Katherine Gaudet presents: Hooked: Narratives of Addiction, Recovery, and Redemption

Narratives of addiction and recovery have become their own genre, with familiar shapes and forms that reflect deep cultural ideas about morality, free will, and social responsibility. This talk will explore some of the most common stories about addiction, providing tools for understanding on a narrative and structural level. From this foundation, we will explore whether the familiarity of some stories might create barriers to recognizing different experiences of addiction or approaches to recovery, and think about where we might find more diverse accounts to inform our understanding of and response to addiction. 

This event is brought to you by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities - Humanities to Go program.