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
As we drove to our local cinema to see Inside Out, my five year-old son asked me: “So what is this film going to be about?” “Feelings,” I said, “the feelings that live inside our heads”. He thought for a … Continue reading
As part of her work on the history and meaning of tears and water at the Centre for the History of the Emotions in 2013-14, Leverhulme Artist in Residence Clare Whistler worked with film-maker David Wright to create this film, ‘The … Continue reading
Clare Whistler is Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions during 2013-14. Her artistic practice explores elemental forces through collaboration with both people and places. An opera singer, dancer, choreographer and community organiser, … Continue reading
Dr Thomas Dixon is Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. This blog post is the text of a talk he gave at the ‘Vessels of Tears’ event, curated by Leverhulme Artist … Continue reading
Hetta Howes is writing a PhD at Queen Mary, University of London on the subject of water and religious imagery in medieval devotional texts by and for women. She was one of the contributors to the ‘Vessels of Tears’ event on … Continue reading
We are very proud to make available this recording of a new work by composer and performer Kerry Andrew. It is a setting of verses from George Herbert’s poem ‘Praise (III)’, first published in 1633. The piece was commissioned as part … Continue reading
Natalie Steed is an audio producer who has created work for the BBC for six years on programmes including Night Waves, Free Thinking, Something Understood, Words and Music, and Soul Music. In 2013 she produced a BBC Radio 3 Sunday … Continue reading
The first of three podcasts produced by Natalie Steed provoked by Clare Whistler’s Residency at the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions in 2013-14. “I take things out of boxes, but need boxes to put them back in” … Continue reading
Dr Jennifer Otter Bickerdike (University of East London) delivered the first of the Centre for the History of the Emotions lunchtime seminars earlier this year. Here, she tells us how she came to her PhD topic, which explored memory and … Continue reading