{"id":915,"date":"2016-05-06T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=915"},"modified":"2016-05-19T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:30:13","slug":"915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/events\/915\/","title":{"rendered":"Date change: lunchtime work-in-progress seminar (Richard Ashcroft)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note that the date of this event has changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please join us for our work-in-progress seminar on\u00a0Wednesday 22 June, 1pm (Arts Two: Room 2.17)<\/strong> where\u00a0<\/strong>Richard Ashcroft\u00a0(QMUL) will give a paper titled:\u00a0The Future of Emotions and Emotional Utopia<\/em><\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/p>\n

If we start from the presumption that emotions have histories, then we have to accept that they have futures too. Emotions appear, disappear, mutate, and can, perhaps, be created and destroyed. In this conversation piece (its too early to call it work in progress!) I would like to explore how we can talk and think about emotional futures. In particular I\u2019m interested in ideal emotional futures \u2013 emotional utopias, utopias of the emotions. I am starting work on a\u00a0book, tentatively entitled Utopian Biofutures, which explores the ethics, politics and imaginaries of biological enhancement in humans. One feature of most discussions of this theme is the priority given to reason and intelligence; however we are seeing an emergent discussion about moral enhancement, and about enhancement of our abilities to control and modify our romantic and sexual entanglements. On one \u2013 very important \u2013 level we can read these accounts symptomatically. But we can also take them at face value as explorations of our wants, and what we want to want, and of the futures of our wants, and the futures we want.<\/p>\n

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All are welcome and lunch will be provided from 12.45. Arts Two is number 35 on this campus map and coloured purple<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The full programme during May and June is as follows:<\/p>\n

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  • 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)’ \u00a0(Arts One: 2.07-g)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • Wed 15 June, 1pm \u2013 Eva Yampolsky (IUHMSP, University of Lausanne and Centre Alexandre Koyr\u00e9, Paris) \u2018The pathology of suicide: a historical study of doctrines and practice in 19th-century France\u2019 (Arts Two: 2.17)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • Wednesday 22 June, 1pm \u2013 Richard Ashcroft (QMUL) \u2018Emotional Utopias and Emotions of the Future\u2019, (Arts Two: Room 2.17)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Richard Ashcroft\u00a0(QMUL),\u00a0The Future of Emotions and Emotional Utopia,\u00a0<\/em>will now take place on\u00a0Wednesday 22 June (note change of date), 1pm (Arts Two: Room 2.17)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}