Historians of emotion Thomas Dixon, Sarah Chaney, Emma Sutton, and Richard Firth-Godbehere take a fresh look at the worlds of feeling and emotion in the twenty-first century.
They meet emotional experts in the fields of AI, education, healthcare, and psychotherapy, and ask them what it means to live with feeling today. Should schools offer children happiness lessons? How would you feel about being cared for by a robot nurse? How can we make sense of the rapid expansion of childhood trauma as a cultural and psychological phenomenon? And can AI measure our emotions accurately, or even help us be happy? Join the Living With Feeling team for lively conversations and surprising insights into emotions past, present, and future!
Contributors include Philippa Perry, Giles Fraser, Katharine Birbalsingh, and many more.
Living With Feeling is produced by Natalie Steed for Rhubarb Rhubarb, and is brought to you by the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.
We’re grateful to the Wellcome Trust for their generosity in making this series possible.
To hear more episodes, subscribe to "Living With Feeling" on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, and find out more about our work by visiting The Emotions Lab website.
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Historians of emotion Thomas Dixon, Sarah Chaney, Emma Sutton, and Richard Firth-Godbehere take a fresh look at the worlds of feeling and emotion in the twenty-first century.
They meet emotional experts in the fields of AI, education, healthcare, and psychotherapy, and ask them what it means to live with feeling today. Should schools offer children happiness lessons? How would you feel about being cared for by a robot nurse? How can we make sense of the rapid expansion of childhood trauma as a cultural and psychological phenomenon? And can AI measure our emotions accurately, or even help us be happy? Join the Living With Feeling team for lively conversations and surprising insights into emotions past, present, and future!
Contributors include Philippa Perry, Giles Fraser, Katharine Birbalsingh, and many more.
Living With Feeling is produced by Natalie Steed for Rhubarb Rhubarb, and is brought to you by the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.
We’re grateful to the Wellcome Trust for their generosity in making this series possible.
To hear more episodes, subscribe to "Living With Feeling" on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, and find out more about our work by visiting The Emotions Lab website.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's the final episode of the series, but what have we learned about emotions past, present, and future? Thomas Dixon, Sarah Chaney and Richard Firth-Godbehere reflect back on what they have learned from the series, discuss what emotions might look like in the future, whether we should stop telling people “Your emotions are valid”, and what historians of emotion looking back on our era might think in a few hundred years’ time.
What will future people think about the roles of - for instance - psychiatry and social media - in shaping the ways we interpret and express our feelings in the 21st century?
Is there any reason to think that things will be any less emotional in the future, or that machines and AI will fundamentally change the way human beings feel?
Join Thomas, Sarah, and Richard to find out.
Thomas Dixon is Director of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, the author of Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears (2015), and previously presented "The Sound of Anger" podcast series. @ProfThomasDixon
Sarah Chaney is a historian of nursing and emotions. Her most recent book is called Am I Normal? The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist) @KentishScribble
Richard Firth Godbehere is a historian of disgust - among many other emotions - and the author of a sweeping and scintillating book entitled A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know. @DrRichFG
"Living With Feeling" is produced by Natalie Steed for Rhubarb Rhubarb, and supported by the Wellcome Trust. It is brought to you by the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. Find out more about our work at The Emotions Lab website.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.