Digital Handbook of the History of Experience (HEX Handbook) is a peer-reviewed, open-access platform, to serve as a resource for historians and other scholars interested in developing the history of experience as an approach and as a field of field of study. In 2023 Tampere University awarded the handbook with “the science act of the year” prize. To celebrate the award the handbook editorial team has invited Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, one of the most prominent scholars in the field of history of experience studies, to give an open lecture at Tampere University.
Dr Smith´s talk, Friends Among the Dead: How to Write About Experience in Historical Research, explores, what does it mean to write a history of twentieth-century women’s friendships, not only as they were thought about and legislated against, but as they were experienced. (please see the full abstract HERE)
The event will take place 5 November starting at 14.00 at Tampere University´s main building, room A4. The HEX Handbook team would like to welcome all to join this exciting and intriguing lecture over a glass of sparkling. To join the event, please register by 1 November with this form: https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/HEX_Handbook_Distinguished_Lecture
Dr Tiffany Watt Smith
Tiffany Watt Smith is a writer and historian. She is author of the forthcoming book Bad Friend: A Century of Rebellious Friendships (UK: Faber&Faber, US: Macmillan, 2025), and three other books about emotions and their histories: Schadenfreude, The Book of Human Emotions, and On Flinching. She is Reader (emerita) in Cultural History at Queen Mary University of London, where she was previously Director of the Centre for the History of Emotions. In 2019, she won the Philip Leverhulme Prize, and her research has been supported by awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The British Academy and the Wellcome Trust. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2024.