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From: Mark Seymour, University of Otago, mark.seymour@otago.ac.nz
List Editor: "Paul Arpaia, Indiana University of Pennsylvania" <paul.arpaia@IUP.EDU>
Editor's Subject: CFP-The Patriotism of the Expatriates (London, 27-28 November 2009)
Author's Subject: CFP-The Patriotism of the Expatriates
Date Written: October 26, 2009 11:54:24 PM EDT
Date Posted: Sat, 30 Oct 2009 12:20:47 -0400


Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) Annual Conference 2009

ITALY AND THE EMOTIONS: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE 18TH CENTURY TO THE
PRESENT

Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London
27-28 November 2009

Keynote speakers: Professor Alberto Mario Banti (University of Pisa)
Professor Luisa Passerini (University of Torino)
Special guest: Natalia Aspesi, journalist, La Repubblica

Starting from the premise that emotions are historically and
culturally conditioned, this conference focuses on emotions in
historical perspective in Italy – an area whose modes of social
interaction and cultural production have long had an influential role
in shaping ideas about emotions well beyond its own geographical
borders. Among the themes examined by over 65 speakers will be

	• Emotions, politics and public life
	• The emotions of war, colonial conquest, victory and defeat
	• Emotion in Italian art, music, literature and cinema
	• Fascism as a politics of emotion
	• The gendering of emotions
	• Religion and the emotional imagination
	• Italy’s international influence on concepts of emotion

The conference is the first of its kind, and as the range of themes
suggests, it offers valuable potential for interdisciplinary exchange.
The keynote speakers are internationally pioneering scholars whose
work on the emotions has led the way in re-thinking major areas of
research such as politics and war. As well as bringing together
established scholars from Europe, the USA, and Australasia, the
conference also provides a forum for younger researchers to contribute
to an approach that places emotions at the forefront of humanities
research rather than seeing them as a by-product of other historical
processes.

As the whole western world is increasingly forced to re-evaluate its
unsustainable addiction to consumption as the basis of happiness, this
focus on human emotions in historical perspective is particularly
timely. The conference therefore aims not only to develop new ways of
approaching research in its own subject areas, but also to contribute
to a broader process of reflection about the trajectories – past,
present and future – of western society.

The conference organizers are:
Penny Morris (University of Glasgow)
Francesco Ricatti (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia)
Mark Seymour (University of Otago, New Zealand).


The full programme and registration details are available at the IGRS
conference website:
http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences-workshops/asmi-conference.html

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