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’.

15th Sept 2015: The Science of Baby Laughter

Tiffany’s BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature ‘The Science of Baby Laughter’ was Pick of the Week. Listen to the full programme on IPlayer.

9 October 2015: Emotions at Wellcome Collection

Tiffany was in conversation about The Book of Human Emotions with Ann Karpf, Wellcome Collection. This was followed by an event specially curated by Watt Smith in the Reading Room with artists, puppeteers and the chance to engage in emotional objects. You can listen to the conversation on Soundcloud.

14th February 2016: History of Love

Tiffany appeared on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch talking about the History of Love. You can watch it on Vimeo.

17th February 2016: Hats and Edwardian Laughter Science

Tiffany gave a paper at Kings College London’s Research Seminar in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine entitled ‘Comic Business with Chapeau: Theatricality and mirth in Edwardian scientific culture’

7th June 2016: Book of Human Emotions

Tiffany’s The Book of Human Emotions was published in the US by Little, Brown. In the next couple of years, translations will appear in seven countries including Germany, Italy and China.

11th June 2016: Victorian Psychology Now

Tiffany Watt Smith gave a paper ‘The Great Pretenders: imitation and perception in the Long Nineteenth Century’ at the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies’ Victorian Psychology Now conference.

18th August 2016: Emotions in Edinburgh

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared Edinburgh International Book Festival talking about The Book of Human Emotions.