Performativité historique des émotions

Emotional Bodies
A workshop on the historical performativity of emotions

OCTOBER, 20-22, 2014

Louis Jeantet Auditorium, Route Florissant 77, CH-1206 Geneva

Organised by Dolores Martín Moruno Univerité de Genève, iEH2
Sophie Milquet Université Libre de Bruxelles, Département de langues et lettres
Beatriz Pichel De Montfort University, Photographic History Research Centre

The idea that the body is the site in which emotions are expressed is an old one in Western Culture. However, shall we alternatively consider emotions as historical agents that have given meaning to systems of symbolic relations which we understand here as “bodies”? This three-day workshop seeks to explore the conception of emotions as cultural practices that do things and have the power of creating emotional bodies throughout history. With this aim in mind, we will examine the production of physical, social, political, artistic and literary bodies in connection with the changing meaning of social norms, cultural codes and institutions, and especially as the result of the work of emotions.



20, OCTOBER 14:00 Emotional bodies in the sciences
 Chair: Andrea Carlino iEH2, University of Geneva

Welcome and Introduction: Dolores Martín Moruno, Sophie Milquet & Beatriz Pichel



Otniel Dror Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Keynote Lecture: The Adrenaline Paradigm of Emotions

Paul White University of Cambridge
The Blush of Love

Coffee Break

Damien Boquet Université d’Aix-Marseille
Saintes humeurs. Émotions et fluides corporels dans l’hagiographie féminine au XIIIe siècle

Marc Ratcliff Faculty of Psychology, University of Geneva
Flournoy et Théodore : entre maîtrise du corps et émotions de l’esprit

Cocktail at the Louis Jeantet Auditorium



21, OCTOBER 09:30 emotions as sites for social exchange and political change

Chair: Dolores Martín Moruno iEH2, University of Geneva

Piroska Nagy UQAM/EHESS
Faire corps d’émotion. La mise en scène de la crèche par François d’Assise à Greccio, ou la création d’une communauté émotionnelle évangélique

Sophie Wahnich CNRS, IIAC
Les émotions dans la Révolution française

Coffee Break

Bertrand Taithe University of Manchester
Emotion and Humanitarian Aid

Jon Arrizabalaga IMF-CSIC
Performing Population’s Humanitarian Emotions in Wartime: Narratives of relief action in front of the Spanish civil wars in the 1870s

Lunch

21, OCTOBER 14:00 Artistic and literary bodies
Chair: Sophie Milquet Université Libre de Bruxelles

Antonio Rodríguez Université de Lausanne
Le corps du lecteur et la poétique

Rafael Mandressi Centre Alexandre Koyré
Les passions sur scène : médecine, théologie et physiognomonie dans la représentation des passions dans le théâtre européen aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Rob Boddice Freidrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
Hysteria or Tetanus ? Ambivalent Embodiment and the Authenticity of Pain

Coffee Break

Guillermo de Eugenio Universidad Carlos III
Sentimentalism, Masochism and Politics: the Anarchist as Possessed, Demonic Body

Patrizia Lombardo Faculty of Humanities, University of Geneva
Le cinéma de David Lynch : trouble, douleur et désespoir

Dinner Conference

22, OCTOBER 09:00 The affective power of visual culture
Chair: Beatriz Pichel De Montfort University

François Delaporte Université d’Amiens
La fabrique de la physionomie

Leticia Fernández Fontecha University of Greenwich
Crying children: Photographic Approaches to Pain in Childhood at the turn of the 19th century

Pilar León Sanz Universidad de Pamplona
Body Image and Cancer from a Psychosomatic Perspective (1950-1959)

Miriam Ronca iEH2, University of Geneva
Le corps performatif, un prodige de la technologie

13:00 Closing remarks