{"id":3339,"date":"2016-01-01T22:25:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2018-10-06T22:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T22:42:21","slug":"past-theme-2016-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=3339","title":{"rendered":"2016-2017 SEMINAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>THEME: Emotions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past decade and a half emotions have moved to the forefront of scientific investigation, humanistic inquiry, and artistic practice. This development owes much to research in the neurosciences, which has challenged scholars in the arts and humanities to reframe their endeavors in light of the new perspectives opened up by the neural age. But other developments have played their part as well: the rise of social media and of new social movements, the global phenomenon of \u201cterror\u201d, and the impact of on-going processes of dislocation, conflict, and trauma in the early 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standing at the intersection of science, the humanities, and the arts, emotions have emerged as interdisciplinary objects par excellence. This seminar is open to faculty who engage with the topic of emotions from a wide range of perspectives. Participants may explore the representation and mobilization of emotion in art, literature, film and music; the question of whether emotions have a history, and conversely, whether they make history; the implications of emotions studies for philosophical practice; and the role played by fear, empathy, passion, and guilt, in politics, religion, and war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Readings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>William Reddy, \u201cHistorical Research on the Self and Emotions\u201d, in\u00a0<em>Emotion Review\u00a0<\/em>1,4 (2009): 302-315<\/li><li>Jan Plamper,\u00a0<em>The History of Emotions: An Introduction\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford 2015), Intro, chs. 1, 3<\/li><li>Jesse Prinz, \u201cThe Emotional Basis of Moral Judgments,\u201d\u00a0<em>Philosophical Explorations\u00a0<\/em>9,1 (2006)<\/li><li>Jesse Prinz,\u00a0<em>The Emotional Construction of Morals\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford 2007), ch. 2<\/li><li>Ruth Leys, \u201cThe Turn to Affect: A Critique,\u201d\u00a0<em>Critical Inquiry\u00a0<\/em>37 (2011)<\/li><li>Joseph Ledoux, TBA<\/li><li>Giuliana Bruno,\u00a0<em>Atlas of the Emotions: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film\u00a0<\/em>(Verso 2002), selections<\/li><li>Corey Robin,\u00a0<em>Fear: History of a Political Idea\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford 2004), Intro, ch 1-3<\/li><li>Sianne Ngai,\u00a0<em>Ugly Feelings\u00a0<\/em>(Harvard 2005)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Guest Speakers<\/strong><br\/>Jesse Prinz, CUNY Graduate Center<br\/>Joseph LeDoux, NYU<br\/>Ruth Leys, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Participant List<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><strong>Andrea Weiss,<\/strong>\u00a0Documentary Filmmaker &amp; Nonfiction Author<\/li><li><strong>Andreas Killen<\/strong>,\u00a0Professor of History<\/li><li><strong>Chad Kidd,<\/strong>\u00a0Publishing Author<\/li><li><strong>Elazar Elhanan,<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant\u00a0professor of Jewish Studies<\/li><li><strong>Elizabeth Mazzola,<\/strong>\u00a0Professor of English<\/li><li><strong>Jeffrey Blustein<\/strong>, Professor of Bioethics and Professor of Philosophy<\/li><li><strong>John Blanton,<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor of History<\/li><li><strong>Jonathan Pieslak,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Professor and Composer<\/li><li><strong>Hidetaka Hirota,\u00a0<\/strong>Visiting Assistant Professor of History<\/li><li><strong>V\u00e1clav Paris,<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor of English<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEME: Emotions Over the past decade and a half emotions have moved to the forefront of scientific investigation, humanistic inquiry, and artistic practice. 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