Events
Past Events
Thursday 16th June, 2011
9am, Arts 2
Mastering the Emotions: Control, Contagion and Chaos, 1800 to the Present Day
International Interdisciplinary Conference, with key-notes by Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford) and Allan Young (McGill)
Friday 27th May, 2011
1pm, Arts 2
Reading in the eighteenth century and needlework in the twentieth as case-studies of emotional “self-help”
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]
Thursday 31st March, 2011
1pm, Arts 2
‘Gender, affect and social belonging in Late Medieval England’, by Bronach Kane
Bronach Kane (Department of History, Queen Mary) on gender, affect and social belonging in Late Medieval England.
For further information see: Lunchtime Seminars (2011)
Thursday 17th March, 2011
1pm, Arts 2
‘Greek philosophy and the politics of well-being’, by Jules Evans
Jules Evans, (Centre Visiting Research Associate) on the revival of Hellenic philosophy in the politics of wellbeing.
For further information see: Lunchtime Seminars (2011)
Wednesday 26th January, 2011
6pm, Lock-keeper's Cottage
‘Emotional and Other Adventures of Mr Machine’, by Professor Jessica Riskin
Jessica Riskin is Professor of History at Stanford University and author of Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment. In this talk, she introduces her current book project, Mind out of Matter: The Animal-Machine from Descartes to Darwin.
Her draft paper is available here: Riskin on the Animal Machine
Friday 3rd December, 2010
12pm, Wellcome Trust
The History of Mental Health Policy and Practice in Post-War Britain
This series, running in December 2010 and January 2011, was organised by a Wellcome Trust-funded working group at Warwick University and Queen Mary, University of London.
Each seminar took place at the Wellcome Trust in London, from 12pm – 5pm.
3 December 2010
Service Users
Peter Barham, Diana Rose, Peter Campbell
17 December 2010
Psychiatric Science
David Goldberg, Hugh Freeman, David Clark
17 January 2011
Clinical Psychology
John Hall
31 January 2011
Policy and Care
Jim Symington, Peter Bartlett, Trevor Turner
Monday 15th November, 2010
6pm, Arts 2
‘The Psychological Construction of Emotion’, by Professor James Russell
James Russell is Professor of Psychology at Boston College, and editor in chief of Emotion Review. His work focuses on affective responses to space, emotional interpretation of faces, and children’s understanding of emotion. Along with his colleagues at the Emotion Development Lab at Boston, Russell’s work challenges existing psychological paradigm of universal emotional expression. He has suggested abandoning the concept of emotion as a scientific term, treating it as a folk concept instead.
Further details available for download:
James Russell Lecture [PDF]
Thursday 4th November, 2010
6pm, Arts 2
Embodied Emotions: X-Ray Eyes launch
One of a series of events as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Embodied Emotions’ project.
See also:
Embodied Emotions AHRC webpage.
Embodied Emotions leaflet [PDF]
X-Ray Eyes Launch
A child-led template for emotional literacy with Ali Campbell (Department of Drama, Queen Mary) and Clare Whistler.
Further details available for download:
X Ray Eyes Launch [PDF]
Saturday 26th June, 2010
9am, Arts 2
Wellcome symposium: Emotions and Health 1200-1700
Speakers: Nicholas Lombardo, William MacLehose, Michael R. Solomon, Angus Gowland, Erin Sullivan, Iris Montero, Vivienne Lo, Penelope Barrett, Penelope Gouk
Further details available for download:
Emotions and Health, 26 June 2010 [PDF]
Monday 21st June, 2010
6.30pm, Arts 2
In conversation with Ron Athey, Leverhulme artist in residence
Booking is now open for the final event in Ron Athey’s residency at the Centre for the History of the Emotions.
‘VICTIM ART’: PLAGUE, PERFORMANCE, AND METAPHOR
Speakers: Ron Athey, Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone, Martin O’Brien, Brian Lobel.
See also: Ron Athey Leverhulme flyer