Kevin O'Neill on "the saddest day of the year"

Twenty years ago, a research psychologist of minor acclaim announced that Monday, January 21, 2005, would be the saddest day of the year. The press release included a mathematical formula and the catch phrase “Blue Monday.” The product of wonky science and marketing hubris, the popularity of Blue Monday today presents an opportunity to think critically about a historical phenomenon that has become something of a cultural obsession: the pursuit of happiness. 

Join DSR faculty member Professor Kevin O’Neill in his capacity as the Dean of Trinity College, U of T, on the twentieth anniversary of Blue Monday—Monday, January 20, 2025—to consider a specific history of happiness and what it might mean for our lives.

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