News
September 2020
What is the history of anger a history of?
Thomas Dixon’s article, ‘What is the history of anger a history of?‘, has been published in the latest issue of Emotions: History, Culture, Society. It is available as an open access publication on the Brill website.
August 2020
‘A Short History of Solitude’ BBC Radio 4
Professor Thomas Dixon presents a new three-part radio series, ‘A Short History of Solitude’, which is being broadcast on Monday nights at 8pm on BBC Radio 4. You can catch up on the series on BBC Sounds.
July 2020
The Sound of Anger Wins Two British Podcast Awards
The Sound of Anger was named overall winner of two awards – Smartest Podcast and Best Wellbeing Podcast – at the British Podcast Awards ceremony held virtually on Saturday 11th July.
Judges of the Best Wellbeing Podcast described The Sound of Anger as a ‘focused and in-depth exploration of a familiar and difficult feeling – featuring a strong host, as well as a creative blend of sound, drama, and expert analysis. The experimental approach to this genre of podcast feels both valuable and refreshing.’
May 2020
British Podcast Awards 2020
The Sound of Anger podcast series has been nominated for three awards at the 2020 British Podcast Awards: Best Wellbeing Podcast, The Creativity Award, and Smartest Podcast.
April 2020
Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency
Jules Evans’ latest publication, Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency, co-edited with Tim Reid, is now available from Aeon Press.
Developing Emotions Programme – Available Now
We are delighted to announce that the Developing Emotions programme is now available to download from the ‘schools page’ of the Emotions Lab.
Who Cares? Exhibition Available Online
While the RCN Library and Heritage Centre may be closed, you can still visit the Who Cares? A History of Emotions in Nursing exhibition virtually on the Royal College of Nursing website.
February 2020
Developing Emotions Pilot Programme Launches
The Developing Emotions programme, designed by members of the Living With Feeling team, is now being trialled in eight partner schools in the TKAT multi-academy trust.
You can follow our progress on twitter at @DevelopingEmo
‘The Enigma Emotion’ – Tiffany Watt Smith Lecture for 50th Darwin College Lecture Series
January 2020
Who Cares? A History of Emotions in Nursing
The Living With Feeling team has partnered with the Royal College of Nursing to create Who Cares? A History of Emotions in Nursing, a public exhibition exploring the emotions associated with nursing and care, which is now open to the public.
‘Schadenfreude and Drag Queens: Improvising Emotional Styles’
On 18th January 2020, Tiffany Watt Smith gave the keynote lecture ‘Schadenfreude and Drag Queens: Improvising Emotional Styles’ in a conference ‘Carving Out a Space for the History of Emotions’, at University College Dublin. You can listen to her lecture as a podcast here:
October 2019
The Sound of Anger
The Sound of Anger is the new Living with Feeling podcast series of features, drama, and debates about all things furious, vengeful, and irate.
Jules Evans’ Book Inspires Performance
Gisèle Vienne has created a time-bending piece of ‘physical philosophy’, partly inspired by Centre for the History of Emotions member, Jules Evans’ book The Art of Losing Control.
March 2019
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Lecture: Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings
Project PI Professor Thomas Dixon will give the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Lecture entitled ‘Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings’, at 22:00 on Friday 29th March at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival at the Sage Gateshead.
December 2017
Jules Evans is ‘philosopher guru’
Jules Evans was the resident ‘philosopher guru’ for BBC Radio 4’s recent series ‘My Life As A…’. You can listen to the three episodes he featured in using BBC Iplayer.
October 2017
Signs of Life: Photos
Signs of Life: Puppetry, Emotions, Embodiment and Empathy was a symposium funded by the Leverhulme Trust which took place on Friday 20 October at QMUL. Here you can see some photos of the event. We’ll be posting the video online soon. Watch this space.
David Saunders Wellcome Secondment Fellowship
Project PhD Student, David Saunders, begins his Wellcome Secondment Fellowship at the Science Museum, London this month. The Fellowship will run from October 2017 to April 2018 and will involve working with the papers and objects of the Burden Neurological Institute Collection, with a specific focus on experimental research, gender, and emotion in mid-twentieth-century British neuroscience.
September 2017
The Art of Losing Control by Jules Evans
Jules Evans’ new book The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher’s Search for Ecstatic Experience was published by Canongate books in April 2017.
July 2017
PhD Studentship on Medicines as Emotional Objects at QMUL
This PhD studentship on medicines as emotional objects is funded by the QMUL Life Sciences initiative and is a collaboration between Dr Deborah Swinglehurst’s NIHR-funded project, ‘Addressing the Polypharmacy Challenge in Older People with Multimorbidity’, and our Wellcome-funded project, ‘Living with Feeling: Emotional Health in History, Philosophy and Experience’. The application deadline is 31 August 2017.
Dissolving the Ego: Jules Evans on Ecstatic Experiences
Read Jules Evans’ article for Aeon magazine, ‘Dissolving the Ego’.
Jules Evans Recommends the Best Books on Ecstatic Experiences
Want to know which are the best books on ecstatic experiences? Read Jules Evans’ interview with Five Books to find out.
June 2017
Jules Evans on BBC Radio 3: Free Thinking
Miss Jules Evans’ excellent contribution to BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme on Wednesday 31 May? Never fear, you can listen again on Iplayer.
May 2017
Reviews of Books by Project Members Round Up
In case you missed them, here is a round up of recent reviews of books by members of the ‘Living with Feeling‘ project.
Helen Stark’s Book Chapter Published in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism
Helen Stark’s book chapter ‘”Rousseau’s Ground”: Locating a Refuge for the Libertarian Man of Feeling in Julie, or the New Heloise and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage‘ was published this week in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism: Gender and Selfhood, Politics and Identity.
April 2017
Jules Evans on Start the Week
If you missed Jules Evans asking whether art galleries and theatres can really help us come together, lose control and connect with something beyond ourselves on Start the Week on Monday 24 April 2017 you can listen again on the BBC Radio 4 website.
Thomas Dixon discusses Princess Diana, Prince Harry and Stiff Upper Lip on Today programme
If you missed Professor Thomas Dixon discussing Prince Harry, the death of Princess Diana in 1997, and the history of the stiff upper lip on 18 April 2017 then you can listen to his segment on the Today progamme website.
March 2017
Centre for the History of the Emotions Spring 2017 Newsletter
Our latest newsletter is hot off the press…
Rhodri Hayward’s article on Busman’s stomach published in Contemporary British History
Rhodri Hayward’s article on Busman’s stomach, ‘Busman’s stomach and the embodiment of modernity’, has been published in Contemporary British History.
Thomas Dixon responds to psychologist Agnes Moors on emotions
Professor Thomas Dixon is among several emotions researchers from different disciplines offering their responses to an important new article by the psychologist Agnes Moors in the latest issue of Psychological Inquiry.
January 2017
Funded PhD Studentship on ‘Living with Feeling’ Project
The Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London invites applications from outstanding post-graduate students wishing to pursue doctoral research into aspects of the histories of emotions and health. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2017
December 2016
Tiffany Watt Smith awarded funding from Leverhulme Trust
Tiffany Watt Smith has been awarded a £15,000 grant from The Leverhulme Trust to support director and designer of puppets Mervyn Millar to work on the project ‘Signs of Life’ at the Centre for nine months.
November 2016
Tiffany Watt Smith gives keynote lecture
On November 15 Tiffany Watt Smith gave the keynote lecture at the Organisationen Danske Museer (Association of Danish Museums) in Vejle, Denmark, on ‘Feeling Things: Material Culture and the History of Emotions’.
The Museum of the Normal at Being Human Festival Launch
On November 17th, researchers from QMUL and UCL took The Museum of the Normal to the Being Human Festival Launch where visitors could enter the ‘land of the abnormal’.
October 2016
Professor Thomas Dixon joins advisory board of Human Mind Project
Professor Thomas Dixon has joined the advisory board of the Human Mind Project
Publication Arising from Living with Feeling Grant
Elena Carrera’s book chapter ‘Emotions and Mental Illness’ has been published in the collection The Routledge History of Disease.
September 2016
Centre Newsletter
Our Centre Newsletter is hot off the press.
Emma Sutton at RCN
In August Emma Sutton gave a paper at the Royal College of Nursing.
August 2016
‘What is Emotional Health?’ Workshop
‘What is Emotional Health?’ was the launch event of the Living with Feeling grant, held on July 4 2016.