The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in collaboration with The University of Western Australia, The University of Adelaide, The University of Melbourne, The University of Sydney and The University of Queensland, seeks to appoint nine exceptional postdoctoral researchers to contribute to research projects Read more…
Anastasia Scrutton writes: The latest number of Modern Theology is a special issue edited by Sarah Coakley on the theme of ‘Faith, Rationality and the Passions’. Its main focus is the intellectual histories of feeling and passion, and it includes articles on topics ranging from Plato’s Cratylus to modern neuroscience, Read more…
Two memorable presentations from Anastasia Scrutton (compassion, empathy and the intellect) and Simon James (narrative, memory and Dickens) provided a splendid opportunity to see how two apparently loosely-connected enquiries can converge fruitfully in a free-wheeling discussion. (Corinne Saunders, chairing, was absolutely right to insist that we hear both presentations first Read more…
Jayne Sellick writes: A new and exciting exhibition is currently being held at Newcastle’s Centre for Life until March 25th 2011. ‘Abnormal: Towards a Scientific Model of Disability’ was developed by Ju Gosling as part of her residency at the National Institute of Medical Research, funded by the Wellcome Trust. Read more…
Anastasia Scrutton writes: It has been about a month since I submitted my book, Thinking through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility, to the publisher, which seems like a good time to reflect on why I wrote it, on my hopes for it, and on my sense of the kinds of Read more…
I am delighted to have been invited by Anthony Morgan to give the inaugural talk in his seminar series for the Newcastle Philosophical Society entitled “Schizophrenia 100 Years On”. My talk “Schizophrenia: 100 Years of Controversy” will start at 7pm in the Cedar Room, Upstairs at The Dog and Parrot, Read more…
Emotions, Emotional Regulation and Spirituality: A Psychological Perspective Dr Jocelyn Bryan, St John’s College, Durham 4.30-6pm, Tuesday 22 February 2011 Dun Cow Cottage, Dun Cow Lane, Durham Psychologically emotions can be conceived as having a number of core components: an event, interpretation, appraisal, physiological reactivity, action potential and behavior. These Read more…
‘The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics’ International Interdisciplinary Conference Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease February 17 and 18 Hatfield College, Durham University, UK This conference will discuss the history of the relationship between aesthetics and medical understandings Read more…
“Literature Between Medicine and Religion: Herder’s Aesthetics of Touch and the Emerging Field of Medical Humanities,” by CMH researcher Michael Mack, has recently been published in volume 94 of Neophilologus. The abstract reads as follows: “This article uses a reading of Herder’s early essay Sculpture to locate Herder’s place within Read more…
Inventions of the Text Seminar Series 2010-2011: The Uses of Literature Imaginative Worlds: Medical Humanities and ‘the uses of literature’ Corinne Saunders, Michael Mack & Angela Woods: Centre for Medical Humanities Tuesday 25 January, 6.30 pm (please note later start time) Hallgarth House, Hallgarth Street, Durham. All welcome. The Medical Read more…