Affects in History

Affects in History is a one-day workshop designed to bring together theoretical accounts of affect with historical analyses of affect and emotion.

This workshop will offer cross-period and interdisciplinary investigations of feeling, discussing representations and analyses of affect and emotion from the early modern period to contemporary culture, in a wide range of cultural forms.

The discussions arising from this wide range of contributions will develop the scholarly discussion of emotions and affect in history, bringing together theoretical and historicist investigations of this field.

We will host a fantastic group of speakers from a range of disciplines and backgrounds:

Merve Emre (Associate Professor of American Literature, University of Oxford)

David James (Chair in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Birmingham)

Erin Lafford (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Derby)

Noreen Masud (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English, University of Durham)

Kate Singer (Associate Professor of English and Chair of Critical Social Thought, Mount Holyoke College)

Ross Wilson (University of Cambridge)

Xine Yao (University College London)

This workshop is funded by York's Research Champions for Culture and Communication, and Creativity.