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January 2010. We are now advertising a second Wellcome-funded PhD studentship attached to our project on 'Medicine, Emotion and Disease in History'. Application deadline 12 February 2010. Full details here.
January 2010. The Leverhulme Trust has made an award to Queen Mary to allow the performance artist Ron Athey to hold the position of Artist in Residence at the Centre for the History of the Emotions from January to May 2010. Events associated with this residency will be organised by Dominic Johnson (Drama), Thomas Dixon (History), and Ron Athey himself. Details will appear on this website shortly.
January 2010. The Centre has been awarded an AHRC 'Beyond Text' research grant to investigate 'Embodied Emotions: History, Performance, Education'. The Principal Investigator will be Ali Campbell (Drama); Co-Invesigator is Thomas Dixon (History); and Clare Whistler will be acting as consultant. Details of events will be published on this website shortly. Information is also available at the project's own webpage.
October 2009. We are pleased to announce the appointment of two international colleagues as our first Affiliated Research Scholars - Professor Barbara Rosenwein and Professor Louis Charland.
October 2009. Welcome to our new PhD students - Chris Millard, Elsa Richardson, Jade Shepherd, and Marialana Wittman, who are researching a range of topics in the histories of emotions, medicine, psychiatry, and performance.September 2009. Congratulations to QMUL Drama PhD student and Centre member Tiffany Watt-Smith, who has won first prize in the Journal of Victorian Culture Graduate Student Essay Prize competition for her essay ‘Darwin’s Flinch: Sensation Theatre and Scientific Looking in 1872’. The essay will be published in JVC 15.1.
September 2009. The Centre for the History of the Emotions has recently been successful in applying for a Wellcome Trust Enhancement Award in the History of Medicine, to support a five-year project on the theme of 'Medicine, Emotion, and Disease in History', beginning in September 2009. The project will include seminars, workshops and conferences, and will also provide opportunities for two postgraduate students to pursue doctoral research at Queen Mary.
About the Centre
The Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, launched in November 2008, is the first research centre in the UK dedicated to the history of the emotions. One of its key objectives will be to provide a focus for interactions between social and cultural historians of the emotions on the one hand, and historians of science and medicine on the other.
The activities of the Centre relate to research themes such as:
- Theoretical categories: passions, affections, sentiments, feelings, emotions
- The idea of expression: using the emotional body to read the emotional mind
- Madness: passions and pathology in medicine and psychiatry
- Well-being: happiness, public health, and emotions as political objects
- Difference: how have emotions associated with different races, sexes, and sexual orientations been experienced, categorised, and controlled?
- Religion: religious practices and regimes of emotion
- Law: the definition, control, and punishment of passions and emotions
To be added to the History of Emotions email list run by the Centre, please visit the JISCmail homepage for the list to sign up.
On this site you will find a list of members of the Centre, details of our past and future events, and links to related research centres in the UK and abroad, and to classic texts in the history of ideas about passions and emotions.