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List members might be interested in the following workshop organised by our colleagues at Birkbeck, With all good wishes, Rhodri -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/our-research/birkbeckpainproject> *Undercover: Institutional abuse, covert investigations and history* This half-day workshop will bring together cultural historians and media practitioners to explore how ideas of authority and ‘truth’ are embodied in both the person recording the abuse and the means or medium through which it is exposed. *Speakers include*: Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck) on the interviewing of a rape victim in *Police*, 1982 Helena Goodwyn (QMUL) on W.T. Stead and the exposure of child prostitution in 1885 Joe Plomin (Panorama, BBC) on Winterbourne View, 2011 Matthew Rubery (QMUL) on Nellie Bly and *Ten Days in a Mad-House*, 1887 The event will be held at the Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD *16 April from 14.30 – 17.15. * Full details can be found here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/trauma/events/undercover-institutional-abuse-covert-investigations-and-history/ Places are limited. If you can attend, please email *[log in to unmask]* <[log in to unmask]> as soon as possible telling us very briefly why the event is of interest to you. We will contact you if we have a place. -- Dr Rhodri Hayward School of History Queen Mary, University of London LONDON E1 4NS Email: [log in to unmask] Webpage: http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/profile/4537-dr-rhodri-hayward *History of the Human Sciences *http://hhs.sagepub.com The HISTORY OF EMOTIONS email list is run by the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions http://www.qmul.ac.uk/emotions The Centre also hosts the History of Emotions Blog http://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/ To modify your subscription to this list, or to unsubscribe, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/historyofemotions