{"id":1202,"date":"2017-01-10T15:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:29:46","slug":"1202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/news\/1202\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Living With Feeling in the Nineteenth-Century’ at Royal Holloway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>‘ on Thursday the 19th January 2017 from 18.00.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In 2015 the Centre for the History of the Emotions was awarded a grant of \u00a31.6m by the Wellcome Trust for a five-year inter-disciplinary research project entitled \u2018Living With Feeling: Emotional Health in History, Philosophy, and Experience\u2019. \u00a0The project, one of the first to receive a Wellcome Trust Humanities and Social Science Collaborative Award, will connect the history and philosophy of medicine and emotions with contemporary science, medical practice, phenomenology, and public policy, exploring the many varied and overlapping meanings of emotional health, past and present.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Thomas Dixon\u00a0will\u00a0introduce\u00a0the project and then be speaking on\u00a0\u00a0anger and rage in animals and humans. Jennifer Wallis will cover Victorian\u00a0psychiatry, and\u00a0explore, using asylum records, how doctors and patients discussed hallucinations.\u00a0\u00a0Sarah Chaney will be speaking on\u00a0psychotherapy, self-control and emotion in the late Victorian asylum. Tiffany Watt Smith will\u00a0be\u00a0talking\u00a0about laughter – in particular, the physiology of laughter and hats.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The evening will include a seminar from\u00a0each member of the team\u00a0and a question and answers session followed by\u00a0a\u00a0wine reception in the board room opposite the Picture Gallery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0WHEN:\u00a0Thursday, 19th January 2017\u00a0from 18.00\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>WHERE:\u00a0The Picture Gallery, (Founders Building Building) – Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, TW20 0EX\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>All students across disciplines are welcome, as well as interested staff members. It would be helpful if those planning to attend could register on\u00a0EventBrite\u00a0but we are happy for attendees to show up on the day without registering if this is not possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>For information on upcoming events (including the chance to register) please visit\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>centreforvictorianstudies.eventbrite.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor\u00a0Thomas Dixon\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0is a historian of emotions, philosophy, science, and religion at Queen Mary University of London, where he directs the Centre for the History of the Emotions. A regular contributor to radio and television programmes as an academic consultant, interviewee, and presenter, he was the consultant for Ian Hislop’s Stiff Upper Lip: An Emotional History of Britain, a three-part BBC Two series in 2012. The author of several books and numerous articles on the history of ideas, in 2008 he was awarded the Dingle Prize (for the best book on the history of science accessible to a wide readership) for his Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, also published by Oxford University Press. In 2014, he wrote and presented a fifteen-part series, Five Hundred Years of Friendship, for BBC Radio 4.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tiffany Watt Smith<\/span><\/b>\u00a0is a research fellow at the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions, and was also a 2014 BBC New Generation Thinker. Before choosing to pursue a path in academic research and writing, Dr. Watt Smith worked as a theater director for seven years, including stints as Associate director at the Arcola Theatre and International Associate Director at the Royal Court.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah Chaney<\/span><\/b>\u00a0completed her PhD at UCL in 2013, focusing on self-inflicted injury in late nineteenth-century British asylum psychiatry. Her background is in museums and public engagement. She is a part-time project manager (public engagement) on the ‘Living with Feeling’ project, and I also run the events and exhibitions programme at the Royal College of Nursing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jennifer Wallis<\/span><\/b>\u00a0is currently Lecturer in Cultural and Intellectual History at Queen Mary, University of London, where she teaches modules on British history and Victorian values, the history of psychiatry, and the history of the supernatural. Her main research interests are in the history of medicine and psychiatry and her first monograph, Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum, is scheduled for publication with Palgrave in 2017. At present she is working on a second book on the history of resuscitation from the nineteenth century to the present, which explores relationships between individuals, technologies, and spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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