[MGSA-L] Historein 3rd International Conference "On Emotions: History, Politics, Representations"

[Roland Moore]

From: "Antonis Liakos" <aliakos at otenet.gr>

Historein 3rd International Conference
Historein: a review of the past & other stories
3rd International Conference
"On Emotions: History, Politics, Representations"
Athens, May 18-20 2007
Amphitheatre "Theodore V. Karatzas Megaron"
National Bank of Greece, 82-84 Aeolou Street

PROGRAM
Friday, May 18
09:30-10:00
Greetings and Opening Remarks
Antonis Liakos, History of Emotions. Emotions and History.
10:00-11:40
Historicizing Emotions
Chair: Vangelis Karamanolakis
Jörn Rüsen, Emotional forces in historical thinking
Jina Politi, A new species of man: "The Man of Feeling"
Vasso Kindi, The historical understanding of emotions
Ioanna Laliotou, Hope, expectation, utopia: the history of non-synchrony
Discussion
11:40-12:00, Coffee/tea break
12:00-13:30
Lecture: Peter Stearns
The contemporary place of fear: The analytical uses of emotions history
Introduction: Antonis Liakos
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15:00-16:40
Rhetorics of Emotions and the Making of Subjectivity
Chair: Dimitra Makrinioti
Akis Leledakis, From emotions to the social subject
Yiorgos Xiropaidis, Emotion, reason, judgment: On Heidegger's rereading of
Aristotle’s Rhetoric
Gerasimos Vokos, Passions and Politics in the seventeenth century: Hobbes
and Spinoza
Haris Exertzoglou, Human passions: Medical discourse and the making of
subjectivity
Discussion
 
16:40-17:00, Coffee/tea break
17:00-18:40
Collective fears, public afflictions
Chair: Yiannis Yiannitsiotis
Costas Gaganakis, Stairway to heaven: Calvinist grief and redemption in
the French Wars of Religion
Nasia Yakovaki, Shifts in the public management of fear and pain in the
time of European Enlightenment (a propos of Lisbon's destruction by the
1755 earthquake)
Panayis Panagiotopoulos, Pain and sadness: Political sentiments of
struggle and social distinction during the post-war era and
post-dictatorship in Greece
Efi Gazi, Fear and moral panic: The “Atheika issue” in the town of Volos
(1908-1914)
Discussion
18:40-18:50, Coffee/tea break
18:50-20:10
Emotions and Subaltern Subjectivities
Chair: Efi Avdela
Dimitra Lambropoulou, Between afflictions and pride: Interpreting social
change in workers' testimonies about the 1960s
Pothiti Hantzaroula, Social suffering, emotional acts and the constitution
of subjectivity
Liopi Abatzi, "Profigate emotions": Money and desire in hostess bars
Discussion
 

Saturday, May 19
9:30-10:50
Social Passions: Performances of Suffering and Love in the Contemporary
World
Chair: Dimitra Gefou-Madianou
Alexandra Bakalaki, Poverty relief as emotion management
Eleftheria Deltsou, To give or not to give? Economies of guilt
Katerina Rozakou, The power of love: Emotion and power in voluntary work
Discussion
10:50-11:10, Coffee/tea break
11:10-12:40
Lecture: Mariella Pandolfi
>From emotions to social passions: Politics and violence in contemporary
perspectives
Introduction: Athena Athanasiou
12:40-12:50, Coffee/tea break
12:50-14:30
Visual Representations of Emotions
Chair: Mitsos Bilalis
Masayuki Sato, Representing human emotions in East Asian historiography
Elpida Rikou, Images and uses of pain in body art performances
Christina Konstantinidou, Death, lamentation and the photographic
representation of the Other during the Second Iraq War in Greek newspapers
Despoina Valatsou, History, our own stories, emotions online
Discussion
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16:00-18:00
Emotions and the Political
Chair: Stefanos Pesmazoglou
Gerasimos Kouzelis, “Emotional planning”: Adorno’s analysis of the
totalitarian discourse techniques
Spyros Marketos, The Heroic Colonel: Fascism and National Sentiment in
Postwar Greece
Maria Damilakou, Politics and emotions in Latin America: Peronism as
emotional consensus and conflict
Yiannis Stavrakakis, Affect in contemporary political analysis:
Poststructuralist cul-de-sacs and psychoanalytic re-orientations
Gregory Paschalidis, Between empathy and apathy. Emotions in contemporary
cultural criticism and politics
Discussion
18:00-18:10, Coffee/tea break
 
18:10-20:10
The nation as an emotional/sentimental drama
Chair: Efthymios Papataxiarchis
Eleni Papagaroufali, Of euro-symbols and euro-sentiments
Alberto Mario Banti, Deep images in nineteenth-century nationalist
narrative
Angela Castrinaki, From Valentine to Iakinthos and beyond: Inventing the
religion of eros
Mary Mike, Erotic relationships in nineteenth-century literary texts
Carlotta Sorba, Performing emotions: Theatricality and politics in
Risorgimento Italy
Discussion
20:10-20:20, Coffee/tea break
20:20-21:50
Lecture: Gil Anidjar
On Rats and Names (Reflections on Hate)
Introduction: Costas Yiannakopoulos
 
Sunday, May 20
9:30-11:30
Enterprising practices, work places, and practices of emotion
Chair: Maria Christina Hatziioannou
Caterina Papakonstantinou, Enterprising practices and emotions: The
imponderable factor in businesses, 18th-19th century
Ikaros Mantouvalos, Emotion and reason: An unbearable tug-of-war
Efi Canner, Management of emotions, social networks, and subjectivities in
Greek-speaking communities of the Balkans (19th-early 20th century): The
case of Sotiria Cleomenous-Alimberti
Eleni Beneki, "My heart ached on the thought that I could build up my job
again": A Jewish entrepreneur's autobiographical discourse in 20th century
Thessalonica
Despina Nazou, "Love and unity bring in prosperity": The management of
emotions in family-run businesses
Discussion
11:30-11:50, Coffee/tea break
11:50-13:10
Art and the depiction of emotion
Chair: Athena Syriatou
Penelope Petsini, Exploring emotions: An alternative reading of personal
snapshots based on Periklis Alkidis’s “Family Portraits” (1987-94)
Eleni Papargyriou, Photographs of the dead: From image to word to emotion
Delia Tzortzaki, Emotional individualism and representation: The case of
the museum as a contemporary “dream space”
Discussion
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16:00-18:00
Between grief and phantasmagoria: Emotions in Early Modern Europe
Chair: Henriette-Rika Benveniste
Nikos Karapidakis, Frustration and melancholia
Pantelis Bassakos, The passions of the soul (emotiones) in Rudolph
Agricola’s rhetorical dialectic
Olivier Zeller, Stakes, territories and actors of an «emotion». A case
study: Lyon, 1653
Anastasia Stouraiti, The Levant as meraviglia: Emotional representations
of Empire in Early Modern Venice
Eleftheria Zei, Relations of affection, relations of power: Death and
sorrow of kin in Eastern Mediterranean, 17th - 18th century
Discussion
18:00-18:20, Coffee/tea break
18:20-20:10
Closing Lecture/Conference Conclusions: Luisa Passerini
Introduction: Polymeris Voglis


List of Participants
Liopi Abatzi (University of the Aegean)
Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)
Athena Athanasiou (Panteio University of Social and Political Sciences)
Efi Avdela (University of Crete)
Alexandra Bakalaki (University of Thessaloniki)
Alberto Mario Banti (University of Pisa)
Pantelis Bassakos (Panteio University of Social and Political Sciences)
Eleni Beneki (University of the Ionian)
Henriette-Rika Benveniste (University of Thessaly)
Mitsos Bilalis (University of Thessaly)
Efi Canner (University of Athens)
Angela Castrinaki (University of Crete)
Maria Damilakou (University of the Ionian)
Eleftheria Deltsou (University of Thessaly)
Haris Exertzoglou (University of the Aegean)
Costas Gaganakis (University of Athens)
Efi Gazi (University of Thessaly)
Dimitra Gefou-Madianou (Panteio University of Social and Political
Sciences)
Pothiti Hantzaroula (University of the Aegean)
Maria Christina Hatziioannou (National Research Foundation)
Vangelis Karamanolakis (Contemporary Social History Archives)
Nikos Karapidakis (University of the Ionian)
Vasso Kindi (University of Athens)
Christina Konstantinidou (University of Crete)
Gerasimos Kouzelis (University of Athens)
Ioanna Laliotou (University of Thessaly)
Dimitra Lambropoulou (University of Athens)
Akis Leledakis (Panteio University of Social and Political Sciences)
Antonis Liakos (University of Athens)
Dimitra Makrinioti (University of Athens)
Ikaros Mantouvalos (University of Athens)
Spyros Marketos (University of Thessaloniki)
Mary Mike (University of Thessaloniki)
Despina Nazou (University of the Aegean)
Panayis Panagiotopoulos (University of Athens)
Mariella Pandolfi (University of Montreal)
Eleni Papagaroufali (Panteio University of Social and Political Sciences)
Caterina Papakonstantinou (University of the Ionian)
Eleni Papargyriou (Oxford University)
Efthymios Papataxiarchis (University of the Aegean)
Gregory Paschalidis (University of Thessaloniki)
Luisa Passerini (University of Turin)
Stefanos Pesmazoglou (Panteio University of Social and Political Sciences)
Penelope Petsini (Technical School of Athens)
Jina Politi (University of Thessaloniki)
Elpida Rikou (Panteio University of Social and Political Sciences)
Jörn Rüsen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen)
Katerina Rozakou (University of the Aegean)
Masayuki Sato (University of Yamanashi)
Carlotta Sorba (University of Padua)
Yiannis Stavrakakis (University of Thessaloniki)
Peter Stearns (George Mason University)
Anastasia Stouraiti (European University Institute, Florence)
Athena Syriatou (University of Thrace)
Delia Tzortzaki (Ministry of Culture)
Despoina Valatsou (University of Thessaloniki)
Polymeris Voglis (University of Thessaly)
Gerasimos Vokos (University of Thessaloniki)
Yiorgos Xiropaidis (University of Athens)
Nasia Yakovaki (University of Thessaly)
Costas Yiannakopoulos (University of the Aegean)
Yiannis Yiannitsiotis (University of the Aegean)
Eleftheria Zei (University of Patras)
Olivier Zeller (Centre d'Études démographiques, Lyon)

Organizing Committee
Athena Athanasiou (Panteio University of Social and Political Sciences)
Haris Exertzoglou (University of the Aegean)
Pothiti Hantzaroula (University of the Aegean)
Antonis Liakos (University of Athens)
Athena Syriatou (University of Thrace)
Despoina Valatsou (University of Thessaloniki)
Costas Yiannakopoulos (University of the Aegean)
Websites: www.historein.gr & http://www.nnet.gr/historein.htm
E-mail: historein at historein.gr

Sponsors
National Bank of Greece
John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation
THE J.F. COSTOPOULOS FOUNDATION
The usage of the Amphitheatre "Theodore V. Karatzas Megaron" is made
possible due to a kind offer by the National Bank of Greece
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