Subjectivity, Self-Narratives and the History of Emotions
International Symposium Schedule
British Academy Rising Stars Event led by Laura Kounine
Terrace Room, Bramber House, University of Sussex, 18 January 2019
9.00-9.15 Registration
9.15-9.30 Welcome and Introduction – Laura Kounine
9.30-10.30 Session 1 – Chair: Laura Kounine (Sussex)
9.30-10.00 Lyndal Roper “Writing Biography: Theology and Subjectivity”
10.00-10.30 Thomas Dixon “What is the History of Anger a History of?”
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break and Pastries
11.00-12.15 Session 2 – Chair: Eva Johanna Holmberg (Helsinki/QMUL)
11.00-11.30 Tim Hitchcock “Historical Simulacra: Breathing Life into the Digital Dead”
11.30-12.00 Rhodri Hayward “R. G. Collingwood, Magic Shoes and Plasticine: Thinking about a Material History of the Inner Life”
12.00-12.15 Discussion of morning sessions
12.15-1.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Session 3 – Chair: Lucy Noakes (Essex)
13.30-14.00 Bill Reddy “Crises of Subjectivity: Early Modern Turning Points in the History of the Self.”
14.00-14.30 Ute Frevert “Emotions as Individual and Social”
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break and Biscuits
15.00-16.00 Session 4 – Chair: Hester Barron (Sussex)
15.00-15.30 Claire Langhamer “Feelings, Work and Selfhood”
15.30- 16.00 Penny Summerfield “Seeking the Subjective in the Past: Historians, Evidence and Personal Narratives”
16.00-16.15 Break
16.15-17.00 Roundtable, chaired by Laura Kounine, with comments from Ute Frevert, Claire Langhamer and Bill Reddy
17.00-18.00 Book launch for Laura Kounine’s ‘Imagining the Witch: Emotions, Gender and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany’ and wine reception
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