Group blog
We are a group of research associates in the humanities in Australia, part of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at the Universities of Western Australia, Melbourne, Adelaide, Queensland, and Sydney.
Individually, collectively, and collaboratively, we’re all working on the description, representation, and experience of emotions in pre-modern Europe, especially in the period 1100-1800.
This blog documents the process of researching emotions from the perspective of the Australian humanities. It tells the unfolding story of our research into the ‘histories of emotion’ across time and place, and archives some of our own emotional lives as early-career researchers in that process.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Emotions History Contemporary Australia Literature Early Modern Popular Culture Australian history Art Shaping the Modern Humanities Meanings performance Change material culture Religion Environment Politics Music Gender Medieval
Unsettling Certainties: Emotions Exhibited.
22 November 2023
Portrait of a Lady, Kevin Connor, 1965. University of Adelaide Art Collection In support of the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Society for the History of Emotions, the exhibition...
Exhibition Reflection: Creativity and the Uncanny
21 November 2023
By Sonia Cancian This is one of a series of responses to our Exhibition Unsettling Certainties: Emotions Exhibited. For a taste, please click here. Unsettling certainties,...
Exhibition Reflection: Grounding Feelings
21 November 2023
By Diana G. Barnes A reflection on Grounding Feelings focussing on Titania’s speech, Judith Wright’s poem ‘Gum-Trees Stripping’, and Robert D. FitzGerald’s poem ‘Song...
Exhibition Reflection: Unsettled and Uncertain Organs of Feeling
21 November 2023
By Kirk Essary This is one of a series of responses to our Exhibition Unsettling Certainties: Emotions Exhibited. For a taste, please click here. To prepare this bit of commentary,...