Emotions Make History

In this podcast Bastian Phelan, Outreach Officer at the Sydney node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, interviews Umberto Grassi about his time as a researcher with CHE. Umberto was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Centre at The University of Sydney from 2015 to 2018. His CHE research project was titled 'Ambiguous Boundaries: Sex Crimes and Cross-cultural Encounters in the Early Modern Mediterranean World’. Umberto is currently a Marie Curie Global Fellow, based at the University of Verona with a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Maryland.

In this podcast Bastian Phelan, Outreach Officer at the Sydney node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, interviews Rebecca McNamara about her time as a researcher with CHE. Una was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Centre at The University of Sydney from 2011 to 2014. Her CHE research project, 'Emotions and the Suicidal Impulse in the Medieval World' examined emotions related to cases of suicide or attempted suicide found in chronicles and legal records from c.1200–1550. Rebecca is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Westmont College, Santa Barbara.

Adam Hembree is a PhD candidate in English at The University of Melbourne. He researches the discursive similarities between early modern writings on staged action and magic as passionate practices. His other research interests include the philosophy of language, etymology, monstrosity, and intersections between cognitive science and literature. Adam also produces and performs improvised theatre in Melbourne. This paper, ‘Lexical Feeling: Language as Emotional Technology’, was delivered at ‘The Future of Emotions: Conversations Without Borders’ at The University of Western Australia, in June 2018.

In this podcast Bastian Phelan, Outreach Officer at the Sydney node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, interviews Una McIlvenna about her time as a researcher with CHE. Una was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Centre at The University of Sydney from 2011 to 2014. Her CHE research project, 'Singing the News of Death: Song in Early Modern European Execution (1500–1900)’ examined emotional responses to public execution in the early modern period, looking in particular at the use of songs and verse in accounts of crime and execution across Europe. Una is currently a Hansen Lecturer in history at The University Melbourne.

James L. Smith is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on intellectual history, medieval abstractions and visualisation schemata, environmental humanities and water history. His first monograph, Water in Medieval Intellectual Culture: Case-Studies from Twelfth-Century Monasticism was published by Brepols in 2017. James is the editor of The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits (Punctum, 2017), and co-editor of a themed collection for the Open Library of the Humanities on ‘New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies’ (forthcoming, 2018). He is currently shaping a digital/environmental humanities project titled ‘Deep Mapping the Spiritual Waterscape of Ireland’s Lakes: The Case of Loch Derg, Donegal’. This paper, ‘Toxic Emotions: Riparian Personification and Pollution, Past, Present and Future’, was delivered at ‘The Future of Emotions: Conversations Without Borders’ at The University of Western Australia, in June 2018.

Shino Konishi is a Lecturer in History and Indigenous Studies at The University of Western Australia, and a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She is Aboriginal and identifies with the Yawuru people of Broome. This paper, 'Emotional Exchanges: Gift-Giving in Cross-Cultural Encounters', was delivered at ‘The Future of Emotions: Conversations Without Borders’ at The University of Western Australia, in June 2018.

Katie Barclay is a EURIAS Fellow at AIAS, Aarhus Universitet, and a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide. She is an historian of family life, gender and emotion, and has published widely in these areas. Her publications include: Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650–1850 (Manchester University Press, 2011); Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200–1920: Family, State and Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), edited with Merridee Bailey; and Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), edited with Kimberley Reynolds and Ciara Rawnsley. She is co-editor of Emotions: History, Culture, Society, and is currently completing a monograph on how to understand the collective emotions of eighteenth-century lower order Scots. This paper, ‘Precarious Emotions: Quantification, Big Data and the History of Emotions’ was delivered as a keynote lecture at a conference on ‘The Future of Emotions: Conversations without Borders’ at The University of Western Australia in June 2018.

Moisés Prieto completed his PhD at the University of Zurich in 2013. His doctoral research focused on Swiss media perception of the late Franco regime and the Spanish democratisation process (published in 2015 by Böhlau). His research interests include media history, microhistory, the history of emotions, the history of migration and authoritarian systems and historical semantics. He is co-author of Tele-revista y la Transición (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2015). From 2014 to 2015 he was a visiting fellow at St Antony’s College (University of Oxford), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Humboldt University since 2016, and is currently working on dictatorial narratives during the first half of the long nineteenth century. This paper, ‘Shaping the Tyrant: The Role of Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Accounts on the Argentine Dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas (1830s–1850s)’, was delivered at ‘Emotions of Cultures/Cultures of Emotions: Comparative Perspectives’, the inaugural conference of the Society for the History of Emotions in December 2017.

In this podcast, Melissa Raine, an Honorary Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and Rob Grout, a PhD candidate at the University of York, examine medieval childhood and emotions in their discussion of the fifteenth-century poem, 'The Childhood of Christ'. This poem survives in a manuscript owned and compiled by Robert Thornton. It is now housed in the British Library.

In this podcast, CHE Education and Outreach Officer Penelope Lee and Media Officer Emma Miller interview Sophie Cope, a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham. Sophie's PhD, 'Making Time Material: Domestic Dated Objects in Seventeenth-Century England', examines popular ideas of time in the seventeenth century and their expression in material culture. She is author of the chapter 'Women in the Sea of Time: Domestic Dated Objects in Seventeenth-Century England', in Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World, a volume edited by Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).

Katie Barclay is an historian of gender, the family, the self and emotions based at The University of Adelaide. She is a Senior Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, editor of the journal 'Emotions: History, Culture, Society', a member of the Council for The Society for the History of Emotions (www.historyofemotions.org.au/society-for-the-history-of-emotions) and a EURIAS Marie Curie Fellow at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. In this 'Thinking with the History of Emotions' podcast, Katie discusses the history of loneliness.

Katie Barclay is an historian of gender, the family, the self and emotions based at The University of Adelaide. She is a Senior Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, editor of the journal 'Emotions: History, Culture, Society', a member of the Council for The Society for the History of Emotions (www.historyofemotions.org.au/society-for-the-history-of-emotions) and a EURIAS Marie Curie Fellow at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. In this 'Thinking with the History of Emotions' podcast, Katie discusses family and how it is remembered and commemorated.

‘The Voices of Women will be performed at the Melbourne Recital Centre (Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, cnr Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne) on 20 March 2018. In this podcast, CHE Deputy Director and leader of the Performance Program Jane Davidson talks to Marshall McGuire (Ludovico’s Band) about baroque female composers, historical music performances and emotions. Tickets for the event can be purchased at: https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2018/the-voices-of-women/. Being a woman in the male-dominated music industry is difficult enough today, so what would it have been like 400 years ago? This concert will enable audiences to catch a glimpse into the world of three Baroque female composers. Melbourne’s renowned Ludovico’s Band (www.ludovicosband.com) will team up with composer and soprano Helen Thomson to perform ‘The Voices of Women’. The performance will feature works by composers Isabella Leonarda, Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi, who were all active in Italy in the seventeenth century, and who enjoyed varying degrees of success during their lifetimes.

Carol Williams is an adjunct research fellow with the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Monash University has an established academic career in both musicology and history. She is one of the collaborating editors and translators of the Ars Musice of Johannes de Grocheio (Medieval Institute Publications, 2011) and the Tractatus de tonis of Guy of Saint-Denis (Medieval Institute Publications, 2017). Her other publications include the essays ‘Modes and Manipulation: Music, the State, and Emotion’ and ‘The Tonary as Analytic Guidebook for the Performance of Chant’. She is also a performing musician, singing and playing in the early music ensemble, Acord. This paper – ‘Affects and Passions of the Soul: Aristotelian Influence in Music Theory’ – was delivered at ‘Emotions of Cultures/Cultures of Emotions: Comparative Perspectives’, the inaugural conference of the Society for the History of Emotions in December 2017.

Kellie Robertson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) and The Laborer’s Two Bodies: Labor and the ‘Work’ of the Text in Medieval Britain, 1350–1500 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Her current book project, Yesterday’s Weather: Narrative and Premodern Climate Change, examines how medieval and early modern societies depict the shock of natural disaster. This paper, ‘Thinking the Unthinkable: Belief, Climate Change and Premodern Weather’ was delivered as part of a seminar series on ‘Belief’ at The University of Queensland in November 2017.

Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is Director of the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre and Deputy Director (Research) at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Australia. She has worked on a range of national and international projects in community music, arts-based service learning with Australian First Peoples, arts programs in prisons, and global mobility. She serves on the Board of Australia’s peak music advocacy body, Music Australia, and has served as Chair and Commissioner of the International Society for Music Education’s Community Music Activities Commission. She is the co-founder of the Asia Pacific Community Music Network, and is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Community Music. This keynote lecture, ‘How Can Concepts of Love Inform Peacebuilding and Empathy in Intercultural Music Making?’, was delivered at a conference on ‘Peace, Empathy and Conciliation Through Music’ that was hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, together with the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, at The University of Melbourne in September 2017.

Katie Barclay is an historian of gender, the family, the self and emotions based at The University of Adelaide. She is a Senior Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, editor of the journal 'Emotions: History, Culture, Society' and a member of the Council for The Society for the History of Emotions (www.historyofemotions.org.au/society-for-the-history-of-emotions) and a EURIAS Marie Curie Fellow at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. In this 'Thinking with the History of Emotions' podcast, Katie discusses the power of emotions to enact social change.

Michael Barbezat is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Western Australia. He holds an MA in Medieval History from the University of California at Davis (2006) and a PhD in Medieval Studies from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto (2013). Michael’s research focuses on connections between religious ideologies and conceptions of society, geography and identity, particularly in the fields of medieval historiography and literature. He is currently writing a monograph titled 'Burning Bodies: Community, Eschatology and Identity in the Middle Ages', which will be published by Cornell University Press in 2018. This paper, ‘Curiosity that Becomes Something Else: The Desire to See and to Speak with the Dead in English Twelfth-Century Sources’, was delivered at a conference on ‘The Natural and the Supernatural in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds’ at The University of Western Australia in October 2017.

Amy Milka is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Adelaide. Her research considers the affective language of the courtroom in English criminal courts in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This paper, ‘Reporting Courtroom Emotions in Eighteenth-Century London’, was presented at a conference on ‘News Reporting and Emotion’ at The University of Adelaide in September 2017.

Una McIlvenna is the Hansen Lecturer in History at The University of Melbourne, and a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her research interests lie broadly in the fields of cultural and literary history, as well as in an ongoing project on emotional responses to the use of song and verse in accounts of crime and public execution in early modern Europe. She is the author of Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici (Routledge, 2016), and she is currently working on a second monograph titled ‘Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe, 1550-1900’. This paper, ‘The Emotions of Performing the News in Early Modern Europe’, was delivered at a conference on ‘News Reporting and Emotions’ at The University of Adelaide in September 2017.

Joshua Scodel is Helen A. Regenstein Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of Chicago. His research focuses on early modern English literature in relation to classical literature and philosophy, and to intellectual, cultural and political history. He is the author of The English Poetic Epitaph: Commemoration and Conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth (Cornell University Press, 1991) and Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature (Princeton University Press, 2002), and of numerous articles on topics ranging from Donne and Jonson, to English translations of classical and continental lyrics, Cavalier love poetry, Interregnum retirement literature, the Restoration Pindaric ode, the English lyric 1650-1740, seventeenth-century English literary criticism, and Dryden's critical principles. This paper, ‘The Poetics of Care in Seventeenth-Century England’ was delivered at a conference on ‘Art and Affect’ at The University of Queensland in July 2017.

Katie Barclay is an historian of gender, the family, the self and emotions based at The University of Adelaide. She is a Senior Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, editor of the journal 'Emotions: History, Culture, Society' and a member of the Council for The Society for the History of Emotions (www.historyofemotions.org.au/society-for-the-history-of-emotions). In this podcast, the eighth in our 'Thinking with the History of Emotions' segment, Katie discusses the history of love, marriage and regulation.

Ross Knecht is Assistant Professor of English at Emory University, and a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. His research focuses on early modern literature, critical theory and the history of philosophy, and he is currently completing a book on the intersection of emotion and education in sixteenth-century English literature. This paper, ‘Reproduction, Affect and Pedagogy in Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ explores the representation of biological reproduction and poetic memorialisation in Shakespeare. It was delivered at a conference on ‘Art and Affect’ at The University of Queensland in July 2017.

Kirk Essary is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Western Australia. His research focuses on intellectual and religious history in sixteenth-century Europe, particularly the works of Erasmus and Calvin. He is the author of Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God: Reason and Emotion in the Christian Philosophy (University of Toronto Press, 2017). This paper, ‘Erasmus on the Arts in Luther’s Reformation: A Tragedy’, considers the role of emotions discourse in attitudes toward the arts in Erasmus’ works, with a specific focus on the early years of the Reformation. It was delivered at a conference on ‘Art and Affect’ at The University of Queensland in July 2017.

The Tale of Orpheus will be performed at the Meat Market Theatre in North Melbourne, 7-8 September 2017. In this podcast, Jane Davidson (Artistic Director) and David Greco (Orfeo) discuss Monteverdi, emotions and historical music performances. Tickets for the event can be purchased at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-tale-of-orpheus-by-claudio-monteverdi-tickets-35869349189. The Tale of Orpheus reimagines Claudio Monteverdi’s baroque masterpiece L’Orfeo ‒ arguably the first ‘true’ opera ‒ for the twenty-first century. Known to his contemporaries as an 'oracolo della musica', Monteverdi was a musical visionary. His talent for communicating emotion, and using it as a powerful driving force, explains L’Orfeo’s enduring appeal today. This production explores the work’s creative potential even further, in a modern re-telling of one of the most influential and beloved stories in operatic history. The Tale of Orpheus has been produced by the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at The University of Melbourne in association with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University, Professor Emeritus at Brown University and a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Advisory Board. His research focuses on ancient Greek and Latin literature, especially comedy and the novel, and classical philosophy. This lecture, which asks ‘Did Aristotle Recognise Aesthetic Emotions?’, was delivered at the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/igrct) at the University of Bristol in April 2017. It is the first Sir Jeremy Morse IGRCT Lecture. A video of the lecture can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ei8VkZPQgw&t=76s. A published version of the paper is forthcoming in a volume by Cambridge University Press. With thanks to the IGRCT for sharing their recording.

David Lemmings is Professor of History at The University of Adelaide and a Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. He has published extensively on the socio-cultural history of law and the legal professions in eighteenth-century Britain. He is the author of Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century: From Consent to Command (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 2015); and the editor of Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1700–1850 (Ashgate, 2012); and (with Ann Brooks), Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (Routledge, 2014, 2016). This paper – ‘Emotions, Power and Popular Opinion about the Administration of Justice: The English Experience, from Coke’s “Artificial Reason” to the Sensibility of “True Crime Stories”’ – was delivered as a keynote address at a conference on ‘Powerful Emotions / Emotions and Power’ at the University of York in June 2017. An expanded version of this paper has been published in Emotions: History, Culture, Society 1.1 (2017).

Katie Barclay is an historian of gender, the family, the self and emotions. She is currently a DECRA Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at The University of Adelaide, editor of the journal 'Emotions: History, Culture, Society' and a member of the Council for The Society for the History of Emotions (www.historyofemotions.org.au/society-for-the-history-of-emotions). In this podcast, the sixth in our 'Thinking with the History of Emotions' segment, Katie discusses the iconography of children and its emotional impact.

William Skinner is a cultural anthropologist at The University of Adelaide. His research focuses on the changing relationship of viticulture to notions of cultural identity and heritage, and his PhD thesis explored how local wine producers experienced, understood and represented place and landscape in South Australia. This paper was delivered at a public panel on ‘Drinking to Remember: History, Memory and the Story of South Australian Wine’ that was organised by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions as part of South Australia’s 2017 History Festival.

Kathryn Prince is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Ottawa. She has published widely on Shakespeare in performance from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and was an Early Career Visiting Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in 2015. Her current work focuses on the practice of emotions in early modern drama. This paper was delivered at a conference on ‘Hamlet and Emotion: Then and Now’ at The University of Western Australia on 10 April 2017. In order to illuminate the myriad intersections of memory, action and emotion in Hamlet, it compares multiple texts and performances, drawing on theories about acting techniques, textual transmission, action analysis and emotions as a practice.

Katie Barclay is an historian of gender, the family, the self and emotions. She is currently a DECRA Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at The University of Adelaide, editor of the journal 'Emotions: History, Culture, Society' and a member of the Council for The Society for the History of Emotions (www.historyofemotions.org.au/society-for-the-history-of-emotions). In this podcast, the fifth in our 'Thinking with the History of Emotions' segment, Katie discusses the relationship of historians to the past, the archive and their sources.

Andrew Lynch is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and Professor of English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia. He has published extensively on medieval English literature and medievalism. He is the editor, with Stephanie Downes and Katrina O’Loughlin, of Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); with Michael Champion, of Understanding Emotions in Early Europe (Brepols, 2015); and, with Louise D’Arcens, of International Medievalism and Popular Culture (Cambria Press, 2014). This paper was delivered at a symposium on ‘Hamlet and Emotions: Then and Now’ at The University of Western Australia on 10 April 2017.

Richard Meek is a Lecturer in English at the University of Hull, specialising in Shakespeare and early modern literature. He is the author of Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare, which was published by Ashgate in 2009, and a number of edited collections. He is currently completing a book on sympathy in early modern literature and culture, provisionally titled The Relativity of Sorrows. This paper, '"For by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his": Hamlet and the Imitation of Emotion', was delivered at a symposium on ‘Hamlet and Emotions: Then and Now’ at The University of Western Australia on 10 April 2017.

Benno Gammerl is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development's Center for the History of Emotions in Berlin. He is currently working on a research project that examines emotions in cross-cultural perspective. This paper, ‘Curtains Up! New Venues for Gay Men and Shifting Emotional Styles Since the 1960s’, was delivered as a keynote address at the ‘First International Conference on Contemporary and Historical Approaches to Emotions’ at the University of Wollongong on 5 December 2016. It investigates how spatial settings informed emotional patterns and practices by analysing the changing spaces within which male same-sex encounters have taken place in West Germany since the 1960s. The names of interview subjects have been changed.

Elizabeth Stephens is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Southern Cross University and an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her new book, A Critical Genealogy of Normality, which she co-authored with Peter Cryle, is forthcoming with Chicago University Press in 2017. This paper, ‘Queer Sensations: Towards an Affective Genealogy of the Modern Body’, was delivered as a keynote address at the ‘First International Conference on Contemporary and Historical Approaches to Emotions’ at the University of Wollongong on 6 December 2016. It draws on recent work in feminist affect studies and cultural histories of emotion to develop the idea of an ‘affective genealogy’. The case of James Tilly Matthews, a man committed to the Bedlam Lunatic Asylum in 1797 for claiming that his body and brain were being controlled by a secret machine, Stephens suggests, is representative of a transformation of the human sensorium by the start of the Industrial Age.

Listen to Katie Barclay, a historian at The University of Adelaide, talk about the work of historians and nostalgia on present day politics. Katie is also Co-Editor of the peer-reviewed interdisciplinary biannual 'Emotions, History, Culture, Society' journal published under the auspices of the Society for the History of Emotions.

Brandon Chua is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland. He researches Restoration drama and poetry. He is currently working on a project that explores ideas of religious freedom during the English Civil War and the Restoration, and another that examines the role of gender in the construction of political subjectivities in works by John Milton, Nicholas Rowe and Eliza Haywood. This paper, ‘Embodying the Common Good: Reconstituting the Body of State on the Post-Regicide Stage’, was delivered at a conference on ‘Shakespeare and the Body Politic’ at The University of Queensland on 28 November 2016. In the paper, Brandon examines the rise of the ‘She-Tragedy’ in the seventeenth century, suggesting that it sheds light on a perceived conflict between existing theatrical modes based on embodiment and an emerging form of popular sovereignty modelled on a more depersonalised notion of ‘common good’.

Leigh Penman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at The University of Queensland. He is currently working on a project concerning Dissenting religious subcultures in Protestant northern Europe during the early modern period, focusing on transnational networks. This paper, ‘The Modernity of Lost Causes’: Frances Yates, Shakespeare and the Rosicrucian Enlightenment’, was delivered at a conference on ‘Shakespeare and the Body Politic’ at The University of Queensland on 28 November 2016. In the paper, Leigh considers Frances Yates’s work The Rosicrucian Enlightenment in the context of her larger project to create a European intellectual history that revolved around hermeneutic philosophy.

Samantha Dieckmann is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Melbourne. Working with Jane Davidson and Multicultural Arts Victoria, Samantha's research explores the deployment of music for conciliation as it relates to personal, religious and political areas of conflict, and emotional community and empathy as resolution. This paper, ‘Restaging Fear: Affective Translation through Intercommunity Performing Arts’ was delivered at the ‘First International Conference on Contemporary and Historical Approaches to Emotions’ at the University of Wollongong on 5 December 2016. It considers Intercultural and interfaith performing arts practices as spaces that facilitate the galvanisation of emotions, and suggests that music and spoken word can be used to construct affective states and activate change.

Katie Barclay is an historian of gender, the family, the self and emotions. She is currently a DECRA Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at The University of Adelaide, editor of the journal 'Emotions: History, Culture, Society' and a member of the Council for The Society for the History of Emotions (www.historyofemotions.org.au/society-for-the-history-of-emotions). In this podcast, the third in a new 'Thinking with the History of Emotions' segment, Katie reflects on the pleasure, excess and the political history of hedonism.

Peter Holbrook is Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature at The University of Queensland, and a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. His research focuses on political, social and philosophical aspects of English Renaissance literature, and on the influence of Shakespeare on later writers and thinkers. He is currently working on self-control and the conflict between reason and the passions in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. This paper, which was delivered at a conference on ‘Shakespeare and the Body Politic’ at The University of Queensland on 28 November 2016, discusses political understandings of nature in Shakespeare’s plays.

Laurie Johnson is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Queensland. He is the President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, and his publications include The Tain of Hamlet (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) and The Wolf Man’s Burden (Cornell University Press, 2001). He is currently finishing a book on the Newington Butts playhouse and the plays performed there in 1594 by the Admiral’s Men and the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. This paper, ‘“The Silver Spring Where England Drinks”: Shakespeare’s Sewers and Bodily Politics’ was delivered at a conference on ‘Shakespeare and the Body Politic’ at The University of Queensland on 28 November 2016. It examines the association of sewers in Shakespeare’s time with the body politic.

Valerie Traub is the Adrienne Rich Distinguished University Professor and Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is a specialist in the study of gender and sexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and the author of Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 1992). This paper, ‘Becoming Converted: Sex, Knowledge and the Religious Body Politic’ was delivered at a symposium on ‘Shakespeare and the Body Politic’ at The University of Queensland on 28 November 2016. In the paper, she advances a queer and intersectional analysis to expand our notion of the body politic from one of state formation to one that is dynamic and takes account of embodiment.

Karin Sellberg is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at The University of Queensland and an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She is particularly interested in feminist and queer readings of Shakespeare’s plays, and in early modern science and theories of time and embodiment. This paper, which was delivered at a symposium on ‘Shakespeare and the Body Politic’ at The University of Queensland on 28 November 2016, discusses the function of sanguinity and virility in Shakespeare’s 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear'. It argues that the health of physical as well as political bodies in the plays relied on a generative circulation of blood.

Katie Barclay is an historian of gender, the family, the self and emotions. She is currently a DECRA Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at The University of Adelaide, and is an editor of the journal 'Emotions: History, Culture, Society'. In this podcast, the second in a new 'Thinking with the History of Emotions' segment, Katie reflects on the importance of love for determining how people live together within societies.

Paul Megna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Western Australia. He is currently researching the role of emotion role in medieval and medievalist drama. This seminar paper, 'Medievalist Existentialism and Emotional Ethics in Simone De Beauvoir's 'The Useless Mouths' (1944)' was delivered at The University of Western Australia on 25 November 2016. In the paper, Paul examines the ethical implications of decisions that are made within the play to expel parts of a fictional medieval Flemish community. He does this particularly in light of existentialist ideas about love, death, meaning, freedom and responsibility.

Katie Barclay is an historian of gender, the family, the self and emotions. She is currently a DECRA Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at The University of Adelaide, and is an editor of the journal 'Emotions: History, Culture, Society'. In this podcast, the first in a new 'Thinking with the History of Emotions' segment, Katie reflects on hope and creativity as a way of 'doing 2017 differently'.

Thomas Dixon is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests include the history of emotions (especially anger), emotional health, medicine and science, and the cultural history of philosophy (including Stoicism and existentialism). He is the author of Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) and From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; Paperback edition, 2006), and he is currently working on a history of anger. In November 2016, Professor Dixon visited the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions as a Partner Investigator. While in Adelaide attending the CHE Biennial Research Meeting, he was interviewed by Education and Outreach Officer Penelope Lee.

Vivasvan Soni is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University. His research interests include the rise of the novel, moral and political theory, narratology, theories of tragedy, utopian writing and theories of modernity. This seminar, delivered at The University of Queensland on 28 October 2016, relates to his current work on the 'crisis of judgment' in the eighteenth-century. Through a close reading of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment – the text through which aesthetics is constituted as an autonomous discipline – the paper argues that a certain liberal conception of freedom finds itself at odds with the practice of judgement.

Rebecca McNamara is a lecturer in medieval literature at UCLA. She studies the history of emotions related to the suicidal impulse in medieval English literature and culture, a project she began as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. This paper was delivered at a research workshop on ‘Medieval Emotions and Contemporary Methodologies’ at Birkbeck, University of London, on 8 July 2016. In the paper, Rebecca analyses her article ‘The Sorrow of Soreness: Infirmity and Suicide in Medieval England’ (Parergon 31.2 (2014), pp. 11-34) in order to unpack how she uses language as an intellectual inroad for uncovering how emotional habits and practices were established and how they evolved.

Ella Kilgallon is a doctoral student at Queen Mary, University of London. Her AHRC funded project investigates the lived and imagined spaces of female members of the Franciscan third order in thirteenth-century Italy. This paper was delivered at a research workshop on ‘Medieval Emotions and Contemporary Methodologies’ at Birkbeck, University of London, on 8 July 2016. In the paper, Ella discusses the life of Angela of Foligno, a female penitent and member of the Franciscan third order, and analyses the physicality of her emotional response upon entering two key Franciscan churches.