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Lunchtime work-in-progress seminars

Wednesday 8th June, 2016

13.00, Various

The Centre for the History of the Emotions is pleased to announce our next four lunchtime work-in-progress seminars:

• Wednesday 4 May, 1pm – Chris Millard (QMUL) ‘Lies, damned lies, and Munchausen syndrome by proxy: statistics, infant mortality and the courtroom’ (Arts Two: 3.20)

 

• Wed 8 June, 1pm – Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild (University of Cologne), ‘The Nerves of the Soul”. Emotional Knowledge between Music Aesthetics and Medicine (1740-1880)’  (Arts One: 2.07-g)

 

• Wed 15 June, 1pm – Eva Yampolsky (IUHMSP, University of Lausanne and Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris) ‘The pathology of suicide: a historical study of doctrines and practice in 19th-century France’ (Arts Two: 2.17)

 

• Wednesday 22 June, 1pm – Richard Ashcroft (QMUL) ‘Emotional Utopias and Emotions of the Future’, Arts Two: Room 2.17

Lunch is provided from 12.45 and all are welcome! QMUL is a 5-minute walk from Mile End tube station. Arts One is building 37 and Arts Two is building 35 on this campus map.

Contact emotions@qmul.ac.uk for more information.