NACHE Conference 2024
Program – NACHE Conference on the History of Emotion – University of British Columbia June 7th & 8th
Notes: the actual order of presentations within each session will be determined later. There may be other adjustments in the program closer to the event. Times are Pacific Zone.
Friday June 7
Registration: 8- 8.30. AM: Opening Remarks: 8.30 – 8.50 AM
Session 1: 9-10:30
- History of Experiences: Four Approaches
Rob Boddice, Chair and organizer
Rob Boddice, “Lived Experience, or the View from the Cave”
Ville Kivimaki, “Communities of Experience”
Stephanie Olsen, “Voices and Sources”
Raisa Maria Toivo, “Time, Period and the History of Experience”
- Emociones y pasiones de la modernidad en el cruce entre Imperio, Género y Nación / Emotions and Passions of Modernity at the Crossroads of Empire, Gender and Nation (16th-19th centuries) (Nuria Soriano Muñoz, organizer) (presented primarily in Spanish)
Ben Bryce, Chair
Nuria Soriano Muñoz, “Unbridled Greed and Ambition: passions as a vehicle of American discourse in the Spanish Enlightenment”
Bakarne Altonaga Begona, “Tetricos pesimistas del presente orden de cosas: pessimism and gender in Spanish antiliberalism”
Josep San Ruperto Albert, “Fear and Desire Facing Femininity: gender representations in Ordoñez de Ceballos ‘Viaje del mundo’ (1572-1603)
Nuria Verdet Martínez, “Catalonia in 1640, a disorder of political passions? Pain, anger and love in the literature of the Catalan revolution”
- Emotions in Early Modern/Modern Chinese History
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson, Chair
Haoyue Li, “Contemplating Scents and Apprehending World: Odour, Trauma and Cultural Memory in Late Ming Loyalists’ Writings”
Jerry Yang, “A Manchu’s ‘Way’ and China’s Southwest: sense and emotions of materiality and identity in late 17th-century warfare”
Maram Epstein, “Women Writing Emotions in Late-Imperial Chinese Tanci Novels”
Yue Gu, “Re-examining Jealous Wives: women’s emotional experience in Ming-Qing China”
Session 2: 11-12:30: Keynote speech: Peter Stearns, “Individualism in recent American emotional history: connections and problems“
Lunch following
Session 3: 2-3.30
- Emotions in Jewish Culture(s)
Bruce Rusk, Chair
Matan Boord, “Parents’ Guides and the Creation of ‘New” Domestic Emotions for Jewish Migrants in Mandate Palestine”
Ofer Idels, “The Hebrew Experience: language and emotion in interwar Palestine”
Hizky Shoham, “Emotional Scripts as Class Differentiation in Domestic Ceremonies of Jewish Urban Middle-Class Families in Mandatory Palestine”
Sarah Wobick-Segev, “Mourning and Consolation in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Prayerbooks”
- Working with Emotions in Early and Medieval China
Raisa Maria Toivo, Chair
Kay Duffy, “A History of (or in?) Emotions in Chinese Classical Poetry”
Heng Du, “’Fifty Shades of Joy and Sorrow’: intersections between early Chinese writings and social constructive models of emotions”
Antje Richter, “Responding with Awe in Medieval Chinese Literary and Art Criticism: a contribution to the history of emotions in China”
Yongshan He, “Conceiving Compassionate Father: emotions and the popularization of Buddhism in early medieval China”
- Shame, Anxiety, and Mourning in Nineteenth-Century Settler Societies
Kristine Alexander, Chair
Cecilia Morgan, “’It is no joke with a wife and four children to be without money’: money, emotions and the middle-class family in the mid-nineteenth-century Transatlantic world”
Coll Thrush, “All Lost: shipwreck, settlerhood and belonging in the Graveyard of the Pacific”
Jane Nicholas, “Shame and Infanticide in Canada, 1795-1892”
Session 4: 4-6:00
A. Lived Experiences, Constructed Discourses: female sensibilities, affective horizons and sensitive identities on both sides of the 18th-century Spanish Atlantic
Estela Roselló Soberón, Organizer and Chair
María Tausiet “Lived Experiences, Constructed Discourses: female sensibilities, affective horizons and sensitive identities on both sides of the 18th-century Spanish Atlantic: sensitivities in children’s literature.”
Estela Roselló Soberón, “Enslaved Mothers and Their Children in Spanish New Orleans”
Ester García Moscardó, “Lived Experiences, Constructed Discourses: female sensibilities, affective horizons and sensitive identities on both sides of the 18th-century Spanish Atlantic: representations of the Black man on the Spanish stage.”
Blanca Llanes Parra, “Narratives and Legal Discourses on Violence Against Women in Eighteenth-Century Spain and the Americas”
Mónica Bolufer, ““Lived Experiences, Constructed Identities: female sensibilities, affective horizons and affective identities on both sides of the 18th-century Spanish Atlantic: What women’s letters reveal”
B. Emotions in Ancient History
Aleksandra Restifo, Chair
Samani Pragya and Samani Punya Pragya, “Emotions and Karma Theory: a Jain perspective
Tara Prakash, “Feelings and Kingship in Ancient Egypt”
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson, {“Could the Ancient Egyptians See Red: Approaching colour and emotion in ancient languages”
Madeleine Jenkins, “Exploring Ancient Egyptian Emotions: a case study of the ‘sadness’ semantic field”
Caroline Richard, “Do Emotions Have Voices? Study of ancient emotions and vocal manifestations in Latin literature”
C. Crises and Opportunities: East Asian Emotions, Past and Present
Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu, Chair
Zhaokun Xin, “Patience and Transcendence: anger in deliverance plays of late imperial China’
Xiaoqiao Ling and Young Kyun Oh, “Capturing the Emotion-Reality in Nineteenth-Century Seoul: Yi Ok’s (1760-1815) exploration of literary Sinitic”
Aoife Cantrill, “A Heart on the Sleeve: dress and ceremonial distress in Taiwan’s colonial fiction”
Yuqing Liu, “Lament in Translation: rendering the female body and Hong Kong’s cityscape in Sai Sai’s Mourning for the Breast”
Dinner tbc.
Saturday June 8
Session 5: 9-10:30
- Flirting, Marrying, Consuming and Working: emotion in Japanese history
Mark Jones, Organizer and Chair
Kurtis Hanlon, “Gamifying Romantic Emotions: how Japanese courtiers conceptualized flirting and pining in the Love Exchange Match of 1102”
David Humphrey, “Learning Emotion: emotion recognition and the mediated training of the expressive face”
Mark Jones, “A Romantic Arranged Marriage: introducing emotion in marital practice in interwar Japan”
Diane Wei Lewis, “Labor of Love: neoliberal work subjectivities in 1980s Japan”
- Gestures
Imogen Knox, Chair
Paul Johnson, “turning Red: rouge, race and the politics of blushing in early modern Europe”
Javier Moscoso, “Gestures and Experiences”
Josefa Ros Velasco, “The Gestures that Reveal Boredom: an artistic-historical review”
Thomas Macsotay, “When Emotions Unfold in Space: gestures in the Wagnerian-Art-Life-Continuum”
- New Avenues in Emotions History
Johanna Lozoya, Chair
Oğuzhan Dursun, “Framing Fear: mapping Turkish societal transformation via movies (1950-1999)
Fransisco Pinheiro, “Football and Emotion: another way of (re)working the history of Portuguese Contemporaneity”
Beth Wilson, “Analyzing Emotion in Enslaved People’s Testimony about the Institution of Slavery in the Antebellum United States”
Iris van der Zande, “The Power of the Prisoner: analyzing emotions in nineteenth-century Dutch prisons”
Jay Cavanagh, “Imagens do Inconsciente: Nise, Art and Sensing Mad Worlds in the Twentieth-Century Brazilian Clinic”
Session 6: 11-12:30
- Emotions in the History of Music and Popular Print
Ryan Burns, Chair
Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild, “Musicking the Plague Away: emotional practices of music during the bubonic plague in early modern Vienna”
Darija Andelic-Andzakovic, “Unity and Unisono: Sympathy and Resonance in Eighteenth-Century European Music”
Janet Bourne, “A Woman’s Way of Knowing: emotion and lullabies as heard by early nineteenth-century German mothers”
Imogen Knox, “Representing Male Emotional Pain in Early Modern English Love Ballads”
Tabea Hochstrasser, “Ephemeral Print, Ephemeral Emotions: early modern broadsides and a medium of emotional sociability”
- Issues in Chinese Emotions History
Tara Prakash, Chair
Lingheng He, “Crafting ‘Cries’ over Death: the study of literary women’s grief over bereavement in late Imperial China (17th-early 20th centuries)”
Shu Yang, “An Emotional Illness? The Freudian Hysteria Discourse in Republican China”
Lehyla Heward, “Intermixture of Gender, Emotion and Ethnicity in the Songs of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army”
- Emotions and Issues in Political Theory and Experience
Nikita Arora, Chair
Thiseas Stefanatos, “’My heart and nous tremor’: Entangled emotional regimes in the British Ionian Islands Protectorate, 1815-1865, examined through the Greek Language Question”
Han Hsien Liew, “’I Put My Fear for You Above My Fear of You’: Ibn al-Jawzi and the role of emotions in Islamic political thought”
Session 7: 2-3:30
- Emotions and Violence/Pain
Thiseas Stefanatos, Chair
Sabine Ameer, “Decoding the Interlinkage between Deliberate Urban Built Heritage and Human Emotion: the deliberate destruction of Nebi Yunis in Mosul”
Sharon Halevi, “’Vengeance is Mine’: the ‘emotional economy’ of post-revolutionary violence in the early United States”
Johanna Lozoya, “Pain and Architecture: Placing the Punished Body in Cold War Science Fiction (1960-1970)”
J. Branden Little, “Anticipation, Exhilaration, and Alienation: Emotional Odysseys of Volunteers in the First World War”
- Early Modern Cultures and Experiences
Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild, Chair
William M. Reddy, “Disenchantment and Emotion Regulation in the Letters of Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes, 1643-1649”
Ryan Burns, “Performing Shame in Early Modern Scotland”
Anna Pravdica “A Social and Emotional History of Sincerity in Early Modern Britain”
Brendan Tam, “Being the ‘King’s Friend’ during the Reign of George III”
- Issues in Recent Emotions History
Susan Matt, Chair
Leanne Downing, “Contemporary Grief Practices and Online Spiritual Mediumship”
Josephine Selander, “The Therapeutic Language of Emotions: mindfulness in mass media in the 2010s”
Barbara Sain, “Lost or Transformed? Wonder and awe in American Catholicism (1960-1980)”
Whitney Wood, “The Emotional Labor of Pelvic Teaching Work in Canadian Medical Schools, 1970-1990”
Session 8: 4-5:30
- Love, Gender and Childhood
Stephanie Olsen, Chair
Nikita Arora, “Proscribing and Presenting Love in Punjabi Advice Literature, c., 1900-1940: history of emotions meets history of medicine”
Katie Barclay, “Kissing Children: an emotional history”
Tania Vahtikari, “An Emotional Box; the Finnish ‘baby box’ and the mundane materiality of the welfare society from the 1940s to the present”
- Emotions and politics )
Kaitlin Pontzer, Chair
Aylon Cohen, “Fraternal Love, Sodomitical Angst and the Rise of Modern Democracy in Eighteenth-century England”
Jared Kazik Asser, “I have bottled my wrath and intend to keep my powder dry:” Charles Kennen and the Emotional Contests of Reconstruction’s New Departures”
Sara Hidalgo Garcia de Orelhan, “Emotional suffering and resistance. ETA terrorism and Basque Socialism, 1995-2011”
Session 8: 5:45 – 7 Keynote Address: Dorothy (Dory) Nason, “An Intergenerational Love: Revisiting a Grandmother’s Boarding School Archive.”
and Business Meeting
7-9 Reception
Presentamos esta nueva colección de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales, coordinada por el profesor José Antonio Jara Fuente, con la denominación «Cuadernos de la SEEM. Divulgación«. Nuestro objetivo es el de acercar con trabajos diferentes temas que puedan resultar interesantes para un público amante del Medievo, pero que no se dedica profesionalmente a su estudio o investigación. Serán de una extensión moderada, a veces más o menos breve, y que podrán aparecer bien de forma individual como textos monográficos, o bien de manera grupal, como es el caso que supone el primer número de la colección. En un futuro se completará con su paralela, «Cuadernos de la SEEM. Investigación», y de la que esperamos vea la luz en un corto espacio de tiempo.
Christophe Granger et Sarah Rey, Introduction à l’histoire des sensibilités, Paris, La Découverte, 2024.
