine and transdisciplinary researcher in the medical humanities. He currently works as a postdoctoral research associate in the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter in the UK.
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Eric Schoenmakers
My guest in this episode is Eric Schoenmakers. Eric is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Amongst other things, he focuses on the question of how people of various age groups talk about and cope with loneliness and the social...
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Samir Dayal and Jon Ericson
My guests in this episode are Samir Dayal and Jon Ericson. Samir is Professor in English and Media Studies at Bentley University in Greater Boston, US. His main research is in Culture Studies, especially postcolonial studies with a focus on South Asia. He is interested in literary theory,...
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Ruth Rebecca Tietjen and Sanna Tirkkonen
My guests in this episode are Ruth Rebecca Tietjen and Sanna Tirkkonen. Ruth is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She specializes in social and political philosophy and is interested in topics such as fanaticism and radicalization and also existential...
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Joanna McHugh Power
My guest in this episode is Joanna McHugh Power. Joanna is Associate Professor of Psychology at Maynooth University in Ireland, where she works on loneliness and social functioning in later life. Her new co-authored paper, “Freedom and loneliness: dementia caregiver experiences of the nursing…
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Elena Popa
My guest in this episode is Elena Popa. Elena is a philosopher of science and postdoctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where she is working on the project “Values, Trust, and Decision-Making in Public Health”.
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Shaun Gallagher and Jonathan Cole
My guests in this episode are Shaun Gallagher and Jonathan Cole. Shaun is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, US. His new book, the Self and its Disorders, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Jonathan is Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology at University Hospitals…
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Mark James
My guest in this episode is Mark James. Mark is a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy and cognitive science at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. His research is on topics related to embodied intersubjectivity, habituation, enactive cognitive science, learning, and design.
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Valeria Motta
My guest in this episode is Valeria Motta. Valeria is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK, where she investigates loneliness and solitude.
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Julian Stern
My guest in this episode is Julian Stern. Julian is Professor of Education and Religion at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln, UK. One of his research interests is the study of solitude, silence, and loneliness.
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Matthew Ratcliffe
My guest in this episode is Matthew Ratcliffe. Matthew is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, UK. One of his main research interests is in phenomenology and the philosophy of psychiatry. His most recent book, Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience, has just appeared with MIT...
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Elana Feldman
My guest in this episode is Elana Feldman. Elana is Associate Professor of Management in the Manning School of Business at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, US. She is a founder and steering committee member of the international Positive Relationships at Work (PRW) Microcommunity. Amongst...
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Emily Hughes
My guest in this episode is Emily Hughes. Emily is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at the University of York, UK. She is currently working on the project "Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience".
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast on the research and experience of loneliness. In each episode, I have a conversation with a guest who has something interesting to say about loneliness, be it from an academic (and often philosophical), personal, or any other perspective. New episodes air every second Friday.
HOSTED BY
Axel Seemann
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A podcast on the research and experience of loneliness. In each episode, I have a conversation with a guest who has something interesting to say about loneliness, be it from an academic (and often philosophical), personal, or any other perspective. New episodes air every second Friday.
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