Is it taboo for academics to talk about their spiritual experiences? What can the humanities bring to the study of such experiences? Can we steer between the Scylla of religious dogmatism and the Charybidis of materialist reductionism when interpreting such experiences? I … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Carolyn Pedwell, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University and AHRC Visiting Scholar at The Centre for the History of Emotions, Queen Mary, University of London. With the rise of the … Continue reading
Dr Sally Holloway completed her AHRC-funded PhD on romantic love in eighteenth-century England at Royal Holloway in 2013. She is currently a Historical Researcher at Kensington Palace, and Affiliated Research Scholar at the Centre for the History of the Emotions. … Continue reading
The Centre helped to organize and fund an event in November, held at Birkbeck, called Stoicism for Everyday Life. It brought together classicists, philosophers and psychologists, as well 300 or so members of the public, to talk about how to … Continue reading
Dr Jennifer Otter Bickerdike (University of East London) delivered the first of the Centre for the History of the Emotions lunchtime seminars earlier this year. Here, she tells us how she came to her PhD topic, which explored memory and … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Dr Fulvio D’Acquisto and Samuel Brod, from the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry “The mind most effectually works upon the body, producing … Continue reading