The Third International CHE Conference 2018 at The University of Western Australia.
Dates: 14‒15 June 2018 (preceded by the opening keynote public lecture on 13 June 2018)
Venue: University Club of Western Australia, Building 107 (entry off Hackett Drive), The University of Western Australia (UWA)
Enquiries: email Pam Bond at emotions@uwa.edu.au
Registration: For late registration requests please email Pam Bond at emotions@uwa.edu.au
(Information on registration rates, accommodation and transport is listed at the bottom of this page)
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Open the conference program with abstracts
Conference Keynote Speakers
- Professor Andrew Lynch (Director ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, UWA): 'Literary Genres and Ideas of Periodisation in the History of Emotions'
- Professor John Sutton (Macquarie University): 'Historical Variability in Distributed and Collaborative Emotion-Regulation'
- Dr Katie Barclay (The University of Adelaide/AAIS, Aarhus Universitet): ‘Precarious Emotions: Quantification, Big Data and the History of Emotions’
Public Lecture Speaker
- Professor Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania): 'Finding Ourselves in the World: Emotion, Orientation, Place'
Read Part One of the keynote lecture
Read Part Two of the keynote lecture
Conference Background
Scholarship on the history of emotions is now rich and varied, and informed by multiple disciplinary perspectives from the humanities. This conference celebrates the many achievements of humanities emotions research and looks to new horizons in which it can be applied, seeking contributions that lend themselves to discussion about future directions.
WHAT are the theoretical and methodological challenges and opportunities for this field? What cross- and interdisciplinary connections can humanities scholars make through history of emotions research? How does humanities emotions research inform discussions in education and training?
HOW have populations from the medieval to the present conceived of emotions in relation to nature and viewed the capacity of the non-human world to experience emotions or define those of humans? How have feeling cultures created new sociabilities with nature in the pre-industrial period or anthropocene age?
HOW has humanities emotions research informed developments of new technologies, from the emergence of print to smartphones and robots, or shifted meanings in cultural spheres such as art, performance and online community formation?
WHAT contribution can humanities emotions research make in understanding how people have adapted to changes in the world around them, from the emergence of new religious practices, encounters with previously unknown cultures or today’s post-global anxieties? How have past populations envisaged future emotional worlds and anticipated challenges and opportunities for the future? How and why do historical and contemporary populations look back with feeling to past ages? How do emotional experiences and ideas help us understand identities, communities and entities with rights and agency? What applications does humanities emotions research have in community dialogue, policy and public discourse?
About the Keynote Speakers
Andrew Lynch is a Professor in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia, and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. He has written extensively on the medieval literature of war and peace and its modern afterlives. With Stephanie Downes and Katrina O’Loughlin he has edited Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and the forthcoming Writing War in Britain and France, 1400–1854 (Routledge). He is co-editor of the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society, and a General Editor of the forthcoming six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Emotions.
John Sutton is Professor in Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, and an Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders. His publications include Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare's Theatre: The Early Modern Body-Mind (Routledge, 2014) with Evelyn Tribble and Laurie Johnson; Review of Philosophy and Psychology, special issue, 'Distributed Cognition and Memory Research’, with Kirk Michaelian (2013); and many articles and chapters on the philosophy of mind, memory, cognition, and the embodied mind. He is Co-Editor of the series Memory Studies (Palgrave Macmillan), and is on the editorial boards of Neuroethics, Memory Studies (Sage), Philosophical Psychology and New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Palgrave Macmillan).
Katie Barclay is a EURIAS Fellow at AIAS, Aarhus University, and a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide. She is a historian of family life, gender and emotion, and has published widely in these areas. Her publications include: Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650–1850 (Manchester University Press, 2011); Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200–1920: Family, State and Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), edited with Merridee Bailey; and Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), edited with Kim Reynolds and Ciara Rawnsley. She is Co-Editor of the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society, and is currently completing a monograph on how to understand the collective emotions of eighteenth-century lower order Scots.
Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Visiting Distinguished Professor at La Trobe University. He was founder, and until 2005, Director, of the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. He is the author or editor of 21 books on topics in philosophy, art, architecture and geography. His work is grounded in post-Kantian thought, especially the hermeneutical and phenomenological traditions, as well as in analytic philosophy of language and mind. He is currently working on topics including the ethics of place, the failing character of governance, the materiality of memory, the topological character of hermeneutics, the place of art, and the relation between place, boundary and surface.
Conference Registration Rates:
Public Lecture - Free - RSVP required
Full 2 Day Registration - $140.00
Concession 2 Day Registration - $85.00
Single Day Registration -$70.00
Conference Dinner - $85.00
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