Events
Past Events
Wednesday 5th February, 2020
13:00-14:30, Law 1.02
Lunchtime Seminar: Xine Yao, ‘The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling’
Xine Yao (UCL) will give a paper titled ‘The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling’ at 1pm on Wednesday 5 February at QMUL Mile End Campus (Law 1.02). All are welcome and lunch will be provided.
Thursday 21st November, 2019
18:30, Arts Two Lecture Theatre, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary University of London
Annual Lecture: Lyndal Roper on ‘Emotions and the German Peasants’ War 1524-25′
We are delighted that Professor Lyndal Roper (Oxford) will give the Centre for the History of Emotions Annual Lecture for 2019 on Thursday 21st November at 6.30pm in the Arts Two Lecture Theatre, QMUL, Mile End Campus. Professor Roper’s lecture is titled ‘Emotions and the German Peasants’ War 1524-25′. Tickets are free but booking is essential.
Wednesday 6th November, 2019
13:00-14:30, Scape 3.01, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary University of London
Lunchtime Seminar: Rob Boddice, ‘The New History of Experience’
Rob Boddice (Freie Universitaet Berlin and McGill University, Montreal) will give a paper titled ‘The New History of Experience’. All are welcome.
Wednesday 9th October, 2019
13:00-14:30, Scape 3.01, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary University of London
Lunchtime Seminar: Stephen Pender, ‘To Lose the Physician: Friendship and Medical Counsel in Early Modern Europe’
Professor Stephen Pender (University of Windsor, Ontario) will give a paper titled ‘To Lose the Physician: Friendship and Medical Counsel in Early Modern Europe’. All are welcome.
Wednesday 15th May, 2019
13.00, Arts Two 3.17, Mile End Campus
Lunchtime Seminar: Robert Schneider, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Resentment Paradigm (ca. 1935-1975)’
Robert Schneider (Indiana University) will give a paper titled 'The Rise and Fall of the Resentment Paradigm (ca. 1935-1975)’. All are welcome.
Tuesday 14th May, 2019
18:30-20:30 , Arts One Lecture Theatre, Mile End Campus
Should Universities Teach Wellbeing?
A panel discussion about university responsibilities in mental health services for students.
Tuesday 11th December, 2018
18:00, Arts One Lecture Theatre
The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib. The Evil of Banality and the History of Emotions
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, Jean-Jacques Courtine, will give the third in a series of lectures entitled, ‘The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib. The Evil of Banality and the History of Emotions’.
The pictures of the tortures inflicted by American soldiers on Iraki prisoners in Abu Ghraib jail in 2003 have become global icons that cannot be easily erased from our collective memory. But once you get past the visual shock and disgust they inevitably provoke, you discover the complexity, as well as the many paradoxes, of their construction and of the range of emotions they involve. Among them lies the disturbing fact that this unprecedented series of pictures gives a strange impression of déjà vu. This lecture discusses authors such as Hannah Arendt, Norbert Elias, Susan Sontag or Giorgio Agamben and shows that there are other, older pictures lurking below the Abu Ghraib snapshots, ghost images from ordinary American mass culture, “regarding, as Sontag would say, the pain of others.” And the most disturbing aspects of the Abu Ghraib photographs may well be that these distant images from a foreign war suddenly seem so close to home and that their strangeness feels so familiar.
Jointly organised by the School of History and the Centre for the History of Emotions.
All welcome but booking is essential.
Monday 3rd December, 2018
18:00, Arts One Lecture Theatre
Madness in Paris, Paris in Madness, Professor Jean-Jacques Courtine
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, Jean-Jacques Courtine, will give the second in a series of lectures entitled, ‘Madness in Paris, Paris in Madness’.
Jointly organised by the School of History and the Centre for the History of Emotions.
All welcome but booking is essential.
Tuesday 27th November, 2018
18:00, Arts One Lecture Theatre
Fear in an Age of Anxiety, Professor Jean-Jacques Courtine
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, Jean-Jacques Courtine, will give the first in a series of lectures entitled ‘Fear in an Age of Anxiety’.
Jointly organised by the School of History and the Centre for the History of Emotions.
All welcome but booking is essential.
Thursday 22nd November, 2018
18:30, Arts Two Lecture Theatre, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary University of London
Annual Lecture: Anger, Fast and Slow
We are delighted that Dr Will Davies (Goldsmiths) will give the Centre for the History of Emotions Annual Lecture for 2018 on Thursday 22nd November at 6.30pm in the Arts Two Lecture Theatre, QMUL, Mile End Campus. Dr Davies’ lecture is titled ‘Anger, Fast and Slow’. Tickets are free but booking is essential.