The Columbia University Seminar on Affect Studies,The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE),and the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (ASSC)are happy to announce the upcoming conference at Columbia UniversityBetween the Lines: Discerning Affect and Emotion in Pre-Modern TextsFiona Somerset, University of Connecticut, KeynoteThursday September 29-Friday September 30, 2016Columbia University Faculty House, Seminar Room 1(entrance on 116th, between Amsterdam and Morningside HeightsRSVP to premodernaffect@gmail.com by September 19, 2016. No registration fee; however, please note what parts of the program (see below) you will attend in your email. Note that, if you would like to attend, dinner on Thursday night is $30.50 to be paid on arrival on Thursday by cash or personal check, and lunch on Friday is $20 (to be paid either Thursday or Friday with cash or personal check). __________________________ScheduleThursday Sept 29thArrival, 3:00-3:15pmWelcome, 3:15-3:30pmSession #1: Teaching and Learning Emotion, 3:30-5:00pmPatricia Dailey, Columbia University, moderator“Embarrassment: Losing Face in Rhetorical School Texts of the Central Middle Ages”Monika Otter, Dartmouth College“Swiðe swete to belcettan: Affective Eruptions in the Old English Boethius”Jennifer A. Lorden, University of California, Berkeley“Medieval Stupor”Thomas Prendergast, College of WoosterCoffee Break, 5:00-5:15pmKeynote Lecture: "Making Up People Between the Lines,", 5:15-7:00pmFiona Somerset, University of ConnecticutStephanie Trigg, University of Melbourne, introduction
Dinner at Faculty House, 7:00-9:00pmRSVP's required by September 19th_______________FRIDAY, September 30th.Arrival, 8:15-8:45amWelcome, 8:45-9:00amSession #2: Empathy and Compassion, 9:00-10:30amIrina Dumitrescu, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, moderator“Car je n’ay plus sens ne memoire: Feeling Other People’s Demons in Medieval French Theater”Andreea Marculescu, University of California, Irvine“Emotional Contagion in the Middle Ages”Beatrice Delaurenti, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale“Griselda’s Swoon: Historicizing Medieval Affect Alongside Emotion”Glenn Burger, Queens College and CUNY Graduate CenterCoffee Break, 10:30-10:45amSession #3: Images and Objects, 10:45am-12:15pmLauren Mancia, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, moderator“Performing Emotion in the Sculpted Deposition”Julia Perratore, Montclair State University“Tears for Abraham? The Sacrifice of Isaac in Anglo-Saxon Imagination”Shu-han Luo, Yale University“Feeling in the Margins in Fifteenth-Century Prayer Books”Sara M. Weisweaver, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignLunch, 12:15-1:30pm (please register if you would like to participate in lunch)Session #4: Affections in Community, 1:30-3:00pmPiroska Nagy, Université de Québec à Montréal, moderator“Private Emotions and Public Display: Normative Court Community in Castile-Leon, c. 1250-1350”Kim Bergqvist, Stockholm University“Can Emotions Make Law?: Collective Trauma, Apostasy and Legal Responsiveness in Fifteenth Century Austrian Jewry”Tamar Menashe, Columbia University“Jealousy (ghayra) in Pre-Modern Islamic Constructions of Masculinity"Marion H. Katz, New York UniversityBreak, 3:00-3:15pmSession #5: Affective Genres, 3:15-4:45pmStephanie Trigg, University of Melbourne, moderator“The Abstemious Affect of the Couplet Genre in Early Modern South Asian Devotional Poetry”Manpreet Kaur, Columbia University“Negative Interiority: Unruly Feelings in Premodern Korean Fiction”Ksenia Chizhova, Princeton University“Moving the Soul: Exegesis and Medieval Psychology in Simone Fidati's De Gestis Domini Salvatoris"Xavier Biron-Ouellet, Université de Québec à MontréalClosing Discussion, 4:45-5:30pmPoster and Registration procedure are here: https://indd.adobe.com/view/ccf32c21-ddf8-4e13-b2e2-6e c555aa329d
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
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