Colloquium: From ‘L'histoire des sensibilités’ to ‘Sensibilités. Histoire, critique & sciences sociales’

The Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, led by Prof. Ute Frevert, cordially presents its winter semester 2020/2021 colloquium:

QUENTIN DELUERMOZ, UNIVERSITÉ PARIS AND THOMAS DODMAN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

From ‘L'histoire des sensibilités’ to ‘Sensibilités. Histoire, critique & sciences sociales’In this presentation Quentin Deluermoz and Thomas Dodman trace a genealogy of l’histoire des sensibilités, teasing out certain differences between this francophone historiographical tradition and the history of emotions as it has crystallized over the past two decades. Deluermoz and Dodman emphasize the social groundings of l’histoire des sensibilités and its contributions to a history of the social, highlighting two areas of research in particular: thresholds of sensibility and political paroxysms on the one hand; social incorporation and social biography on the other. With these and other examples, they illustrate the interdisciplinary work they’ve been conducting since 2016 in the journal Sensibilités: Histoire, critique & sciences sociales. Join the talk HERE Meeting number (access code): 175 362 0466Meeting password: 8MpwpxiN856 Quentin Deluermoz, Professor of History at University of Paris, is a specialist of orders and disorders in the 19th century (France, Europe, empires) and of the epistemology of History and the Social Sciences. He has just published Commune(s), 1870-1871. Une traversée des mondes au XIXe siècle, Paris, Seuil, 2020.His other publications include (with P. Singaravelou) Pour une histoire des possibles. Approches contrefactuelles et futurs non advenus (Paris, Seuil, 2016); A Past of Possibilities: a History of what it could have been (Yale UP, forthcoming); Le Crépuscule des révolutions, 1848-1871, Paris, coll., ‘Histoire de France Contemporaine’, T. III (Seuil, 2014); andPoliciers dans la ville. La construction d’un ordre public à Paris (1854-1914) (Paris, Editions de la Sorbonne, 2012). With other colleagues he also created the interdisciplinary journal Sensibilités, Histoire, Sciences Sociale et critique in 2015. Thomas Dodmanis a historian of Modern Europe and an Assistant Professor in the Department of French at Columbia University. He is the author of What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire and the Time of a Deadly Emotion (Chicago, 2018) and the coeditor of Une Histoire de la guerre du XIXe siècle à nos jours (Seuil, 2018). He coedits the journal Sensibilités: Histoire, critique & sciences sociales (Anamosa) and was previously associate editor at Emotion Review (Sage).He has just completed a special issue of French Historical Studies on epistolary exchanges and is currently working on a microhistory tentatively titled When Emile Went to War. Dodman read history at University College London and obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2011. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2016-17 and is currently a fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Research at Princeton University.