Tiffany is an experienced public speaker, regularly invited to talk at universities, festivals, libraries, museums, banks and more.

The History of Human Emotions

17 November 2025, London, Conway Hall

Tiffany will speak at a special 5×15 event celebrating the Leverhulme Trust at Conway Hall, London. More details coming soon…

16 March 2026, Toronto Public Library

Tiffany will speak about Bad Friend at Toronto Public Library’s Salon series ‘Connections’. Details coming soon…

RECENT

2025

01 August 2025, Oxfordshire

Tiffany spoke to Alice Wroe about Bad Friend at Wilderness Festival.

02 July 2025, London

Tiffany spoke to poet and memoirist Amy Key about Bad Friend at Waterstones, Crouch End 

12 June 2025, Bristol

Tiffany spoke about Bad Friend at The Small City Bookshop, Bristol

24 April 2025, London

Tiffany ran a sold-out ‘Friendship Cafe’ with the artist Lois Weaver to celebrate the launch of Bad Friend, at Faber’s offices at The Bindery

30 January 2025, London

Tiffany took part in a panel about trust at The Age of Mistrust?, a late event at the British Academy 

2024

20 November 2024, Oxford

Tiffany spoke about sleep as a public performance at ‘Conscious Sleep’, a public symposium exploring the art and science of sleep at the University of Oxford.

5 November 2024, Tampere, Finland

Tiffany gave the inaugural HEX Handbook Distinguished Lecture at the Centre for the History of Experience at Tampere University, Finland. You can read a written version of the talk here. 

1 February 2024, Potsdam, Germany

Tiffany spoke about ethics and historical research at a gathering of historians of emotion called ‘A Matter of Feeling?’, at the Einstein Forum, in Potsdam Germany. 

2023

29-30 September 2023, Warsaw, Poland

Tiffany gave the keynote at the ‘Fair Design’ conference, at Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts, speaking about emotional factory workers in early 20th century America

28 September 2023, London

Tiffany was the keynote speaker at Wunderman Thompson’s b2b thought leadership conference, ‘Transform’. Her talk was about joy and rebelliousness. 

15 June 2023, London

Tiffany spoke about making friends with an AI chatbot and the histories of human-computer friendships at  ‘Intimacy by Design’, Kings College Digital Futures Institute

14 Mar 2023, London

Tiffany gave the keynote at London International Eating Disorders Conference, about food-emotions, including comfort, loneliness and abandonment.

2020

17 February 2020, Cambridge

Tiffany was invited to give one of the lectures in the 25th year of the prestigious Darwin College Cambridge Lecture series, that year on the theme of ‘Enigmas’. She spoke about hard-to-read or opaque emotional states in an age of transparent feelings, and you can watch it here. The lecture was published here.

18 January 2020, Dublin

Tiffany gave the keynote at ‘Improvising Emotional Styles’ Conference at the University College Dublin, speaking about irony and Schadenfreude. You can listen to it here. 

2019

22 November 2019, Milan, Italy

Tiffany spoke at the international conference of Intesa Sanpaolo bank. The talk was about trust and was reported in The Independent

26 May 2019, London

Tiffany gave a lecture at the The Weekend University’s ‘A Day on Emotional Intelligence’

1 March 2019, Oxford

Tiffany was keynote speaker at ‘Language Acts and Worldmaking’ conference, Oxford Brookes University. She spoke about language and histories of emotion.  

29 September 2019, Turin, Italy

Tiffany gave a lecture on ‘The Dark Emotions’ at Torino Spiritualità 2019. You can listen to it here.

14 February 2019, London

Tiffany gave a short lecture about Schadenfreude at Salon London late at Tate Modern

2018

7 December 2018, London 

Tiffany spoke about her research on sleep at the Royal Society. You can listen here

12 February 2018, British Museum

Tiffany discussed the future of knowledge with Lisa Feldmann Barrett and David Lammy, at the British Museum.

2017

11 July 2017, London

Tiffany spoke at the Museum of London’s ‘Emotions Salon’, along with poet Jay Bernard, and writers Megan Nolan and Katherine Angel

2016

24 November 2016, London

Tiffany spoke emotional contagion at Barts Hospital, Museum of the Normal

22 September 2016, London

Tiffany spoke about ‘Nostalgia’ at Salon London at the Hospital Club.

18 August 2016, Edinburgh

Tiffany spoke about The Book of Human Emotions at Edinburgh International Book Festival

22 July 2016, Cheshire

Tiffany gave a lecture on happiness at Blue Dot Festival

14 July 2016, Suffolk

Tiffany gave a talk on the theme ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ at Latitude Festival

16 February 2016, Brighton

Tiffany spoke about emotions at Brighton Science Festival, ‘Inside Out’

5 February 2016, London

Tiffany gave a guest lecture about emotions at Wellcome Collection Friday Night Late.

2015

12 November 2015, London

Tiffany gave a workshop lecture on ‘The Value of Sadness’ at the School of Life

29 October 2015, London

Tiffany spoke about her new book, The Book of Human Emotions, at the Wellcome Collection

23 October 2015, London

Tiffany was part of a panel at the Inside/Out Festival at Somerset House

9 October 2015, Lichfield

Tiffany spoke about her new book, The Book of Human Emotions, at Lichfield Literature Festival

4 October 2015, London

Tiffany spoke about her new book, The Book of Human Emotions, at Wimbledon Book Festival he Book of Human Emotions

23 September 2015, London

Tiffany spoke about The Book of Human Emotions at, 5 x 15 at The Tabernacle

22 September 2015, London

Tiffany gave a lecture-workshop at The School of Life on ‘The Secret History of Your Emotions’

13 September 2015, London

Tiffany spoke about her new book, The Book of Human Emotions, at Kings Place Festival

10 July 2015, London

Tiffany spoke about her book On Flinching at the Barbican Art Gallery, as part of Siobhan Davies’ residency