Over the next few months, the Centre for the History of Emotions is running a series of events. Click through to Eventbrite for further information and to book tickets.
16/11/18 – My First Death
22/11/18 – Annual Lecture: Anger, Fast and Slow
27/11/18 – Professor Jean-Jacques Courtine, Fear in an Age of Anxiety
03/12/18 – Professor Jean-Jacques Courtine, Madness in Paris, Paris in Madness
How do healthcare professionals cope with death? In what ways do our deaths affect them? Come along to this event at the Royal College of Nursing for a frank, candid, and informal conversation about death, dying, and mourning. Doctors, nurses, and other practitioners will each take the mic for five minutes to share their first experiences of patient death and reflect on the emotional costs of care. You will also have the opportunity to think about and discuss the issues raised in a range of interactive activities.
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, Jean-Jacques Courtine, will give the third in a series of lectures entitled, ‘The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib. The Evil of Banality and the History of Emotions’.
The pictures of the tortures inflicted by American soldiers on Iraki prisoners in Abu Ghraib jail in 2003 have become global icons that cannot be easily erased from our collective memory. But once you get past the visual shock and disgust they inevitably provoke, you discover the complexity, as well as the many paradoxes, of their construction and of the range of emotions they involve. Among them lies the disturbing fact that this unprecedented series of pictures gives a strange impression of déjà vu. This lecture discusses authors such as Hannah Arendt, Norbert Elias, Susan Sontag or Giorgio Agamben and shows that there are other, older pictures lurking below the Abu Ghraib snapshots, ghost images from ordinary American mass culture, “regarding, as Sontag would say, the pain of others.” And the most disturbing aspects of the Abu Ghraib photographs may well be that these distant images from a foreign war suddenly seem so close to home and that their strangeness feels so familiar.
Jointly organised by the School of History and the Centre for the History of Emotions.
All welcome but booking is essential.
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, Jean-Jacques Courtine, will give the second in a series of lectures entitled, ‘Madness in Paris, Paris in Madness’.
Jointly organised by the School of History and the Centre for the History of Emotions.
All welcome but booking is essential.
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, Jean-Jacques Courtine, will give the first in a series of lectures entitled ‘Fear in an Age of Anxiety’.
Jointly organised by the School of History and the Centre for the History of Emotions.
All welcome but booking is essential.