CFA: Doing Emotions in German Studies (Seminar sponsored by the Emotion Studies Network), GSA 2019, (Deadline 26 January 2019)

Erika Quinn Discussion

Call for Abstracts: German Studies Association 2019 (Portland, October 3-6, 2019)

Deadline for Submissions: 26 January 2019

 

Description:

This seminar aims to bring a twist to existing emotions studies by focusing less on claims about the nature or definition of emotions than on acts and scenes of investigating, practicing, or “doing emotions.” For instance, one thinks of the work of path-breaking historians and scholars who were compelled to craft new methods for exploring emotions in history, the arts, and culture. This would also involve aesthetic or performative situations where—to adapt J.L. Austin’s book on speech act theory—at issue is how to do things with emotions. At the same time, we wish to explore the unexamined angles from which to view teaching and researching emotions as doing emotions. Examples might include:

 

·       Teaching the history of emotions and emotions in the classroom


·       Emotions in the archives


·       Political emotions and emotional politics past and present


·       Early theories of emotion (Norbert Elias, Aby Warburg, et al) and emotion studies today

 

Proposals from 1500-present accepted; we encourage inter-/multi-disciplinarity. Seminar participants will be asked to submit a paper of 5-6 pages three weeks before the conference. Pre-circulated papers will be grouped into three themes (one per day of the seminar) and discussed in turn along with a short theoretical or methodological text.

 

Proposals:

Please submit a 300-word abstract of what you would like to contribute to the seminar and a brief bio. Seminar enrollment opens on 5 January 2019, and applications are due by 26 January 2019. Responses will be sent out on 31 January. Please visit the GSA website and apply electronically at https://www.xcdsystem.com/gsa.

 

Please contact conveners, Erika Quinn (equinn@eureka.edu), Derek Hillard (dhillard@ksu.edu), or Holly Yanacek (yanaceha@jmu.edu), with any questions. For more information about the 2019 German Studies Association Conference, see here: https://www.thegsa.org/conference/current-conference


 

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