Here are some of the videos from the Stoicism Today 2014 conference, held at Queen Mary, University of London on November 29 2014. Thanks very much to all the speakers, to the QMUL Public Engagement Fund and the Centre for … Continue reading
For anyone who didn’t keep up with all our posts on the Queen Mary History of Emotions Blog this year, Thomas Dixon has made a selection of highlights from 2014 – a year of friendship and smiles, as well as … Continue reading
Eleanor Betts is a PhD candidate in the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London, researching Victorian representations of children who killed. Eleanor also writes a National Trust blog about the lives of servants in Ickworth House in 1935. 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
This weekend I saw a film called The Falling, shown at the London Film Festival. It’s directed by Carol Morley, and is centred on an epidemic of fainting at an English girls’ school in the 60s. It’ll be in cinemas … Continue reading
Dr Åsa Jansson recently completed her PhD at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. Her thesis mapped the re-conceptualisation of melancholia as a modern biomedical mental disease in Victorian medicine. In this blog … Continue reading
Colin Jones is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London, where he is one of the founding members of the Centre for the History of the Emotions. This post, which first appeared on the Voltaire Foundation blog, marks … Continue reading
This year I’ve developed and trialled an eight-part course in practical philosophy, called Philosophies for Life. The pilot was financed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council via Queen Mary, University of London. I trialled the course with three partner … Continue reading
Professor Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi is one of the world’s best-known psychologists, famous for developing the concept of ‘flow’. Inspired by the creative process of artists and musicians, Csikszentmihalyi spent decades researching the ‘flow’ states of consciousness that people can achieve when … Continue reading
Dr Tiffany Watt-Smith is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions and the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London. She is one of the BBC Radio 3 and AHRC … Continue reading