As part of ‘The Age of Emotion’ for BBC Radio 4, Philippa Perry interviewed Tiffany Watt Smith. Listen to the programme, which was broadcast on Friday 18 August 2017, on BBC IPlayer.

We are delighted to announce that the 2017 Centre for the History of the Emotions Annual Lecture will be delivered this year by Professor Sianne Ngai, Stanford. The lecture will take place on 16 November 2017 in the Arts Two Lecture Theatre, QMUL (Mile End). Doors will be at 6pm and the lecture will begin at 6.30. The lecture is free to attend but we will ask attendees to register closer to the time. Title and abstract will follow in due course but save the date!

Explore the experience of emotion in the city with the Centre’s Tiffany Watt Smith tonight at the Museum of London. Entry includes a drink.

Event description:

Join us as our panel: journalist and writer Megan Nolan, poet Jay Bernard, Tiffany Watt-Smith, author of ‘The Book of Human Emotions’ and Katherine Angel, author of ‘Unmastered: A Book on Desire, most difficult to tell’ explores love and anxiety in modern times The London salons are informal evenings critically exploring the lived experience of the city including fashion, identity, power, protest and dissent. They will take place monthly throughout the City Now City Future season at the Museum of London.

At a recent talk at Hay festival, Colin Jones argued that selfies have ruined the smile – find out more and read about it in The Telegraph and The Daily Mail.

Colin also has an essay in the New York Review of Books asking whether emotions caused the Terror.

Miss Jules Evans’ excellent contribution to BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme on Wednesday 31 May? Never fear, you can listen again on Iplayer. Jules was talking about his new book, The Art of Losing Control. 

In case you missed them, here is a round up of recent reviews of books by members of the ‘Living with Feeling‘ project.

David Shariatmadari on Jules Evans‘ The Art of Losing Control in The Guardian

Paolo Gervasi on Tiffany Watt Smith’s The Book of Human Emotion in Doppiozero (with reference to Thomas Dixon’s Weeping Britannia and Colin Jones’s The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris).

Helen Stark’s book chapter ‘”Rousseau’s Ground”: Locating a Refuge for the Libertarian Man of Feeling in Julie, or the New Heloise and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage‘ was published this week in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism: Gender and Selfhood, Politics and Nation. Published by Bloomsbury, the collection was edited by Prof. Russell Goulbourne (Kings) and Dr David Higgins (Leeds).

Thomas Dixon will be giving a paper titled ‘What is Anger?’ at the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, University of Hull on May 10 at 4pm in Wilberforce LT28.

If you missed Jules Evans asking whether art galleries and theatres can really help us come together, lose control and connect with something beyond ourselves on Start the Week on Monday 24 April 2017 you can listen again on the BBC Radio 4 website.