Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Towards a new history of Western emotions

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A quick flyer for an interesting evening which I am deeply hoping to get to, work permitting. PUBLIC LECTURE AND WINE RECEPTION. 5 October 2...
Sunday, 27 September 2009

a kiss and a cuddle...

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I came across this , by George Weber, recently about the Andamanese in the 1850's. They are a tribal society in the south eastern Indian...
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Sunday, 6 September 2009

assynt again

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Assynt is a place that looms large in my imagination for a range of reasons. Once again Colin Prior does the place justice with a wonderful...
Friday, 4 September 2009

Emotional event

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Something I received from Dr Thomas Dixon from Queen Mary University, London. It looks pretty interesting... Would that I had a day off to g...
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Monday, 31 August 2009

to live in fear

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What was it like in those early houses, those first settlements when man gave up the nomadic life and staked his future on agriculture? Was ...
Tuesday, 18 August 2009

that conversational thing

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is on tonight and i'm rather nervous. all these half baked ideas i trot out here may be held to serious scrutiny...
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facing up to emotion

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Some interesting news on the BBC at the end of last week, which i think lends credence towards theories of emotions being rooted in culture ...
Tuesday, 4 August 2009

talking about emotion

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You don't see a post for ages and then two come along at once... A very lovely though rather surprising email came my way yesterday invi...
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if music be the food of stone age love

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Apologies for being away, i didn't intend to... oh well! Anyway, before i stopped posting i had meant to post something about this . I...
Monday, 15 June 2009

some thoughts on thinkers thinking about emotion pt2

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A few weeks ago I ran a series of interviews with three academics, ( Prof Barbara Rosenwein , Prof Keith Oatley , and Dr Thomas Dixon ) talk...