Humanities in Conversation - Traditions of Wellbeing and Positive Psychology with Professor Gabriel Marin

Traditions of Wellbeing and Positive Psychology

If one can speak more about a “science of happiness” today (parallel to other medical, economic and especially technological and political agencies entangled in its pursuit) what can one take from literature, philosophy, spirituality and other “arts” of the Humanistic wellbeing traditions? Is the "art” separated from the “science,” and can they be complementary and enrich one another? Students and teachers are welcomed to share and foster their view on what can be taken from the great narratives of the past when dealing with the challenging quest for individual renewal, new genuine expression and self-actualization.

 

About Gabriel Marin

Gabriel Marin received his PhD in History from the University of Laval (Quebec City), and has been teaching at Royal Military College (Kingston), Ottawa and Carleton University, Canada. He is interested in Intellectual History, Historiography and Nostalgias, publishing a book in 2013 at L’Harmattan, Paris, about the relationship between national memory construction and school teaching during and in the aftermath of the totalitarian political regimes. As a postdoctoral researcher (2010-2014), Gabriel Marin continued his work bringing a comparative analysis of history and literature textbooks in Romania, France, Canada, and the US, written and taught during the Cold War period (his second book is currently under press). As a Social Sciences Research Council fellow (2007-2008), he was interested about the immigrant nostalgias, approaching taxi-drivers, migrant workforce and ethnic business. He worked and traveled in the US and Canada with Eastern European and Latin American immigrant truck-drivers having fled communism and war.

In addition, Gabriel Marin holds a MA in Social Work at the University of Ottawa, founding Canadian Association of Alternatives in Therapy, and working on depression, intercultural counselling, and spirituality in migrant psychotherapeutic settings. Gabriel Marin also lived, worked and studied in Romania, France, Hungary, and Russian Federation.

WHERE:  Segovia SG-122 or online
WHEN:  Wednesday, April 6th at 13:00h.