Materiality and Emotion II: Sticks and Stone

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Organizer Name

Stephanie Downes

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Melbourne

Presider Name

Thomas A. Prendergast

Presider Affiliation

College of Wooster

Paper Title 1

Love of Stone

Presenter 1 Name

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Presenter 1 Affiliation

George Washington Univ.

Paper Title 2

Emotions in Stone: Sinful Anger and Saintly Joy in a Thirteenth-Century Stoning of Saint Stephen

Presenter 2 Name

Brigit G. Ferguson

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Santa Barbara

Paper Title 3

Spontaneous Generation and the Problem of "Automatic" Agency

Presenter 3 Name

Karl Steel

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Brooklyn College, CUNY

Paper Title 4

Weapons of Self-Destruction: Materiality and Suicide in the Middle Ages

Presenter 4 Name

Rebecca F. McNamara

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Sydney

Start Date

8-5-2014 3:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 2016

Description

Critical and theoretical investigations of materiality are increasingly prevalent in historical inquiry, spurred by recent interest in the relationships between contemporary objects and emotions in the twenty-first century. The historical intersections between material culture and emotions in medieval contexts, however, remain under explored. This panel will address the need to develop an appropriate cross-disciplinary theoretical framework for the study of materiality and emotion in the Middle Ages. The papers in “Materiality and Emotion II: Sticks and Stone” treat the emotions in the context of art, architecture, nature, weaponry and sculpture.

Stephanie Downes