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Norbert Elias, Emotional Styles, and Historical ChangeAn Interdisciplinary CollaboratoryARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Change ProgramUniversity of Adelaide 14-15 June, 2011Call for Paperssource1. ConceptualizationThis is an international Collaboratory on the historical development of emotional styles inEurope and North America from medieval times to the present. The meeting will focus on theseminal ideas of the sociologist Norbert Elias about changes in emotions and society in hisThe Civilising Process (1939) and his work more generally. Contributions are sought fromhistorians, sociologists, cultural theorists and others working in the field of the history ofemotions, and may take the form of substantial historical essays or theoretical papersdiscussing alternative models and interpretations to those of Elias.Besides making substantive contributions to historical knowledge, the Collaboratory willaddress two important theoretical issues:- what are the drivers of change in Western societies’ emotional regimes?-  what is the role of collective emotions in socio-historical change?These questions have been chosen because of their intrinsic importance and their salience forsociologists and anthropologists, as well as historians and students of law, media, politics andreligion.2. Date and VenueThe Collaboratory will be held at the University of Adelaide 14-15 June, 2011. It issponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Change Program.The meeting is organized by Professor David Lemmings and Professor Ann Brooks.3. Call for papersPlease submit an abstract of 200 words by 1 February 2011. Completed papers should besubmitted by 15 April 2011. Papers are invited on the following themes:The history of emotions, especially relating to:- collective emotions and historical change- collective identity- mass emotions and media- violence- the body- crime, the administration of justice and punishment- gender and social theory- the state and emotional politicsPapers should not exceed 8,000 words in length. They will be pre-circulated to delegates anduploaded onto the Collaboratory website. At the meeting abbreviated presentations will bemade by all but the keynote speakers so as to maximise time for discussion. Discussants willbe called for at a later point and further details will be circulated in January 2011.Abstracts should be submitted to david.lemmings@adelaide.edu.au andann.brooks@adelaide.edu.au4. Keynote speakersKeynotes will include Professor Barbara Rosewein (Loyola University of Chicago),Professor Bryan Turner (City University of New York and the University of WesternSydney), Professor Nicole Eustace (New York University) and Professor Stephen Mennell,(University College Dublin and the Norbert Elias Foundation).5. Registration and AccommodationThere will be no formal Registration fee but a charge of AUS$80 will be made to cover thecosts of the Collaboratory dinner. Accommodation details will be provided in January 2011.David Lemmings and Ann BrooksKeynote speakersStephen Mennell is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin, retiring in 2009.He read economics at Cambridge (1963-66), and then spent the year 1966-67 in the old Department ofSocial Relations at Harvard, before teaching at the University of Exeter (1967-90) and at MonashUniversity, Australia (1990-93). His books include All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste inEngland and France from the Middle Ages to the Present (1985), Norbert Elias: Civilization and theHuman Self-Image (1989, paperback Norbert Elias: An Introduction, 1992, 1998), and The AmericanCivilizing Process (2007). He holds the degrees of Doctor in de Sociale Wetenschappen (Amsterdam)and Doctor of Letters (Cambridge). He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts andSciences, of the Royal Irish Academy, and of the Board of the Norbert Elias Foundation, Amsterdam.Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago and visiting professorat the University of Utrecht (2005), the École Normale Supérieure (2004), and the École des HautesEtudes en Sciences Sociales (1992), She received her Ph.D. degree in History from the University ofChicago. She is author of many articles and has written several books on Cluny, including To Be theNeighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny’s Property, 909-1049 (1989) and NegotiatingSpace: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval. Europe (1999). On thesubject of emotions, she is (among other things) editor of Anger’s Past: The Social Uses of anEmotion in the Middle Ages (1998) and author of Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages(2006). She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Emotions Past: A History, whichargues that the history of emotions is best seen as a succession of “emotional communities”-- groupswhose members share standards and norms of emotional expression--some of which recede and othersof which come to the fore (for various reasons) over time.Nicole Eustace is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She received her B.A.from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author ofPassion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution (UNC Press,2008). She is currently at work on a study of emotion and political change during the outbreak of thefirst declared war in the constitutional United States: American Ardor: The Politics of Passion andPopulation in the War of 1812.Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, The CityUniversity of New York , where he is Director of the Committee on Religion, and concurrently theDirector of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of WesternSydney. He was previously the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor at Wellesley CollegeUSA (2009-2010) and has held professorships at Flinders University, Essex University, DeakinUniversity, the State University of Utrecht, and at the National University of Singapore. He was also aprofessorial fellow at Fitzwilliam College and professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge(1998-2005). He was an Alexander von Humboldt Professorial Fellow at Bielefeld University in1987. Weber and Islam established his reputation in the sociology of Islam in 1974. More recently heedited The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion (2010) and the four volumeSecularization (Sage, 2010). Vulnerability and Human Rights came out in 2006 and Can we liveforever? in 2009.The third edition of The Body and Society came out in 2008 and Religion andModern Society; citizenship, secularisation and the state (Cambridge University Press) will appear in2011. He was the founding editor of Citizenship Studies, Body &#38; Society (with Mike Featherstone)and Journal of Classical Sociology (with John O’Neill). He is the series editor of Key Issues inModern Sociology and Tracts for the Times with Anthem Press, and with Gabriele Marranci he editsthe new series on Muslims in Global Societies for Springer. Professor Turner is a Fellow of theAustralian Academy of the Social Sciences, a member of the American Sociological ResearchAssociation, and was awarded a Doctor of Letters by Cambridge University in 2009.