The 2022 Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS) Conference will be held in person in Perth, Australia at the University of Western Australia and online via Zoom from 27–30 […]
The Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800 (CHE) has announced a new Society for the History of Emotions (SHE). It is a professional association for scholars interested in emotions as historically and […]
From their first entrance in, even to their final end, the lives of our early modern forebears were bound up with matter: with material, tangible, resonant things. Utensils made of wood and pewter, clothing designed […]
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Greek and Roman classics became increasingly central to the European literary imagination, being referenced, translated, adopted and reshaped by a huge range of authors. In turn, current criticism […]
This presentation will examine the consummate skill with which Goya represents emotions in his late private albums and some of the print series associated with these drawings. From 1795-6 Goya borrows the figure of the […]
This innovative study day, which is open to scholars and the public alike, offers an opportunity to share research insights as well as critical reflection on practices and policies that engage the expressive arts for […]
The face is one of the most intense sites for the expression and communication of emotion. That intensity generates millions of representations of the face, in a range of textual, dramatic, visual, cinematic and material […]
The Australian Centre and the Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE) are presenting the 6th Biennial Conference of the Australian Animal Studies Group at the University of Melbourne from July 12-15, 2015. The […]
Feeling Exclusion: Emotional Strategies and Burdens of Religious Discrimination and Displacement in Early Modern Europe 29-31 May 2014, University of Melbourne Discrimination and exclusion have long been strategies used by authorities to maintain authority and control. […]
Centre for the History of Emotions | Relics and Emotions Study Day March 21st 2014, University of Melbourne Relics are the bodily remains of saints, or objects that came into contact with saints during their […]
