As part of Proms: Extra, a series of talks exploring emotional themes in the arts, Thomas Dixon and Wiebke Thormählen will be discussing mood: how composers have engaged with themes of sentimentality, happiness and sorrow in their work and how writers have explored these emotions in novels and poetry. Catch Thomas on BBC Radio 3 on 15 July at 17. 45
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Sarah Chaney on ‘Woman’s Hour’, BBC Radio 4
Listen again to ‘Woman’s Hour’ to hear Sarah Chaney talking about her new book Psyche on the Skin. Sarah was on the programme on 6 February 2017.
Events Programme 2017
2017 Events
Lunchtime Seminars
All are welcome to our lunchtime seminars. There’s no need to book and lunch is provided.
Wednesday 25 January, 1pm
‘Colonial anxieties and the making of British power in India.’
Mark Condos (Queen Mary University of London). Venue: Arts Two, Room 3.17.
Wednesday 1 March, 1pm
‘”Making yourself emotionally available is a different type of work”: The emotional labour of addressing domestic abuse in primary care’
Susanna Dowrick (Queen Mary University of London). Venue: Arts Two, Room 2.18.
Wednesday 15 March, 1pm
‘Face transplants: history, ethics and emotion’
Fay Bound Alberti. Venue: Arts Two, Room 2.18
Wednesday 24 May, 1pm
‘History of Ambition’
Javier Moscoso (Spanish National Research Council). Venue: Arts One, room 1.36. *Please note this date has changed from original advertisements*
Arts Two is building 35 on this campus map. Mile End is the closest tube station, on the District, Hammersmith and City and Central lines.
Evening Events
Free evening talks on the history of the emotions. Talks start at 6.30pm. All welcome.
Tuesday 21 March, 6pm
Emotions, Identity and the Supernatural: The Concealed Revealed Project
Owen Davies (University of Hertfordshire) and Ceri Houlbrook (University of Hertfordshire). Venue: The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury. Attendance is free but please register on Eventbrite.
Thursday 20 April, 6pm
Great Minds Don’t Always Think Alike
Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes
Venue: Arts Two Lecture Theatre. Attendance is free but please register on Eventbrite.
Thursday 4 May, 6pm
Belief in an Age of Suspense: The Changing Emotional Landscape of the UFO
Greg Eghigian (Penn State University) Venue: The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury. Attendance is free but please register on Eventbrite.
Tuesday 6 June, 6pm.
Mood Shifts: A Sonic Repertoire
Mary Cappello (University of Rhode Island). Venue: The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury. Attendance is free but please register on Eventbrite.
Conferences and Workshops
Monday 20 March
‘Stress and Social Economic Decision-Making’. Venue: QMUL. Contact Francesca Cornaglia for more information.
Thursday 20 April – Friday 21 April
‘The Globalisation of Autism: Historical, Sociological, and Anthropological Reflections‘. Venue: Arts Two, QMUL. Contact Bonnie Evans for more information.
Thomas Dixon on ‘Making History’ BBC Radio 4
On August 2nd Thomas Dixon contributed to the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Making History‘. Thomas was discussing the history of men crying. Listen again on Iplayer.
‘Ways with Words’ Literary Festival
On Sunday March 6, Thomas Dixon and Tiffany Watt-Smith spoke at the ‘Ways with Words’ literary festival, Keswick. Thomas shed new light on the act of weeping, the changing nature of Britishness and the ever-shifting ways in which we express and understand our emotional lives, while Tiffany revealed that no one really felt emotions before 1830 – instead they felt ‘passions’ or ‘accidents of the soul’.
The festival continues until March 13 and you can find out about further events in their programme, available on their website.
Photo from www.keswickplus.co.uk
Jane Mackelworth
19th / 26th November, Emotional States: Film, Melodrama, Gender
Two film screenings and a symposium, which will consider the heightened world of film melodrama as a site for the gendered representation of intense emotional experience. The Seventh Veil uses psychiatry, a popular theme of 1940s cinema, to explore female consciousness, trauma and romantic love, while the male-centred Bigger Than Life constructs a baroque, disordered vision of suburban America and family life in the 1950s. A panel of film scholars will consider questions of affect, aesthetics, genre and gender.
Wednesday 19th November: The Seventh Veil (1945), introduced by Peter Evans
Wednesday 26th November: Bigger Than Life (1956), introduced by Andrew Asibong
Panel discussion: Andrew Asibong (Birkbeck), Peter Evans (QMUL), Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck), followed by discussion. Chair: Adrian Garvey (QMUL).
See here for more information and to register.
‘Organ transplants in Spain: the patients and the construction of the emotions’, by Alina Danet
Alina Danet, (Andalusian School of Public Health)
This paper discussed the emotions surrounding organ transplantation in Spain over the last 30 years, analysing media descriptions and fictional representations of transplant patients and their experiences.
For further information see: Lunchtime Seminars (2011)