Dear friend of Arkadia, You are invited Arbis and the bookshop to ‘The Nordic Cult of Loneliness’ by Peter Stadius on Thursday 17.11 at 6.00 p.m. http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/nordic/english/index.html http://www.hel2.fi/arbis/english/index.htm Welcome! Warm regards, Ian www.arkadiabookshop.fi –Entrance is free and green tea will be offered. A donation of €2 (or more!) to fund the event is suggested and would be most welcome. The Nordic Cult of Loneliness Unlike in many other cultures Nordic people seem to enjoy loneliness. Actually a kind of loneliness cult can be traced in Nordic societies. In many cultural expression loneliness is a mark of nobility. Some scholars even claim that the Nordic welfare state actually promotes a kind of “state individualism” instead of collective thinking. How is this possible? A lecture by University Lecturer Peter Stadius, Helsinki University.