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SUMMARY:The Enigma of Emotion - Dr Tiffany Watt Smith\, Queen Mary\, Unive
 rsity of London
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:How did people once die of nostalgia? Why did Victorians inven
 t boredom? And why did a self-help author in the 16th century encourage hi
 s readers to practice feeling sad?\n\nThe stories we tell ourselves about 
 our emotions are shaped not just by our personal circumstances\, but by pe
 rvasive and often invisible cultural and political forces.\n\nThis lecture
  will explore the field of the history of emotions\, and how the values an
 d ideas associated with emotions have changed – and continue to do so 
 –  intimately shaping the way we feel. \n\nDr Tiffany Watt Smith is the 
 author of three books about the history emotions\, Schadenfreude (2018)\, 
 The Book of Human Emotions (2015) which tells the stories of 154 emotions 
 from around the world\, and On Flinching (2013). Her books have so far bee
 n translated into 10 languages. Educated at the universities of Cambridge 
 and London\, she is now based at Queen Mary University of London where she
  is a Reader in Cultural History and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fell
 ow at the Centre for the History of Emotions. Her writing has appeared in 
 The Guardian\, the BBC News Magazine and The New Scientist among others. I
 n 2014\, she was named a BBC New Generation Thinker. In her previous caree
 r\, she was a theatre director. Her TED talk ’The History of Human Emoti
 ons’ has been viewed by more than 3 million people.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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