Mood (the Forum)

Mood is an ephemeral thing, changing with the seasons and eluding our control. Why are our moods so susceptible to drugs, the weather, and music alike? Hegel wrote of Geist and Heidegger rhapsodized over Stimmung, so can an age have a mood too? And if so, how do we read a Zeitgeist or measure the spirit of a time? Join us to discuss what philosophy, science, and music can tell us about moods.

Speakers
Ben Highmore
Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sussex
Carolyn Pedwell
Reader in Cultural Studies, University of Kent
Anil Sebastian
Producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist

Chair
Shahidha Bari
Fellow, Forum for Philosophy
Senior Lecturer in Romanticism, Queen Mary University of London