Evelien Lemmens is a PhD candidate on the ‘Living with Feeling’ project, starting at Queen Mary University of London in September 2016. Her research will focus on the relationship between diet, digestion and emotional health in Britain and the Netherlands … Continue reading
Thomas Dixon is Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. His new research – part of the Living With Feeling project – explores the history, philosophy, and experience of anger. In this, … Continue reading
Thomas Dixon is Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. His books include From Passions to Emotions (2003) and Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears (2015). Following on from a post by … Continue reading
This post by Professor Sneja Gunew is a slightly modified version of a guest editorial first published in a special issue of the journal Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture brought out from Kerala, India, in January 2016. It is republished here … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Markus Wagner and Sofia Vasilopoulou. Markus is an associate professor in quantitative methods at the University of Vienna. Sofia is a lecturer in politics at the University of York. It is striking how prominent emotions were in popular reactions … Continue reading
Dr Julie V. Gottlieb is Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, and the author of ‘Guilty Women’, Foreign Policy, and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). In this post, originally published on the University of Sheffield’s ‘History … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Chris Millard. Chris is a Wellcome Trust-funded postdoctoral researcher with interests in the histories of psychological categories, the welfare state, the emotions and the idea of ‘parity of esteem for mental heath’. His book, A … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Anny Gaul, graduate student in Arabic literature at Georgetown University Five years ago, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resigned after facing 18 days of mass popular protest. In following years, a succession of regime changes, … Continue reading
I’ve spent the last few days at a conference in South Korea, at somewhere called Paju Book City, yes a whole city (well, more like a town) devoted to books. Paju is a few miles from the North Korean border, … Continue reading
Peter Fonagy is is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and head of the department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London. He has been instrumental in bringing in a new form of psychoanalytic therapy called Dynamic Interpersonal … Continue reading