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Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI)
Annual Conference 2009
ITALY AND THE EMOTIONS
PERSPECTIVES FROM THE 18^TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London
27-28 November 2009
Keynote speakers: Professor Alberto Mario Banti (University of Pisa)
Professor Luisa Passerini (University of Turin)
Special guest: Natalia Aspesi, journalist, /La Repubblica/
Starting from the premise that emotions are historically and culturally
conditioned, this conference focuses on emotions in historical
perspective in Italy – an area whose modes of social interaction and
cultural production have long had an influential role in shaping ideas
about emotions well beyond its own geographical borders. Among the
themes examined by over 65 speakers will be
* Emotions, politics and public life
* The emotions of war, colonial conquest, victory and defeat
* Emotion in Italian art, music, literature and cinema
* Fascism as a politics of emotion
* The gendering of emotions
* Religion and the emotional imagination
* Italy’s international influence on concepts of emotion
The conference is the first of its kind, and as the range of themes
suggests, it offers valuable potential for interdisciplinary exchange.
The keynote speakers are internationally pioneering scholars whose work
on the emotions has led the way in re-thinking major areas of research
such as politics and war. As well as bringing together established
scholars from Europe, the USA, and Australasia, the conference also
provides a forum for younger researchers to contribute to an approach
that places emotions at the forefront of humanities research rather than
seeing them as a by-product of other historical processes.
As the whole western world is increasingly forced to re-evaluate its
unsustainable addiction to consumption as the basis of happiness, this
focus on human emotions in historical perspective is particularly
timely. The conference therefore aims not only to develop new ways of
approaching research in its own subject areas, but also to contribute to
a broader process of reflection about the trajectories – past, present
and future – of western society.
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