CFP: "Interpreting Emotion in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia�

[Lynda Park]

Call for Papers: "Interpreting Emotion in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia” 

Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum, June 19-21, 2008   
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign

Organizers: Mark Steinberg (History, Slavic Review) and Valeria Sobol (Slavic 
Languages and Literatures)
 
The 2008 Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum will be held at the University of Illinois 
in Urbana-Champaign, beginning on the evening of Thursday June 19 and 
concluding Saturday June 21, 2008, on the topic of “interpreting emotion in 
eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia.” This conference will be a 
multidisciplinary exploration of emotion and its cultural representations in 
eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia from the 19th century to the present, 
especially in public life, as well as a critical consideration of how we approach 
the study of emotion. Only relatively recently have scholars begun to study 
systematically and deeply emotional perception and expression as not 
merely “private” inward feeling but as ways of interpreting and judging the 
external world and acting in it. We are seeking proposals for papers that 
explore both questions of method and particular histories, ethnographies, and 
cultural expressions of emotion. Topics that might be examined, for example, 
include emotions and political culture, emotions and gender, emotions and the 
body, emotions and the public sphere, and individual emotions such as love, 
anger, shame, and melancholy. Historians, literary scholars, art historians, 
anthropologists, sociologists, musicologists, psychologists and other disciplines 
are encouraged to propose papers.  Please send proposals for papers 
(maximum 1 page) and a brief CV to steinb at uiuc.edu and vsobol at uiuc.edu by 
May 31, 2007 (you may also contact us with questions).  Subject to funding, 
we expect to be able to cover participants’ expenses for travel and lodging. 
 
For more information on the Fisher Forum series see: 
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/events/fisher.html

Mark D. Steinberg
Professor, Department of History 
Editor, Slavic Review
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/steinb/www/main.htm 

Department of History, University of Illinois
416 Gregory Hall   810 S. Wright Street
Urbana IL 61801   (MC-466)
tel. 217.244.2082   fax 217.333.2297

Slavic Review
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Champaign, IL 61820-6601 
tel. 217.333.3621   fax: 217.333.3872 
email: slavrev at uiuc.edu 
URL: http://www.slavicreview.uiuc.edu/

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