CFP Roundup 7.31.2013

Below are a number of recent Calls for Papers:

"Emotions in History" - Ceræ: an Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early 

Modern Studies

• Deadline: October 31, 2013

Emotions drive individual actions and effect broader social change. The way they are felt, expressed and performed evolves over time, and in exploring the way these emotions were experienced in their historical context, we can both gain a better understanding of how past societies understood their experience, and how this has influenced the way we experience emotions today...We are particularly interested in submissions which engage with the growing field of the digital humanities, and are happy to work with authors to accommodate any requirements involving multimedia or alternative formatting. We also encourage submissions from authors working on emotions in performance and material culture. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by qualified experts in the field.

CFP Roundup 7.16.2013

Below are a number of recent Calls for Papers:

80th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association

• When? November 13-16, 2014
• Where? Atlanta, Georgia
• Deadline: September 15, 2013

The Program Committee for 2014, chaired by Laura Edwards, Duke University, invites proposals on all topics related to the history of the American South from its pre-colonial era to today...According to SHA policy, no one who appeared on the previous two programs, those at Mobile and St. Louis, can be part of the program in Atlanta...All proposals for the 2014 program must be submitted online.

RECAP: ARC Biennial Sourcing Emotions Conference

Winthrop Hall, University of Western Australia

Last week, the Australian Research Council held its Biennial Sourcing Emotions conference at the University of Western Australia. I was fortunate enough to have a paper selected for presentation at the conference, and jumped at this unique opportunity to connect with academics involved in the study of emotions in the Middle Ages and early modern Europe. The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions provides an institutional sanctuary – and I don’t think “sanctuary” is a dramatic term, many scholars iterated their gratitude towards the ARC in bringing them together and “out of isolation” as one plenary speaker noted – for this still-nascent field that is absent from the American university system, buoyed by a $24 million grant from the Australian government, the largest grant bestowed to the humanities in the history of Australia.

My goal here is to provide a short recap of the conference. Since the conference followed a parallel-session format, I am unable to comment on a number of the panels. As an upfront disclaimer, I admit that I was drawn to panels that included emotions in the New World, the colonization of Australia, Anglo-Aboriginal interactions in early Australia, and reading emotions in early modern English literature.