Illouz: When the Home Becomes the Battlefront of a Pandemic

Charles Swain, the 19th century English poet viewed the home with characteristic emotion: "Home's not merely four square walls, Though with pictures hung and gilded: Home is where affection calls, Filled with shrines the heart hath builded!" Yet, during the Covid19 crisis these "four square walls" have proved to be challenging to what we think of as intimacy, family and home. The Leibniz Campus Lecture will examine these challenges and the ways in which they connect back to larger social structures.

Host: Prof. Dr. Mathias Frisch, Professor for Theoretical Philosophy, in particular philosophy of science, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Leibniz University Hannover

Co-Host: Dr. Lucie White, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Leibniz University Hannover

Eva Illouz

Eva Illouz, born in 1961 in Morocco, is Directrice d‘Etudes at the EHESS in Paris and Rose Isaac Chair of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include the field of Cultural Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Sociology, and Feminist Theory. She is an expert and well known for her research in sociology of culture, sociology of emotions, sociology of capitalism, and the effects of capitalism on emotional life. Her previous books include The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations (2019), Manufacturing Happy Citizens (2019), and Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism (2007).

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