This is a guest post by Emelia Quinn and the third in this week’s ‘Romantic Voices’ series. Emelia is a Wolfson Foundation DPhil student in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. Her thesis aims to both establish a ‘vegan’ mode of … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Merrilees Roberts and the second in this week’s ‘Romantic Voices’ series. Merrilees is a second year PhD Student in English at Queen Mary. Her thesis explores ‘Reticence in the Poetry of Percy Shelley’ and … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Dr. Sarah Comyn and the first in this week’s ‘Romantic Voices’ series. Sarah is Literature Lecturer at Trinity College, University of Melbourne in Australia. Her research focuses on the transhistorical relationship between political economy … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Dr. Aleksondra Hultquist who is a Lecturer at Stockton University and an Honorary Researcher for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She has worked as an Assistant Professor in the United States … Continue reading
The modern Stoic movement, which brings together atheists and theists, is one example of a new friendship and alliance between people for whom metaphysical disagreements are less important than friendship and spiritual practice. The New Atheism wars are over, and … Continue reading
This page provides the conference programme. To read more about the conference, including how to register, and the ideas and themes behind the event, you can visit the main conference page. Wednesday 7th October, The Court Room, Senate House, UoL … Continue reading
Dr. Mary C. Flannery is maître assistante (lecturer) in medieval English at the University of Lausanne. She is the author of John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame, and is currently completing a book on shame in medieval English literature. … Continue reading
We are delighted to announce that registration for the one-day conference, ‘Tears and Smiles: Medieval to Early Modern’ is now open. From this page you can register for the conference and find out more about its themes and speakers. You … Continue reading
Histories and Theories of the Unconscious Saturday, November 22nd 2014, 10am – 5pm A day conference on the unconscious mind from its early-modern philosophical origins to its diverse articulations in literature, art and social policy, and its controversial history within the psychoanalytic tradition. Speakers: Angus Nicholls (Queen … Continue reading
Richard Firth-Godbehere is a Wellcome Trust funded PhD Candidate in the Medical Humanities at QMUL, trying to work out how revulsion came to be associated with the word ‘disgust’ in the middle of the seventeenth century, and how revulsion and … Continue reading