The Centre for Critical Theory (CCT), the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies (CPSS) and the School of Politics at UWE announce a major conference on Politics and Emotions. This international interdisciplinary conference will explore both the emotions involved in politics and the politics of the emotions themselves.
The plenary speakers include:
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, author of two award-winning biographies, Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World (1982) and Anna Freud: A Biography (1988), is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She has authored many other works including the acclaimed The Anatomy of Prejudices (1996).
Jack Barbalet is a leading researcher and theorist of the social and political significance of emotions. He has published extensively on this theme, including the pathbreaking Emotions, Social Theory and Social Structure: A Macrosociological Approach (1998). He is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester, where he is Head of Department.
James M. Jasper is an independent scholar living in New York City. He has taught at Berkeley, Columbia, Princeton, and New York University. His works on politics and emotions include The Art of Moral Protest (1997) and the co-edited volume, Passionate Politics (2001)
Susan James is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her areas of research are early modern philosophy, political philosophy and feminist philosophy. Her recent publications include Passion and Action: The Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (1999). One of her current projects is an exploration of the place of the emotions in political philosophy.
Call for Papers
Here are just some of the themes on which contributions would be welcome:
Reason and passion
Affect and social and political mobilization The emotions and democratic deliberation The politics of fear and insecurity
The dynamics of political violence
Structures of feeling/abiding affects
Embodied and disembodied politics
Intra- and inter-group dynamics and the struggle for recognition Care, empathy and oppression
The therapeutic state and its discontents
If you would like to propose a paper, send your name and affiliation, paper title and 250 word abstract to Centre for Critical Theory, Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of the West of England, Frenchay, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK or by email to cct@uwe.ac.uk
Further Information
For further details, see the CCT website at www.uwe.ac.uk/research/centres/cct/ or contact Julia Long, Research Administrator for CPSS (julia.long@uwe.ac.uk)
For questions about paper proposals, contact the co-organizers: Paul Hoggett (paul.hoggett@uwe.ac.uk) or Simon Thompson (simon.thompson@uwe.ac.uk)
