Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

Angela Puca joins me for this week’s fascinating Nostalgia Interview. Based at Leeds Trinity University, where she is a PhD student, Angela and I talk about how we can no longer have physical conferences during lockdown and why she moved to the UK from Italy in order to do her PhD.  We learn that Angela, who sticks to a daily writing schedule, has her own YouTube channel called Angela’s Symposium which is dedicated to the academic study of magic, paganism, witchcraft and esotericism: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPSbip_LX2AxbGeAQfLp-Ig. Angela tells me about the reasons for its inception. We discuss why the journey is more important than the final product, and Angela talks about her Italian background and how her academic journey began and why she is interested in contemporary work on witchcraft. We discover where her interest in magic comes from and how it is a way for people to connect beyond the five senses. Angela tells me why we create rather than find our own meaning, and we discover that s