Evolution of Love: a Discussion with Svetlana Kolchik

EVOLUTION OF LOVE: a discussion with Svetlana Kolchik, author of the bestseller “The New Family"

Today we expect everything from a partner at once: passion, friendship, fidelity, support and sex “like in the movies.” But marriage for love is a relatively recent invention, and monogamy originally didn’t arise for romantic reasons. How has this changed our expectations, the quality and duration of relationships — and what alternatives exist? We will discuss this at an evening discussion with Svetlana Kolchik.

Also at the meeting

• How contemporary marriage relates to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Who invented monogamy and what it has meant for women
• Guest and Boston marriages, platonic kinship, romances with AI: could one of these 10 new relationship formats make us happier?

Svetlana Kolchik

Svetlana Kolchik is a journalist, social anthropologist, a graduate of Columbia University in New York, former deputy editor-in-chief of Marie Claire Russia and the author of several books, including the bestseller “The New Family.” She runs the Telegram channel [“A what, is that allowed?”] and an online media outlet about AI. Over the past three years she has given more than 50 lectures on love and relationships in 15 cities across Europe.