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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS

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🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket. Montreal and Helsinki. https://www.robboddice.com/ .. more

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Jan 25

The 2nd edition of the History of Emotions @manchesterup.bsky.social (2024) is "An essential work... truly a masterpiece" (Brad Irish) and "an essential introduction" (Jane Vaughan). manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526171177/ 1st edition available in Turkish, with Chinese and Greek forthcoming.

Manchester University Press - The history of emotions

The history of emotions - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of The history of emotions by Rob Boddice

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 8d

Turkish readers, this is published today! I haven't seen it yet. If anyone else has, let me know how it looks.

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Acının Tarihi: Duyum, Duygu ve Deneyim

Acının Tarihi: Duyum Duygu ve Deneyim - AYRINTI YAYINLARI - Rob Boddice - Ağrı hakkındaki bilgimiz nasıl üretilir geliştirilir ve yayılır? Tı

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 10d

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s... the only write-up required. The whole thing was insufferable.

US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America | Bryan Armen Graham

European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 15d

I missed this! This means a lot more to me than most academic reviews. Knowing Pain reviewed by Lynn Loheide www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sioe... @politybooks.bsky.social

Book Review | Knowing Pain

YouTube video by Lynn Loheide

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 16d

The Tylenol thing is just another way to put women and children at risk and to underrate pain. These guys are essentially "let the weak go to the wall" pseudo social Darwinists. It was stupid when Wallace did it and it is evil now.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 18d

since it's 25C in Berlin and I have covid, I'm kind of celebrating not getting a place via the marathon lottery

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 20d

looking up Andrea Železna, javelin thrower, to see if she is related to Jan Železny and finding that yes, she is, but not in the way I'd expected

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks. Feels very familiar

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 20d

Dose no. 8. The "mysterious" bug going around really ain't a mystery.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 20d

have a great day. I'm missing it with presumptive covid.

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 21d

It's been a useless site for ages anyway. Deleted.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 22d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 22d

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 23d

You had me at "reminder"

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 23d

Reminder Fellows of @royalhistsoc.org have til 26 September to vote in upcoming Council elections! 🗳️ There's lots of great candidates & all committed to the field. Obvs ideally I'd like to be your choice 😜 But vital to vote for who you feel will represent you & profession #skystorians #academicsky

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Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social · 24d

New open access article, based on my keynote at the HES conference in Sheffield : Towards an Emotional and Experiential History of Modern Education: Children’s Essays on the Cinema Around the First World War www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @hexhistory.bsky.social

Towards an Emotional and Experiential History of Modern Education: Children’s Essays on the Cinema Around the First World War

This article probes the potential of emotional and experiential histories of education. London children’s school essays on their experiences in the First World War, their stories, their dreams and ...

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HEXHandbook @hexhandbook.bsky.social · 29d

And from earlier this summer, Tessa Whitehouse on digital mapping as a tool for the history of experience sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/....

Digital mapping as a tool for the history of experience | Digital Handbook of the History of Experience | Tampere Universities

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HEXHandbook @hexhandbook.bsky.social · 29d

New on HEX Handbook, Beth Marsden on writing the historical experiences of Indigenous people. sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/...

Researching and writing Indigenous people’s historical experiences: a reflection on limits and possibilities | Digital Handbook of the History of Experience | Tampere Universities

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 9

Recently had to convert a piece into APA style and thought that seemed pretty hideous for a historian. But now I'm converting a piece into an esoteric Austrian style and it is wild. Wild, I say.

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HEXHandbook @hexhandbook.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join us @hexhistory.bsky.social at the end of the month for the 2nd Hex Handbook Distinguished lecture, by Corinne Saunders

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

yeah, and we all bite, eh? I think it's actually a special kind of ignorance combined with a special kind of arrogance. Lethal cocktail when well funded.

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

they don't learn because they still don't know we exist. By now, Nature has serious form.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

Or perhaps, encore une fois, avec sensibilité!

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

Oh, I am so imagining this

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

well, I'm not sure "emotion" is an appropriate category at all. One would need to assess the dynamic interplay of raison, passion, sensibilité and mentalité in the specific context of gendered humoral bodies. The whole premise of the study is bogus.

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

Aside from all the other objections, the emotion/rationality binary is a crock.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Historians may have words to say about this.

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

www.nature.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Historians may have words to say about this.

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

www.nature.com

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 19

Increasingly finding that my brain has no capacity for reading or following basic instructions.

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 18

Happiness has many more meanings besides and can't be divorced from the situated politics in which it is entangled. Pain is no less complex. One could argue that modern (since C18) happiness has been about economic satisfaction (serving whom?!); and pain (grief) is defined by failure to comply.

Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Aug 18

So many emotion terms have double meanings. Like *happiness* as "living virtuously" (eudaimonic) vs happiness as "the pursuit of pleasure not pain" (hedonic).

Nontrivial progress in the neurosci. of the 2nd is in scope for this era, I think. (How! Exciting!).

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Insightful reflections about the happiness concept and its semantic space may be drawn from psychological research. Scholars working in this field have conceptualized happiness on the basis of two approaches: eudaimonic and hedonic (Deci & Ryan, 2008; Haybron, 2008; McMahon, 2006; Ryan & Deci, 2000; Sotgiu, 2013;White,2006). Eudaimonic happiness is a concept originally defined by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics. He stated that happiness is only attainable by living virtuously. Similarly, on the basis of Stoicism, Seneca and Epictetus affirmed that the main path to happiness is through virtuous living, by facing and resisting temptations that could corrupt personal inner harmony. The eudaimonic trend was followed by Christian philosophers including Augustine and Tommaso d’Aquino. Conversely, hedonic happiness is a concept that refers to the Cyrenaic school of Aristippus and Epicurus, who considered the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain to be the main path to happiness.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 14

This must be the worst mugging ever at the University of Chicago.

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 14

Die Hard is perfect.
Annie Hall.
One, Two, Three.
Das Leben der Anderen.
Lawrence of Arabia.
Godfather 2.

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Aug 12

in your opinion, completely subjective, no metrics and no judgment, what are the best written movies of all time? I don't care if you have never seen a screenplay in your life, just which story itself is the most moving and complete and perfect to you?