Yarmouth August Coffee Talk AARP Maine

We invite you to join our next Coffee Talk in Yarmouth. In August we are looking forward to hosting the Maine Humanities Council’s guest speaker visiting Bates College Professor, Joshua Rubin. In this presentation, socio-cultural anthropologist Josh Rubin introduces participants to an exciting concept in social theory called ‘structures of feeling’–simply put, how the conditions in which we live produce patterns in our feelings and emotions. With the aid of straightforward examples and comprehensible language, this presentation will show how attendees can use this concept to name their feelings more precisely, identify the social conditions that produce those feelings, and to act more intentionally in response to those feelings when they are felt.

AARP Maine’s Coffee talk program is an ongoing volunteer run program that invites the community to listen to speakers and connect with their neighbors. This program is free, but registration is required.