Colloquium

Most of the colloquia will take place on site in the large conference room of the MPIB, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, at 17:00 CET.

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Programm Winter Semester 2023/24

24.10.2023 
Michael Zank (Boston University)
Fear, contempt, and anger: Christian, Jewish, and Islamic blasphemy and attendant emotions

31.10.2023 
Bin Xu (Emory University/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
When the state cries and when it doesn‘t: politics of sentiments in disasters

23.11.2023
Annelie Drakman (Stockholm University)
Joy in science: analysing positive emotions in self-descriptions by Nobel laureates in physics

05.12.2023  - online
Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po Paris)
The moral economy of transnational solidarity: emotions, money, and reciprocity between European workers

12.12.2023
Fabian Weber (Institute for the History of the German Jews)
Compassion mobilised: emotional agitation against Kosher Slaughter and „Jewish Cruelty“

09.01.2024 - online
Zhaokun Xin (University of Manchester)
Patience and transcendence: anger in deliverance plays of Late Imperial China

16.01.2024
Hervé Mazurel (University of Burgundy)
The psyche and the social-historical: “Troubles d’époque et sensibilités collectives” (19th-21st century)

23.01.2024
Katherine Ibbett (University of Oxford)
Jaques Cartier: empire, emotion, translation

30.01.2024
Kim Siebenhüner (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Remorse: from Inquisition to emotion research?

06.02.2024
Claudia Verhoeven (Cornell University/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
„The Love and Terror Cult“: a revolutionary history of the Manson family

13.02.2024
Bettina Hitzer (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
All about love? The history of child adooption in West Germany