Call for Papers: "Interpreting Emotion in Eastern Europe, Russia, and
Eurasia"
Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum, June 19-21, 2008
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Organizers: Mark Steinberg (History, Slavic Review) and Valeria Sobol
(Slavic Languages and Literatures)
The 2008 Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum will be held at the University of
Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, beginning on the evening of Thursday June 19
and concluding Saturday June 21, 2008, on the topic of "interpreting
emotion in eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia."
This conference will be a multidisciplinary exploration of emotion and its
cultural representations
in eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia from the 19th century to the
present, especially in public life, as well as a critical consideration of
how we approach the study of emotion.
Only relatively recently have scholars begun to study systematically and
deeply emotional perception and
expression as not merely "private" inward feeling but as ways of
interpreting and judging the external world and acting in it. We are
seeking proposals for papers that explore both questions of method and
particular histories, ethnographies, and cultural expressions of emotion.
Topics that might be examined, for example, include emotions and political
culture, emotions and gender, emotions and the body, emotions and the
public sphere, and individual emotions such as love, anger, shame, and
melancholy. Historians, literary scholars, art historians, anthropologists,
sociologists, musicologists, psychologists and other disciplines are
encouraged to propose papers.
Please send proposals for papers (maximum 1
page) and a brief CV to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] and
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] by May 31, 2007 (you may also
contact us with questions). Subject to funding, we expect to be able to
cover participants' expenses for travel and lodging.
For more information on the Fisher Forum series see:
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/events/fisher.html
Mark D. Steinberg
Professor, Department of History
Editor, Slavic Review
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/steinb/www/main.htm
Department of History, University of Illinois
416 Gregory Hall 810 S. Wright Street
Urbana IL 61801 (MC-466)
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Slavic Review
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Champaign, IL 61820-6601
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