This is a guest post by Chris Millard. Chris is a lecturer in history at the University of Sheffield, and has just completed his Wellcome Trust-funded postdoctoral research at QMUL with interests in the histories of psychological categories, the welfare … Continue reading
Dr Chris Millard is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions. His PhD explored the history of attempted suicide as a cry for help, and he is now researching the history of … Continue reading
Back in March (2013), the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London staged the first ever Carnival of Lost Emotions. Some details about that night can be found here. The event was filmed, and this … Continue reading
Dr Chris Millard recently completed his PhD at the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions, on self-poisoning, self-damage and the “cry for help”. He was one of the brains behind the recent ‘Carnival of Lost Emotions’ first presented … Continue reading
The Commission on Assisted Dying (COAD) published its report this month, recommending ‘providing the choice of assisted dying for terminally ill people.’ The report’s proposed changes focus specifically and exclusively upon ‘terminal illness’. David Cameron indicated prior to the report’s … Continue reading
Control, Contagion and Chaos @ Queen Mary, 16-17 June, 2011 For most conferences, ‘interdisciplinary’ is little more than an aspirational adjective. There is normally very little, if any, pushing at the boundaries of established departmental norms. This was certainly not … Continue reading