Events
Past Events
Wednesday 3rd February, 2010
6-8pm, Arts 2
Schooling the emotions: SEAL in historical context
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]
Speakers
• Ali Campbell – Introducing ‘Embodied Emotions’ and X-Ray Eyes
• David Spendlove – on emotional literacy in theory and practice
• Kathryn Ecclestone – on the dangerous rise of ‘therapeutic education’
• Thomas Dixon – on the Victorian roots of ideas about educating the feelings
With performance by Clare Whistler
Monday 23rd November, 2009
1pm, Arts 2
‘Love Detectors and Kiss-o-meters: The Role of the Erotic in the History of Deception Testing’, by Dr Geoff Bunn
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
Monday 23rd November, 2009
1pm, Arts 2
‘Biology’s Gift: Interrogating the Turn to Affect’, with Dr Felicity Callard
Dr Felicity Callard (Institute of Psychiatry, KCL) and Dr Constantina Papoulias (Middlesex University)
Monday 5th October, 2009
1pm, Arts 2
‘Towards a New History of Western Emotions’, with Professor Barbara Rosenwein
Professor Barbara Rosenwein, Loyola University (with a response by Professor Miri Rubi, Queen Mary, University of London)
Monday 1st June, 2009
1pm, Arts 2
‘Reinstating the Passions: Lessons from the History of Passion and Emotion’
Professor Louis Charland, University of Western Ontario
Friday 29th May, 2009
9am, CRASSH, University of Cambridge
CRASSH conference: ‘Sympathies and Antipathies’
‘Sympathies and Antipathies: Altruism and Emotional Response Across the Disciplines’
(Speakers include members and associates of this Centre.)
Poster available for download:
2009 CRASSH Conference
Wednesday 29th April, 2009
2pm, Arts 2
‘Medicine, Emotions and the Law’
Symposium on ‘Medicine, Emotions and the Law’.
Speakers: Dr Fay Bound Alberti, Dr Thomas Dixon, Professor Michael Lobban, and Dr Rhodri Hayward.
Respondent: Professor Richard Ashcroft
Monday 16th March, 2009
1pm, Arts 2
‘A History of Trauma: Anglo-American Languages of Suffering’, with Professor Joanna Bourke
Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London
Monday 23rd February, 2009
1pm, Arts 2
‘The Adrenaline Century 1900-2000’, with Dr Otniel Dror
Dr Otniel Dror, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Monday 12th January, 2009
1pm, Arts 2
‘Next Steps in the History of Emotion: Challenges and Opportunities’, with Professor Peter Stearns
Professor Peter Stearns, George Mason University