Research Programs

Research at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100 - 1800) takes place within the following four programs:

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Meanings

This program carries out fundamental research into understanding what emotions were thought to be, and how they were understood, expressed, and enacted in Europe 1100-1800.
Program Leader:  Professor Bob White 
 

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Change

This program deals with mass or communal emotions, in particular mass and communal events which were emotionally driven, but had lasting political and social implications and consequences.
Program Leader: Professor David Lemmings

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Performance

This program carries out researche into how emotions were understood, expressed, displayed, transferred, and constructed through performing and visual arts. --music, opera, drama and art.
Program Leader:  Professor Jane Davidson

 

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Shaping the Modern

This program draws connections between the emotions history of Europe 1100 - 1800, and what is happening in Australia today, both in terms of European-Australian continuities and the survival of our European heritage, and in terms of the emotional investment of modern Australians in their European past.
Program Leader: Professor Stephanie Trigg