2024-06-02
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Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
Im the head of programming, Connor Boyle were diving into nostalgia for this episode, but not from the often nasal gazing, rose tinted grasses greener perspective you might think.
Writer and historian Agnes Arnold Forster is here to discuss her most recent book, a history of a dangerous emotion.
The book blends fields such as neuroscience and psychology with social history to explore why what many view as a simple human fondness or the past is also vulnerable to misuse, manipulation, and which often reflects many of our deeper anxieties as a society.
Joining Agnes Arnold Forster to discuss the book is the scholar, critic, editor and professor Mehrba Emre.
Let's join Merva now with more.
I'm Merva Emre, the Shapiro Silverberg professor of creative writing and criticism at Wesleyan University, and I'm delighted to be here to speak with Agnes Arnold Foerster, an acclaimed historian who is currently a chancellor's fellow in the School of History, Classics and architecture at the University of Edinburgh.
She's the author of two academic books, one about cancer and the other about surgery, and has written widely for academic, medical and mainstream outlets.
Her latest book, which we are here to talk about, is nostalgia, a history of a dangerous emotion.
Welcome Agnes.
Thanks so much for having me.
So I don't normally start these conversations by talking about my dreams, but when I was preparing for our conversation last night, I went to bed or I fell asleep and I had a very, very vivid dream that I was back in my childhood hometown, next to the sea, surrounded by family members who now live far away or who are no longer with us.