What are emotions? Can you die of a broken heart? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? What makes us feel love and hate, anger or joy?

From Victorian poetry to neuroscience, discover more about our emotional life at 'Heartfelt Emotions', a unique two-day symposium run by Wellcome Collection.

Taking place from Friday 7 to Saturday 8 September at Wellcome Collection (London), the event will bring together experts from the worlds of science, history, art and philosophy to explore the role of our heads and hearts in shaping our moods and behaviour.

Highlights:

• A reading of George Meredith's poem 'Modern Love'
• 'Don't go breaking my heart': Martin Cowie, Imperial College explores how emotions have such a powerful role on the body and behaviour
• Fay Bound Alberti from the Univeristy of Lancaster leads us on an emotional history of the heart
• 'Collective Emotion': lessons from the largest crowd on earth at the major Hindu festival Ard Kumbh Mela with Clare Cassidy, University of St Andrews.

Tickets are £25 (£20 concessions), including entry to events on both days and refreshments throughout (including lunch).

View a full programme of the 'Heartfelt Emotions' symposium. To book or for more information please call 020 7611 2222.

Wellcome Collection opened on 21 June 2007. During its first month of opening over 25 000 people visited and almost 1000 took part in public events and tours.

See also

• Wellcome Collection