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PROGRAM:All conference events will take place in the Columbia University Faculty House Seminar Room 1 with the exception of Thursday night's dinner, which will take place in the Faculty House dining room.  Any changes to the venue will be posted in the entry foyer of the Faculty House. For directions to Faculty House, see: http://facultyhouse.columbia.edu/files/facultyhouse/web/Faculty_House_Directions.pdfTHURSDAY, September 29th 2016:Arrival, 3:00-3:15pm Coffee and tea providedWelcome, 3:15-3:30pmSession #1: Teaching and Learning Emotion, 3:30-5:00pmIrina Dumitrescu, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, moderator“Embarrassment: Losing Face in Rhetorical School Texts of the Central Middle Ages”Monika Otter, Dartmouth College“Swiðe swete to belcettan: Affective Eruptions in the Old English Boethius” Jennifer A. Lorden, University of California, Berkeley“Medieval Stupor”Thomas Prendergast, College of Wooster Coffee Break, 5:00-5:15pmKeynote Lecture: "Making Up People Between the Lines," 5:15-7:00pmFiona Somerset, University of ConnecticutStephanie Trigg, University of Melbourne, introductionFRIDAY, September 30th 2016Arrival/Breakfast, 8:15-8:45amWelcome, 8:45-9:00amSession #2: Empathy and Compassion, 9:00-10:30amPatricia Dailey, Columbia University, moderator“Car je n’ay plus sens ne memoire: Feeling Other People’s Demons in Medieval French Theater”Andreea Marculescu, University of California, Irvine“Emotional Contagion in the Middle Ages”Beatrice Delaurenti, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale “Griselda’s Swoon: Historicizing Medieval Affect Alongside Emotion”Glenn Burger, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center Coffee Break, 10:30-10:45amSession #3: Images and Objects, 10:45am-12:15pmLauren Mancia, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, moderator“Performing Emotion in the Sculpted Deposition”Julia Perratore, The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Tears for Abraham? The Sacrifice of Isaac in Anglo-Saxon Imagination”Shu-han Luo, Yale University“Feeling in the Margins in Fifteenth-Century Prayer Books”Sara M. Weisweaver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lunch, 12:15-1:30pmSession #4: Affections in Community, 1:30-3:00pmPiroska Nagy, Université du Québec à Montréal, moderator“Private Emotions and Public Display: Normative Court Community in Castile-Leon, c. 1250-1350”Kim Bergqvist, Stockholm University“Can Emotions Make Law?: Collective Trauma, Apostasy and Legal Responsiveness in Fifteenth Century Austrian Jewry”Tamar Menashe, Columbia University“Jealousy (ghayra) in Pre-Modern Islamic Constructions of Masculinity”Marion H. Katz, New York UniversityBreak, 3:00-3:15pmSession #5: Affective Genres, 3:15-4:45pmStephanie Trigg, University of Melbourne, moderator“The Abstemious Affect of the Couplet Genre in Early Modern South Asian Devotional Poetry”Manpreet Kaur, Columbia University“Negative Interiority: Unruly Feelings in Premodern Korean Fiction”Ksenia Chizhova, Princeton University “Moving the Soul: Exegesis and Medieval Psychology in Simone Fidati's De Gestis Domini Salvatoris"Xavier Biron-Ouellet, Université du Québec à MontréalClosing Discussion, 4:45-5:30pmJesus Rodriguez Velasco, Columbia University &#160;