Katie Barclay is an historian of gender, the family, the self and emotions. She is currently a DECRA Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at The University of Adelaide, and is an editor of the journal 'Emotions: History, Culture, Society'. In this podcast, the first in a new 'Thinking with the History of Emotions' segment, Katie reflects on hope and creativity as a way of 'doing 2017 differently'.