Free Thinking Festival 2019
Angry politics, what we can’t say, being diplomatic, weeping, emotion in music, film & TV
The Way We Used To Feel
From Neanderthals via Tudor England to Chartists - four historians on emotion in the past.
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Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?—The Essay, New Generation Thinkers 2019
What the BBFC archives tell us about censorship debates & a film depicting Salman Rushdie.
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The Unsaid
Sarah Moss, Una, Michael Richardson and Harriet Shawcross at the Free Thinking Festival.
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The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea—The Essay, New Generation Thinkers 2019
Michael Talbot tells stories of Turkish raiders, sea patrols and midwater borders.
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Where Do Human Rights Come From?—The Essay, New Generation Thinkers 2019
Dafydd Mills Daniel looks at links between the UN, Richard III and Disney's Jiminy Cricket
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Should Doctors Cry?
Does emotion have any place in relationships with patients in a more open age?
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Why We Need Weepies
From Bambi and Titanic to EastEnders - Matthew Sweet asks what makes us cry and why?
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The New Age of Sentimentality
Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Hewitt and Irenosen Okojie at the Free Thinking Festival.
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Does My Pet Love Me?
A Free Thinking Festival discussion with Nicky Clayton, Erica Fudge and Kim Bard.
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20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World
Aatish Taseer, Veronica Strang and Thomas Dixon at the Free Thinking Festival.
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Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers
From techno music in Berlin to the Glasgow ‘rag trade’, and divisive dams to fake news.
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Landmark: Audre Lorde
Jackie Kay and Selina Thompson on the influential US writer and civil rights activist.
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Feelings, and feelings, and feelings
Thomas Dixon, first director of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.
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Crimes of Passion
David Wilson, Sophie Hannah and Michael Hughes with Matthew Sweet at Sage.
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Anxiety and the Teenage Brain
Stephen Briers, Caroline Dower and Ceyda Uzun join Anne McElvoy at Sage Gateshead.
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Being Diplomatic
Anne McElvoy talks to Gabrielle Rifkind, William J Burns and Gabriel Gatehouse.
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'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get.
Suffragism, black activism & Brexit. Shahidha Bari chairs a Free Thinking Festival debate.
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The Emotions of Now
What's the most pertinent emotion in 2019 UK: Joy, anger, anxiety, schadenfreude or shame?
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How They Manipulate Our Emotions
An adman, VR creator, gamer, psychologist and Shahidha Bari at the Free Thinking Festival.
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Who Wrote Animal Farm?—The Essay, New Generation Thinkers 2019
Lisa Mullen looks at the contribution of Orwell's wife Eileen to his writing.
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Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century—The Essay, New Generation Thinkers 2019
Sarah Goldsmith on how the C18th craze for weight lifting fed into ideas about masculinity
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Why Trespassing Is the Right Way to Go—The Essay
Ben Anderson on fights over land rights, access to nature and care of the environment.
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Shopping Around the Baby Market—The Essay
Gulzaar Barn asks questions about commercial surrogacy and the way we view our bodies.
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Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama—The Essay
Daisy Black conjures up images of breaking bread and cannibalism in mystery plays.
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