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The Cultural History of Emotions in Pre-modernity IIEmotions East and Westİstanbul, Sept. 29-Oct. 01, 2011Building  on the momentum of the successful 2008 workshop held at Umeå University  in Sweden, a new conference on the cultural history of emotions is now  being organized, this time in İstanbul, Turkey. Developed jointly by  historians at Sabancı University (İstanbul), Bilkent University  (Ankara), University of Washington (Seattle) and the Network for  Cultural History of Emotions in Pre-modernity (CHEP) at Umeå University,  the program will run over three days and include six invited keynote  talks and a full calendar of talks by established scholars,  post-graduates and advanced graduate students in the arts and  humanities, in addition to providing opportunities to sample life in one  of the world’s most fascinating cities.The  conference’s general theme is Emotions in East and West.  So far the  history of emotions has been dominated by a western and European  perspective. Our aim is to organize a first conference on this theme in  Turkey which we hope will attract new scholars and students into the  field and bring researchers from east and west together for discussions  on how to develop comparative and multicultural analyses in the future.  We welcome contributions on all aspects of the cultural history of  emotions from as many disciplines and diverse approaches as possible,  including (but not limited to) history, the history of ideas, art,  literature, musicology, politics, philosophy, cultural anthropology,  religion, and gender studies.  The conference will continue to explore  the broad themes of the Umeå gathering: for example, emotions as a  historical concept, emotions in religious and political contexts, visual  representations of emotions and emotional gestures, the language of  emotions and its literary manifestations, music and emotions, the  gendering of emotions, sensibility, sentimentalism, love, melancholy,  and despair. In addition we will especially welcome papers dealing with  inter-cultural representations of emotions (Easterners and Westerners  representing each other’s emotions), emotions and cultural identities,  multi-cultural and comparative perspectives.The  organizing committee is inviting submissions of one-page abstracts of  papers to be summarized as 20 minute talks at the İstanbul conference.   The papers should, in general, treat the topic of the history of  emotions in the pre-modern period.  For the Umeå workshop the  “pre-modern period” was presumed to end at the turn of the 18th century,  which is acceptable from a strictly western perspective but  questionable when the focus of the conference broadens to take in the  East, where the nature of “modernity” and the broad moment of its  inception are contentious issues.  Accordingly, papers dealing with  non-western emotions in the 18th century (and even later) will be  considered when a compelling argument is made for the “pre-modernity” of  the emotional context. The language of the Conference is English.  Please send one-page abstracts before Dec. 01 2010, to:  chep2011@bilkent.edu.trTo download this announcement, please click here.Conference Organizers:Walter G. Andrews, University of WashingtonTülay Artan, Sabancı UniversityMohammad Fazlhashemi, Umeå University, CHEPMehmet Kalpaklı, Bilkent UniversityJonas Liliequist, Umeå University, CHEP