Professor Louis Charland, University of Western Ontario

Dr Felicity Callard (Institute of Psychiatry, KCL) and Dr Constantina Papoulias (Middlesex University)

Dr Geoff Bunn (Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘Love Detectors and Kiss-o-meters: The Role of the Erotic in the History of Deception Testing’
Abstract available for download: Dr Geoff Bunn: Love Detectors and Kissometers

Dr Louis Charland
University of Western Ontario

One of a series of lunchtime seminars. See: 2010 Lunchtime Seminars

Polly Bull and Beth Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London, School of History

Part of our series of lunchtime seminars.
See: 2011 Lunchtime Seminars [PDF]

Bronach Kane (Department of History, Queen Mary) on gender, affect and social belonging in Late Medieval England.

For further information see: Lunchtime Seminars (2011)

Jules Evans, (Centre Visiting Research Associate) on the revival of Hellenic philosophy in the politics of wellbeing.

For further information see: Lunchtime Seminars (2011)

In this seminar, Miri Rubin and Daniel Wildman address the vexed relationship between emotionality, anti-Semitism and visual culture from both early modern and twentieth-century perspectives. Their presentations will be followed by a round-table discussion on the theoretical and methodological challenges raised by this field, chaired by Thomas Dixon.

Camilla Schjerning, (University of Copenhagen): Through the lens of court cases, this paper explores the role of emotions in the experience, expression and negotiation of the boundaries of privacy and private space in late 18th century Copenhagen.

For further information see: Lunchtime Seminars (2011)

Juan Zaragoza, (Institute of Philosophy – Madrid), explores how material cultural studies could be helpful for historians in the study of the emotions, drawing on an exploration of the emotional experience of incurable patients in 19th Century Spain.

For further information see: Lunchtime Seminars (2011)