Empathy, Ethics, Aesthetics: Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar – Call For Applications

Empathy, Ethics, Aesthetics
ARC Centre for the History of Emotions (Sydney Node)
Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS)

Date: Thursday October 23, 2014
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Venue: The Rogers Room, John Woolley Building, The University of Sydney, NSW

Places are limited, so please visit historyofemotions.org.au/events for details on how to apply.

For more information please contact: gabriel.watts@sydney.edu.au

Does your research deal with the relationship between empathy (or sympathy or compassion) and ethical problems? Do you find yourself thinking about the role of empathy in large cultural systems like the legal system, or how empathy relates to, creates, or even problematizes, cultural and behavioural norms? Are you interested in the function of shared emotions in literature or religion?

This Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS), run by the Sydney Node of the Centre for the History of Emotions, will bring students together with established scholars to discuss these issues and more.

Specialists in the fields of Philosophy, Literature, Early Modern Studies, and Religious Studies will speak from their own perspectives about the interplay of ethics, aesthetics and empathy, and you will have the opportunity to work through the particular issues that affect your research in conversation with them.

The PATS will take place the day after the Centre for the History of Emotions’ ‘Ethics of Empathy’ Symposium, to be held at the State Library of NSW on October 22. Both events are free and will provide you with two days of stimulating, focused discussion relating to your research.

Instructors

  • Prof Yasmin Haskell (UWA, CHE)
  • Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie)
  • Dr Jay Johnston (Sydney)
  • Dr Helen Day (Central Lancashire)

Cost
There is no cost for this PATS, places are limited however to ensure the day is focused. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, please advise of any dietary requirements when applying.

Bursaries are available for students from outside the Sydney area. If you are intending to apply for a bursary please submit an application form plus a short academic reference before 2 October 2014. Applicants will hear back shortly after Oct 2.

Readings
Each workshop will focus on a short text, or selections from a text. Optional background reading may also be provided. The texts will be made available online shortly (for more information please email gabriel.watts@sydney.edu.au)