News
January 2017
‘Living With Feeling in the Nineteenth-Century’ at Royal Holloway
The team from the Centre for the History of the Emotions (QMUL) will be visiting the Centre For Victorian Studies for ‘Living With Feeling in the Nineteenth-Century‘ on Thursday the 19th January 2017 from 18.00.
Events Programme 2017
Our events schedule for 2017 is now available.
December 2016
Jules Evans in Observer magazine
Read Ryan Holiday’s interview with Jules Evans in Observer magazine.
Watch our Annual Lecture on YouTube
Missed our Annual Lecture? Never fear, you can catch up on YouTube.
Tiffany Watt Smith awarded Leverhulme funding
Tiffany Watt Smith has been awarded a £15,000 grant from The Leverhulme Trust to support director and designer of puppets Mervyn Millar to work on the project ‘Signs of Life’ at the Centre for nine months.
November 2016
Helen Stark gives two public talks at State Festival, Berlin
On the 4 and 5 November Helen Stark gave two talks at the public engagement event, State Festival, in Berlin where the theme was ‘The Emotional Machine’.
Call For Papers: The Globalisation of Autism: Historical, Sociological, and Anthropological Reflections
The Call For Papers for the symposium ‘The Globalisation of Autism: Historical, Sociological, and Anthropological Reflections’ at Queen Mary, University of London on 20th and 21st April 2017 is now open.
Tiffany Watt Smith gives keynote lecture
On November 15 Tiffany Watt Smith gave the keynote lecture at the Organisationen Danske Museer (Association of Danish Museums) in Vejle, Denmark, on ‘Feeling Things: Material Culture and the History of Emotions’.
Thomas Dixon: Public Lecture at University of Melbourne
Thomas Dixon will be giving a public lecture on Monday 14 November titled ‘Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears’ at 6.15pm at the University of Melbourne.
Thomas Dixon on Australian Radio
Hear Thomas Dixon on the ‘Mornings with Jon Faine’ show on 774 ABC Melbourne radio on Monday 14 November.
Tiffany Watt Smith’s The Book of Human Emotions and Donald Trump
Read all about how Tiffany Watt Smith’s Book of Human Emotions can inform our understanding of Donald Trump’s deployment of emotion in this article in New Republic.
October 2016
News round-up: Emma Sutton
Over the next few weeks we’ll be posting some news round ups. Today’s is about Emma Sutton, postdoctoral fellow on ‘Living with Feeling’.
Professor Thomas Dixon joins advisory board of Human Mind Project
Professor Thomas Dixon has joined the advisory board of the Human Mind Project.
News round-up: Tiffany Watt Smith
Over the next few weeks we’ll be posting some news round ups. Today’s is about Tiffany Watt Smith, postdoctoral fellow on ‘Living with Feeling’.
Publication Arising from ‘Living with Feeling’ Grant
Elena Carrera’s book chapter ‘Emotions and Mental Illness’ has been published in the collection The Routledge History of Disease.
September 2016
News round-up: Bonnie Evans
Over the next few weeks we’ll be posting some news round ups. Today’s is about Dr Bonnie Evans, Wellcome Trust-funded postdoctoral fellow at the Centre.
Centre Newsletter
Our Centre Newsletter is hot off the press.
Jules Evans on BBC Radio 4
Jules Evans was on the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The Anatomy of Rest’ this morning (27 September).
Registration now open – Annual Lecture
Registration is now open for our Annual Lecture! Book your free ticket on Eventbrite.
Tiffany Watt Smith at Salon London
Hear Tiffany Watt Smith discuss nostalgia and history at the Salon London event on memory this coming Thursday, 22 September.
Tiffany Watt Smith on BBC Radio 4
Tiffany Watt Smith has made two recent appearances on BBC Radio 4.
Autumn Term Events
The schedule for our Autumn term events is now available.
Richard Firth-Godbehere article in Gizmodo
Richard Firth-Godbehere has published an article in Gizmodo: ‘Cry me a Driver: Why Computers Fail at Detecting Emotions.’
Richard Firth-Godbehere in Guardian podcast
Listen to The Guardian‘s podcast ‘Brainwaves: The Science of Emotion’ which features the Centre’s Richard Firth-Godbehere,
August 2016
Save the Date – Centre for the History of the Emotions Annual Lecture
Professor Stephen Brooke will give the Centre’s Annual Lecture on 6 December 2016 at 6.30pm.
Tiffany Watt Smith at Edinburgh Festival
Tiffany Watt Smith will be speaking about her book The Book of Human Emotions at the Edinburgh Book Festival this Thursday 18th August.
July 2016
Tiffany Watt Smith at Latitude Festival
Find out about Tiffany Watt Smith’s contributions to the Latitude festival.
Forget cut-throat competition: to survive, try a little selflessness
Thomas Dixon has written an article for The Guardian titled ‘Forget cut-throat competition: to survive, try a little selflessness’.
June 2016
Catch up: Entering the arena: women, politics and twentieth century Britain
Catch with Entering the Arena: Women, Politics and Twentieth-Century Britain by listening to the audio.
BAVS Talks 2016, Thomas Dixon, ‘Dickens, Wilde and the History of Emotions’
Watch Thomas Dixon’s BAVS 2016 talk on YouTube.
Thomas Dixon on crying in sport
Thomas Dixon has written an article for The Conversation about crying in sport.
500 Years of Friendship
Thomas Dixon’s series ‘500 Years of Friendship’ is currently being repeated on Radio 4.
Emotion, Memory and the Mind
Thomas Dixon will contribute to the event Emotion, Memory & the Mind next month, taking place between 7 and 8 July 2016 at The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton.
May 2016
What is Emotional Health?
On July 4 the first event of the new Living with Feeling grant will take place: the project team will meet collaborators to discuss the key question of ‘What is Emotional Health?’.
Jules Evans in The Sunday Times
On May 15 The Sunday Times reported on the work Jules Evans has been doing with European Champion Cup winners Saracens’ Rugby Union team.
Entering the arena: Women, politics and twentieth-century Britain
On 22nd June, Thomas Dixon and Helen McCarthy will be participating in the British Academy discussion ‘Entering the arena: Women, politics and twentieth-century Britain’. The event is free to attend but registration is required.
BAVS Talks 2016 – An Afternoon of Live Talks by Leading Victorianists
Thomas Dixon will be participating in the BAVS event: BAVS Talks 2016 – An Afternoon of Live Talks by Leading Victorianists, taking place on May 10 at 14.00 at the University of Sussex.
April 2016
Jules Evans in Evening Standard
In this recent article in the Evening Standard Alice-Azania Jarvis argues that Londoners aren’t as cynical as they used to be…ably assisted by the Centre’s very own Research Fellow Jules Evans.
Richard Firth-Godbehere wins essay prize
Congratulations to Richard Firth-Godbehere who has won the Ceræ volume 2 prize for best article by a graduate student or early-career researcher.
Myth of the Stiff Upper Lip on the BBC
As part of his ‘Myths of Britain’ series exploring how art and culture influence ideas about Britain, Alastair Sooke examines the belief in the British reserve – discussing the importance of the 1945 film Brief Encounter with Thomas Dixon. You can watch the video on the BBC website.
March 2016
‘Ways with Words’ Literary Festival
On Sunday March 6, Thomas Dixon and Tiffany Watt-Smith spoke at the ‘Ways with Words’ literary festival, Keswick.
‘The Luxury of Tears’: Dixon, Evans and Watt-Smith in 1843 magazine
The Economist’s bi-monthly cultural magazine “Intelligent Life” has just been re-branded and re-launched as “1843”. Its first issue includes a feature by Matthew Sweet about the history of emotions, featuring contributions from Tiffany Watt-Smith, Jules Evans, and Thomas Dixon.
February 2016
Jesus Wept at King’s College Chapel
On 22 February Thomas Dixon, Director of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of Emotions, gave an address at ‘Jesus Wept’, a special sequence of words and music that explored the spiritual significance of tears and weeping at King’s College Chapel.
Welcome to David Lederer!
David Lederer will be starting his year with us as an EU Marie Curie Research Fellow this week.
January 2016
Publication of special edition of Women’s History Review
This week saw the publication of a special edition of Women’s History Review: Love, Desire and Melancholy: Inspired by Constance Maynard, edited by Jane Mackelworth, Angharad Eyre and Elsa Richardson.
Two New Colleagues on Wellcome Trust ‘Living with Feeling’ Collaborative Award
Welcome to our two new colleagues who will be working with us on our Wellcome Trust ‘Living With Feeling’ collaborative award.
December 2015
Radio 4 and Books of the Year
More coverage for Weeping Britannia, on Radio 4 and in 2015 Books of the Year…
November 2015
Tiffany Watt Smith on BBC Radio 3
Tiffany Watt Smith presents a documentary on baby laughter.
Weeping Britannia on ABC and in the Spectator
Thomas Dixon’s Weeping Britannia on Australian national radio and in the Spectator…
October 2015
Weeping Britannia reviewed in Times, THE, Guardian, Spectator
Dr Thomas Dixon‘s new book Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears (OUP, 2015) has been reviewed by Melanie Reid in the Times, Joanna Lewis in Times Higher Education, Thomas Hodgkinson in the Spectator, and John Gallagher in the Guardian.