Join us for a free lunch and a chance to hear about research in the history of the emotions from the QMUL Centre and beyond.

 

Wednesday 4 May, 1pm (Venue: Arts Two, 3.20)

Chris Millard (QMUL) Lies, damned lies, and Munchausen syndrome by proxy: statistics, infant mortality and the courtroom

Full abstract: http://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/emotions/events/lunchtime-work-in-progress-seminar-chris-millard/

 

Wednesday 25 May, 1pm (Venue: Arts One, 2.07)

Richard Ashcroft (QMUL) Emotional Utopias and Emotions of the Future

 

Wednesday 8 June, 1pm (Venue: Arts One, 2.07)

Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild (University of Cologne) "The Nerves of the Soul". Emotional Knowledge between Music Aesthetics and Medicine (1740-1880)

 

Wednesday 15 June, 1pm (Venue: Arts Two, 2.17)

Eva Yampolsky (IUHMSP, University of Lausanne and Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris)
The pathology of suicide: a historical study of doctrines and practice in 19th-century France

 

All welcome, no need to book. All rooms are at Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS

Nearest tube: Mile End. Campus map: http://bit.ly/QMcampusmap

 

Book now for Music, Medicine and Emotions, Friday 27 May, 11am – 6pm (£25/£15)

A symposium bringing together researchers working at the intersection of music, medicine and emotional wellbeing

http://eshop.qmul.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=34&catid=1&prodid=625  

 

Dr Sarah Chaney

Research Project Manager: Public Engagement

Part-time (Monday & Tuesday)

Living With Feeling: Emotional Health in History, Philosophy and Experience

Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions

http://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/emotions/