Events
Past Events
Thursday 30th May, 2024
13:00-14:30 , BLOC Cinema, ArtsOne Building, QMUL Mile End Campus, Mile End Road, London, E1 4PA
Screening and Panel Discussion of ‘Invisible’ (2023): Domestic Workers’ Commutes in Colombia
On 30 May, the short documentary ‘Invisible’ will be screened at QMUL’s BLOC Cinema (13:00-14:30). The film explores the daily challenges faced by domestic workers in Colombia who commute on public transport. Domestic workers’ journeys are invariably long, expensive, overcrowded and often dangerous, yet they must endure them twice a day to maintain their frequently undervalued jobs and to support their own families.
The 30-minute screening (in Spanish with English subtitles) will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A. We are delighted that one of the film’s directors, Dr Valentina Montoya Robledo, and a representative of the Nanny Solidarity Network (NSN), Sara Gomes, will be joining us for the discussion. For more details about this free event, and to register, please go to the Eventbrite page.
This event is being organised as part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Affective and Immaterial Labour in Latin(x) American Culture’. For more information, see the blog site, which includes a co-authored blog post about the making of ‘Invisible’ and about the Invisible Commutes project.
[Eventbrite booking link: https://invisible-screening-panel.eventbrite.com]
Wednesday 29th May, 2024
5-7pm, Arts One 1.36, Queen Mary University of London (Mile End campus)
Love, grief and resistance. Young women and emotions in Belgian reform schools, 1900-1960
You are warmly invited to the following research seminar, organized by the Centre for the History of Emotions
Laura Nys (QMUL), Love, grief and resistance. Young women and emotions in Belgian reform schools, 1900-1960
You can attend
- in person, at Queen Mary University of London, Arts One 1.36
- or online (request a link from e.carrera@qmul.ac.uk)
Abstract
This paper is a microhistory of young women and emotions in the Belgian reform school of Bruges in the early 20th century. As a state institution for juvenile offenders, the reform school imposed a harsh regime on the young women in view of their re-education. Using the women’s clandestine correspondence, of which intercepted fragments are preserved in the case files, this paper discusses romantic friendship, sexuality and the role of suffering in the women’s discourses. Personal correspondence with their families provides insights into the affective cultures of working class families, while a comparison between these types of correspondence allows to differentiate between discourses of love, friendship and family and the changes throughout time. The paper also considers the role of censorship, disciplinary power and subversive practices, exploring the possibilities for an ‘emotional agency’ in the disciplinary institution.
Dr. Laura Nys is a visiting scholar at the Centre for the History of the Emotions, QMUL. Her research is funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation. See her Profile page
Contact: l.nys@qmul.ac.uk
Thursday 4th April, 2024
12:30-14:00 (lunch provided), Geography 126
Pedagogy, Psychotherapy and Creative Practice in Twentieth-Century France: Comparative Perspectives
Please join us for an exciting event co-hosted by the QMUL Comparative Literature and Modern Languages Research Seminar and The Centre for the History of Emotions
Geography 126, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS (see map here).
All are very welcome! For catering purposes, please register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pedagogy-psychotherapy-and-creative-practice-in-twentieth-century-france-tickets-838499042207?aff=oddtdtcreator
Encompassing discussion of figures whose trajectories traversed the domains of psychiatry, pedagogy and the arts in twentieth-century France — including Jean Dubuffet, Élise and Célestin Freinet, François Tosquelles and Frantz Fanon — the two papers will explore how interactions across these fields generated new conceptions of creative expression and collective life.
By delineating the historical, political and aesthetic circumstances that determined these exchanges between education, psychotherapy and the arts, the session invites discussion around disciplinary innovation in the contemporary moment.
Professor Jean Duffy ‘From psychiatrist to pedagogue, patient to pupil: Jean Dubuffet’s catalytic encounters with theory and practice’ (The University of Edinburgh)
Dr Richard Mason ‘Traits d’union: institutional psychotherapy, emancipatory pedagogy and the collective stakes of learning to read and write’ (Queen Mary University London)
Chaired by Professor Kiera Vaclavik, Director of the Centre for Childhood Cultures (QMUL)
Jean Duffy is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely on the nouveau roman, on the relationship between literature and the visual arts, and on ritual, image, and artefact in contemporary French fiction. Her most recent book, Perceiving Dubuffet: Art, Embodiment, and the Viewer (2021), contextualizes Jean Dubuffet’s work within contemporary developments in phenomenology and examines the central role played by questions relating to embodiment in the evolution of his aesthetic thinking and artistic practice. She is currently preparing a second monograph on Dubuffet which will focus on his creative writings.
Richard Mason is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University London. His research looks at conceptual exchanges between the domains of literature and education, primarily in French and francophone contexts. He is currently working on two projects: one on the relationship between learning to read and write and institutional and collective life in twentieth-century France; the second on the status of ‘education’ in Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. Recently he has co-edited, with Kasia Mika, a special issue of the critical theory journal Paragraph, entitled Difficulty’s Knots: Disturbance, Untimeliness, Risk (March 2024), which looks at conceptions of difficulty across education and the arts and humanities.
Thursday 15th February, 2024
online: 6-7.30pm/ in person: 6-8.30pm (including reception) , Arts Two Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS
Annual Lecture: Thomas Dixon, ‘From Passions to Emojis: Looking Back on Twenty Years in the History of Emotions’
We are delighted that Prof. Thomas Dixon will be returning to QMUL to give the Centre for the History of Emotions Annual Lecture for 2024 on Thursday 15 February at 6pm, at the Arts Two Lecture Theatre (see map here) and online.
Thomas Dixon was one of the founding members of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of Emotions, and its first Director from 2008 to 2017. His books include From Passions to Emotions (2003), Weeping Britannia (2015) and The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction (2023). Thomas left QMUL in 2023 to pursue a new career, and in this lecture he looks back on his time as a historian of emotions, offering thoughts on his own contributions to the histories of passions, tears, anger, love, friendship, and insect emotions – and also on the ways that the QM Centre for the History of Emotions has connected with the wider world through its audio productions, its work with schools, and the “lost emotions machine”. Finally, Thomas will discuss what the difference is between passions and emojis, why it matters, and what the future might hold for the history of emotions.
The lecture will be a celebration of Prof. Dixon’s invaluable legacy to Queen Mary, to the Centre for the History of the Emotions we founded in 2008, and to the steadily growing community of scholars working on the philosophy, science and history of emotions. You can choose to attend:
In person: 6-8.30pm (including Q&A and reception), Arts Two Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS (see map here). Doors at 5.45pm. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Arts Two Foyer at 7.30pm.
OR
ONLINE option, via zoom, 6-7.30pm (with Q&A). You will be sent the details via Eventbrite (if you choose the online option), but you should just be able to click the link below and join once the webinar starts (no passcode and no verification are required):
https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/s/82337314439
Webinar ID: 823 3731 4439
If you wish to attend, please ensure you get the correct ticket when you register on Eventbrite (now updated with both in-person and online options). If you have already registered through Eventbrite to attend in person but can no longer do so, please cancel your in-person (or general admission) ticket on on Eventbrite. If you wish to attend online, please ensure you choose the online ticket option.
A recording of the lecture will be posted on the Centre for the History of Emotions webpage in due course.
Please contact e.carrera@qmul.ac.uk with any queries.
Thursday 14th December, 2023
5-6:15pm, QMUL, Arts One 1.36
‘Nostalgia in Post-Partition India and Pakistan’: Discussion with Razak Khan at QMUL, 14 December, 5-6.15pm
The Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London is pleased to welcome you for a discussion with Razak Khan on Nostalgia in Post-Partition India and Pakistan, based on his recent book Minority Pasts: Locality, Emotions, and Belonging in Princely Rampur (Oxford University Press, 2022), on 14 December 2023 at 5-6.15pm at QMUL, Arts One 1.36
Razak Khan is a Research Fellow in History at the University of Göttingen.
Participants are encouraged to read Chapter 5 ahead of the discussion. For a PDF, please contact e.carrera@qmul.ac.uk
Tuesday 21st November, 2023
3-4.30pm, Arts One 1.27, Queen Mary University of London (Mile End campus)
The Connections between Passions, Virtues and Dependence: Republican Echoes on the Insular Margins of the Spanish Monarchy, 1600-1800
Research-in-progress seminar with precirculated paper
by Nira Santana Montañez (Instituto de Análisis y Aplicaciones Textuales, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
and Víctor García Alemán (Instituto de Filosofía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Thursday 14th September, 2023
5.30pm, Hybrid Event: Online / Perrin Lecture Theatre, Whitechapel Campus, London E1 2AT, UK
‘What is the vision for the future of medical education… AI of course! That’s Affective Intelligence’ Inaugural Lecture of Professor Arunthathi Mahendran
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Arunthathi Mahendran
Event organized by the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
Date: Thu, 14 September 2023
Time: 5.30pm
Location: Hybrid Event | Online | Perrin Lecture Theatre, Whitechapel Campus, London E1 2AT, United Kingdom
Registration: Eventbrite
Please note that this is a hybrid event with an option to attend in person or join online.
5.30pm – Event starts, Introduction of Professor Arunthathi Mahendran
5.35pm – What is the vision for the future of medical education… AI of course! That’s Affective Intelligence’
6:20pm – Reception
Wednesday 19th May, 2021
17:00 BST (note change of time), via Zoom
Dr Deborah Gould (University of California) Passions & Danger in Trump’s Time and After
Through an exploration of crowds, affect, and the political, Deborah Gould's talk considers left activist compositional tasks amid the felt contingency of the current moment.
Wednesday 5th May, 2021
POSTPONED,
Dr Karen Engle (University of Windsor, Canada) and Dr Yoke-Sum Wong (Alberta University of the Arts, Canada), Thinking About Feeling
Dr Karen Engle and Dr Yoke-Sum Wong discuss their recent book project, Feelings of Structure: Explorations in Affect and their project and exhibition, Structures of Anticipation
Wednesday 7th April, 2021
13:00 BST, via Zoom
Dr Nida Kirmani (Lahore University) Playing at the Boundary
Dr Nida Kirmani (Lahore University) discusses a short documentary about fun and feminism in Karachi.