Qu’est ce que l’émotion d’un savant ? Une histoire émotionnelle du savoir, XVIIe-XXIe siècle
Virtual talk on knowledge and the history of emotions organized by CAK – Centre Alexandre-Koyré (Paris). Guest speaker: Françoise Waquet (Paris-Sorbonne). Discussants: Damien Boquet (Aix-Marseille) and Serge Reubi (CAK) Plaisir […]
The Early Modern Quarantine Conference
A Twitter conference on the theme “The Historian, like the Iconoclast” organized by EMQuon. Panel 5: ‘Stories of the past are what propel us on’: Contemporary Theatrical Responses to Pandemic, […]
History of the Book Conference: Bibliophilia and Bibliophobia
Online conference organized by the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) at Durham University. This 2-day conference on ‘Bibliophilia and bibliophobia’ in the medieval and early modern history […]
The Decline of Magic? Workshop II
Virtual workshop series organized by Jan Machielsen (Cardiff) and William Pooley (Bristol). In the almost fifty years that have passed since the appearance of Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline […]
Early Modern Wonder
The next Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy will be dedicated to “Early Modern Wonder”. Before Wonder: Pre-Cartesian Taxonomies of the Passions – Daniel Samuel (Warburg Institute) Malebranche on the […]
Pestilence, Disease, and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Art
14th Annual Imago Conference, University of Haifa. Organizing committee: Gil Fishhof, Mazi Kuzi, Jochai Rosen, Margo Stroumsa-Uzan. Tuesday, 12 January 2021 9:00-9:30 Greetings and Opening Remarks Efraim Lev, Dean — […]
Experiencing the Material Body in Early Modern Europe
Online workshop at the University of Stockholm on the body in early modernity, organized by Karin Sennefelt and Anton Runesson. Wednesday 16 June Sasha Handley (University of Manchester) – Lusty […]
Healing Sickness in the Warrior Soul
The next Medieval Studies Lecture Series at Loyola University Chicago will host Nicole Archambeau (Colorado State University) on “Healing Sickness in the Warrior Soul: Violence, Shame, and Fear in the […]
Theories of Emotion in Seventeenth-Century England
For the next Work-in-Progress webinar at the Warburg Institute, Daniel Samuel (Warburg Institute) will give a talk entitled “Broken Hearts and Passions of the Soul: Theories of Emotion in Seventeenth-Century […]
The Anatomy of Love and Melancholy in Literary and Medical Texts
The next Edinburgh Early Modern Network Seminar will host a hybrid session on “The anatomy of love and melancholy in French literary and medical texts of the late Renaissance” with […]