Thomas Dixon and I are working on an AHRC-funded project called Philosophical Communities, which examines the history and contemporary rise of philosophy groups, clubs and associations. The Independent mentions the project in this piece today on the rise of philosophy … Continue reading
The History of Emotions email list regularly carries calls for papers and announcements of conferences in the field. I thought it would be useful to gather together into a single place a list of links to information about all the … Continue reading
The history of emotions starts 2012 in good health and promises to continue to be a thriving and growing area of historical interest, both among scholars and more widely in the year ahead. By my reckoning there were at least 20 international … Continue reading
Camilla Schjerning of the University of Copenhagen and Mara Ferreri of QMUL’s School of Geography are both giving talks as part of the Centre for the History of the Emotions’ lunch-time seminars’ series on Wednesday November 23, from 1-2pm in … Continue reading
I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at two excellent history of emotions conferences in the last couple of weeks. The Netherlands Historical Society took for the theme of their 2011 conference: ‘Cool, Calm, and Collected: The Dutch and their Emotions in Pre-Modern … Continue reading
I recently attended a seminar about laughter given by the intellectual historian Professor Quentin Skinner. I was looking forward to a light-hearted ninety minutes – a few jokes, some entertaining examples, and since thinking about laughing invariably makes me smile, … Continue reading
The Office of National Statistics published the findings of its national survey into well-being this week. The report is the result of 175 events across the country, attended by 2,500 people, as well as emails, postcards, tweets and blog comments, … Continue reading
After months of planning, last week it was finally time for the Centre’s one-and-a-half day conference on the theme ‘Mastering the Emotions: Control, Contagion and Chaos, 1800 to the Present Day’. This international and interdisciplinary gathering of scholars with a … 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
If emotions were Twitter feeds then schadenfreude would surely be ‘trending’ high right now. From Cheryl Cole’s surprise ejection from American X-factor to Manchester United’s drubbing at the hands of Barcelona, schadenfreude is the emotion of the moment or, at … Continue reading