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The Department of Drama combines its expertise in live art and socially engaged practice to offer new approaches to medical humanities and the history of emotions. We are committed to embedding arts-based methodologies and radical performance practices within medical cultures, offering new frames, approaches and modes of intervention through major partnerships and collaborations.
Initiatives
- Centre for the History of Emotions directed by Toffany Watt Smith
- Indigenous Research Methods by Paul Heritage (People’s Palace Projects)
Programmes
Projects
- Far Apart UK by Paul Heritage (People’s Palace Projects)
- Far Apart but Close at Heart Latin America by Paul Heritage (People’s Palace Projects)
- Greenscreening by Lois Weaver (Split Britches)
- The History of Emotions TED Talk by Tiffany Watt Smith
- Until the Last Breath is Breathed (Tate Britain) by Martin O’Brien
Publications
- On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock by Tiffany Watt Smith
- The Book of Human Emotions by Tiffany Watt Smith