Why We Read (Medieval) Fiction (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Organizer Name

Stephanie Trigg

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Melbourne

Presider Name

Stephanie Trigg

Paper Title 1

Mental Spaciousness

Presenter 1 Name

Maura Nolan

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Berkeley

Paper Title 2

Chaucerian Affectivity

Presenter 2 Name

Sarah Baechle

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Paper Title 3

Why We (Still) Watch Passion Plays

Presenter 3 Name

Paul Megna

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Western Australia

Paper Title 4

Veridical Perception

Presenter 4 Name

Elizabeth Robertson

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Glasgow

Paper Title 5

Reading in Bed with Troilus and Criseyde

Presenter 5 Name

Clare Davidson

Presenter 5 Affiliation

Univ. of Western Australia

Paper Title 6

Emotion, Cognition, and the Psychoanalytic Subject

Presenter 6 Name

Ruth Evans

Presenter 6 Affiliation

St. Louis Univ.

Start Date

11-5-2017 7:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 209

Description

Participants in this roundtable address the theoretical and practical issues involved in reading medieval literature through “theory of mind” and other frameworks that draw on cognitive method, with a special focus on the way these frameworks might illuminate (or perhaps hinder) our study of medieval emotions, feelings and passions.

Stephanie J. Trigg