Emotions and health at Queen Mary, London

*CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE EMOTIONS*

Registration fee: *£20 *(*£10 *students and concessions) Organiser*:
*Elena Carrera *e.carrera@qmul.ac.uk*

Symposium

*Emotions and Health*

*1200-1700*

26 June 2010

9:30-9:45: *Arrival*

9:50-10:00: *Welcome and introductory comments*

10:00-10:40: *Nicholas Lombardo *(Theology, University of Cambridge) –
‘Emotions

and Psychological Health in Aquinas’

10:40-11:20: *William MacLehose *(History of Medicine, UCL) – ‘Sleep,
Fantasy and

Fear in Medieval Medicine’

11:20-11:50: Coffee break

11:50-12:30: *Michael R. Solomon *(Hispanic Studies, University of
Pennsylvania) –

‘Non-Natural Love: Coitus, Desire, and Galenic Hygiene in Medieval and

Early Modern Spain’

12:30-1:10: *Angus Gowland *(History, UCL) – ‘Medicine, Psychology, and the

Melancholic Subject in the Renaissance’

1:10-2:10: Lunch (provided)

2:10-2:50: *Erin Sullivan *(History of Medicine, UCL) – ‘A Disease unto
Death:

Sadness in Early Modern Medicine and Culture’

2:50-3:30: *Iris Montero *(History and Philosophy of Science, University of

Cambridge) – ‘Angry War Gods, Epilepsy and Medicinal Hummingbirds

in the Spanish Atlantic,1571-1651’

3:30-4:00: Coffee Break

4:00-4:40: *Vivienne Lo and Penelope Barrett *(History of Medicine, UCL) –

‘Spirits and Emotion in Early Modern China’

4:40-5:20: *Penelope Gouk *(History, University of Manchester) – ‘Music
and Spirit

in Early Modern Thought’

5:30-6:30: Round Table Discussion

6:30-7:30: Wine


Registration fee: *£20 *(*£10 *students and concessions) Organiser*:
*Elena Carrera *e.carrera@qmul.ac.uk*