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Sources : Centre for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximilians University et "The HISTORY OF EMOTIONS email list"Conference AnnouncementTheme: Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern CultureType: Interdisciplinary ConferenceInstitution: Centre for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximilians University,Location: Munich, GermanyDate: 23-25 October 2011Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture23- 25 October 2011Organized by Dr. Freya Sierhuis (LMU)Center for Advanced StudiesSeestraße 1380802 Münchenwww.cas.uni-muenchen.deAbstract:Seeing the rapidly growing number of studies on the topic of passions,emotions or affectivity in the historiography of early modern religion,literature, drama, law, political thought and culture, a need toconfront larger questions about early modern understanding and valuationof passion, the connections between passion, cognition and embodiment andthe relation between affective experience and subjectivity is becomingincreasingly apparent. While much recent literature has analysed earlymodern passion within the framework of Galenic physiology or that offaculty psychology, this workshop aims to investigate the passions from avariety of perspectives, choosing an expressly interdisciplinary approachthat situates reflection on the nature of human passions on theinterstices of political thought and ethics, literature and epistemology,religious belief and social praxis. The conference will set out byfocussing on cultural and literary practices that reflect early modernconceptions of the affective nature of human beings, such as devotionalpractices,(auto)biographic writing, as well as notions of selfhood andinteriority in literature and moral philosophy. The analysis of literaryand cultural praxis of affective writing are placed against the backgroundof a broader debate on the relation between language, epistemology and thepassions, while the discussion on the experience of interiority is framedby several papers discussing the limitsof the self.Speakers are: Brian Cummings (Sussex) Russ Leo (Princeton) ChristopherTilmouth (Cambridge) Angus Gowland (UCL) Katharine Fletcher (Sussex)Isabel Karremann (LMU) Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge) Joseph Moshenska(Cambridge) Adrian Streete (QUB) Ioannis Evrigenis (Tufts) Freya Sierhuis(LMU) Felicity Green (Cambridge) Daniella Jancsó (LMU) Björn Quiring (LMU)Stephan Laqué (LMU/Heidelberg)Please register at info@cas.lmu.de by 14 October