Events

Past Events

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

 

Monday 24th November, 2008

1pm, Arts 2

‘The Emotion of Objectivity’, with Dr Paul White

Dr Paul White, University of Cambridge

Friday 21st November, 2008

4pm-6pm, Francis Bancroft building, room 3.28

Workshop on Roger Smith’s Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature

Workshop on Roger Smith’s Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature (2007)