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ACCESS lecture by Susan Broomhall
Lecture by Susan Broomhall 19 June, 15-17 hrs, VU University Amsterdam On 19 June, professor Susan Broomhall of The University of Western Australia will give a lecture on “Early Modern Colonialisms, Objects and Emotions in modern narrative-making contexts.” Professor Broomhall will … Continue reading
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Lecture on The Origins of Sex
At the Institute of History of Leiden University Faramerz Dabhoiwala will give a lecture on The Origins of Sex: The First Sexual Revolution on Friday 20 April at 3.30 p.m. The lecture will take place in room 028 of the Lipsiusbuilding, Cleveringaplaats … Continue reading
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Book Launch “The Turn of the Soul”
The Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines has great pleasure in inviting you to a Book Launch to mark the publication of The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature Edited by Lieke … Continue reading
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Moral Emotions and Risk Politics Conference
Moral Emotions and Risk Politics 20-22 augustus 2012 Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Risks arising from technologies raise important ethical issues for people living in the 21st century. Although technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, ICT, and nuclear energy can … Continue reading
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Lecture by Ute Frevert
Emotions in History: Lost and Found A lecture by Prof. dr. Ute Frevert Director of the Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institut, Berlin ACCESS, VU University Amsterdam, 22 March 2012, 16.00 hrs, room 12A-00 Please register here to attend. Emotions … Continue reading
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Two PhD positions in VICI project ‘Moving the Language User’
Utrecht University is looking for two PhD students to analyze the relations between affect and discourse processing. Candidates may have a degree in linguistics, but also literary studies, neurology, experimental psychology or other courses. The announcement is below, in Dutch … Continue reading
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Masterclass History of Emotions
Masterclass History of Emotions University of Leuven 2 March 2012 Whereas often perceived as ‘natural’ due to their physiological component, emotions have, in recent years, increasingly been put in historical perspective. Focus is now also on their socio-cultural component. Historians … Continue reading
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Transmission of Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Friday 10 February 2012, 12.30-17.30 hrs VU University Amsterdam, Aurorazaal ‘The business of understanding the transmission of affect, in terms of theory, science, and practice, has barely begun’ – Teresa Brennan, The Transmission of Affect (2004) How and why do we sense … Continue reading
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The Transmission of Emotions
An interdisciplinary Symposium 10 February 2012, VU University This symposium at the Vrije Universiteit brings together three scholars from different disciplines, who will each give an accessible introduction to the present state of knowledge about the transmission of emotions in … Continue reading
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ACCESS Official Presentation
The Amsterdam Centre for Cross-disciplinary Emotion and Sensory Studies (ACCESS) will officially present itself at the conference Cool, Calm and Collected: The Dutch and Their Emotions on Friday 4 November. Cool, Calm and Collected The Dutch and their Emotions in Pre-Modern Times … Continue reading
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