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Devotion, Objects and Emotion, 1300–1700 – Symposium

Devotion, Objects and Emotion, 1300–1700

Friday and Saturday, 16-17 March 2018.

Registrations (OPENING SOON): historyofemotions.org.au/events
Contact for further enquiries:
Julie Davies, daviesja@unimelb.edu.au , or 8344 5981

Religion is a cultural field in which emotions exercise a preeminent role. Feelings are integral to religion, and their significance is encapsulated in the concept of religious devotion. This symposium will focus on the relationships between religious devotion, objects and emotion in Europe between 1300 and 1700. Religious devotion promotes the exercise of a wide range of emotional expressions and behaviours that assume, communicate and give shape to the broader religious belief systems and cosmologies of which they are part. Objects used in religious practices accrue the power to arouse, channel and mediate our emotions; while their materiality and use in devotional practice can expand our understanding of the historical layering and expression of religious emotions, and how they change over time. In this way, devotional practices and objects provide a rich vantage point from which to explore the multifarious and fundamental role of emotions in individual and collective lives.

Venue:
Woodward Conference Centre,
The University of Melbourne, 10th floor,
Melbourne Law (Building 106),
185 Pelham Street, Carlton VIC 3053

Conveners:
Charles Zika
Julie Hotchin
Claire Walker
Lisa Beaven

Speakers will include:
Erin Griffey, The University of Auckland
Catherine Kovesi, The University of Melbourne
Matthew Martin, National Gallery of Victoria
Una McIlvenna, The University of Melbourne
Sarah Randles, The University of Melbourne
Katherine Rudy, University of St Andrews
Johanna Scheel, Philipps-University Marburg
Pat Simons, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Jenny Spinks, The University of Melbourne
Ulrike Strasser, University of California, San Diego
Jacqueline Van Gent, University of Western Australia
Anna Welch, State Library of Victoria