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MANUFACTURING EMOTIONS

Dates: 8-9 September 2011 Venue: Woolley Common Room, University of Sydney
Keynote Speakers:
Marjorie Curry Woods (University of Texas), Jane Roscoe (Programming Executive, SBS Television)

THE COLLABORATORY:

From loneliness to anger, fear to love, emotions shape our lives and our worlds.
But are emotions themselves also shaped to suit us? If so, who does the shaping and how is it achieved?
This collaboratory explores the history of the manufacture of emotions from the classrooms of medieval Europe through to Indigenous song and the TV screens and billboards of contemporary Australia.

Speakers from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds will consider how emotions may be manufactured and deployed in literature, song, advertising, reality TV, the practice of psychology and international politics.

Convenor: Dr Juanita Feros Ruys (juanita.ruys@sydney.edu.au)
The Medieval and Early Modern Centre
RSVP by 31 August 2011
Click here for the flyer.
Click here for the full program.
Or click here to go to the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Europe 1100-1800 website.

Aspects of Music in the Early Modern Era

2.00-5.00 p.m., Friday 14 October, Common Room, John Woolley Building

Jane Hardie, University of Sydney
“Juan de Yciar and Decorative Traditions in Spanish Cantorales of the Long Sixteenth Century”

John Griffiths, University of Melbourne
“The Silent Proportions of the Sounding Renaissance”

Janice Stockigt, University of Melbourne
“Music and the Power of Patronage at the Court of Dresden : 1696–1756”

Alan Maddox, University of Sydney
“Rhetorical Decorum and the Performance of Emotion in Early Modern Opera”