Rethinking Emotions from a Historical Perspective.
Interdisciplinary Workshop for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers
In what ways do contemporary and past political projects mobilize emotions and affect? How do emotions become part of cultural policy and anchors for diverse social identifications? What do analyses of emotionality from a historical perspective tell us about the social constuction of emotions, and how can they help us understand the points of encounter between an individual body and broader social forces? Finally, in what ways do a researcher’s emotions enter into the methodological design of research, and is it at all possible (and theoretically productive) to exclude them?
These were some of the themes of the doctoral conference Rethinking Emotions from a Historical Perspective, held on 4th and 5th September at the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in Prague. The conference was also attended by research group member Eva Fekonja, who presented a paper about the affective dimensions of relations to (imaginaries of) folk music and folk life among women choral singers.
Insert from the presentation, tittled: The primacy of the Political? Musical Emotions, Collective Singing and Balkan music.
