Leadership and Public Policy Seminar - Anxiety Culture: The New Global State of Human Affairs
Speaker: Prof John Allegrante, Columbia University
Panel Discussion Featuring:
Prof Deng Qihong, Zhengzhou University School of Public Health
Prof Raphael Liogier, Institut d'Études Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence
Dr Dean He, HKUST
Moderator: Prof Donald Low, HKUST
Date: 19 Nov (Tues)
Time: 13:30-15:00
Venue: IAS LT (G/F), HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study
Mode: In-person
Registration: https://ust.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ebNx5J1t2wNT3p4
The twenty-first century is characterized by uncertainty: from catastrophic climate change to the accelerating pace of technological change, societies around the world are gripped by anxiety about the future. In this lecture, Professor John Allegrante, the Charles Irwin Lambert Professor of Health Behavior and Education at Columbia University, will present the key arguments of Anxiety Culture: The New Global State of Human Affairs, a groundbreaking new book of which he is the principal co-editor. Anxiety Culture examines the forces that increase anxiety as a phenomenon beyond solely individual experiences of clinical anxiety to pervade global culture. Covering fears related to climate change, populist and extremist movements around the world, gun violence, artificial intelligence, and more, the book also examines how anxiety is expressed in literature and the media and how a culture of anxiety affects policy making.
