Call For Papers -- Emotions in Russian History and Culture

[Sandra Evans]

Dear SEELANGerS,

Following is a call for papers for an upcoming conference on "Emotions in
Russian History and Culture" in English and Russian. You will find  
application details and contact information at the end of each  
announcement.

Best regards,

Sandra Evans
University of Tuebingen


Emotions in Russian History and Culture

Emotions are one of the most powerful forces in history and culture. At the
same time they are one of the most difficult to get at. When the Humanities
and Social Sciences first turned to emotions in the late 1930s, they viewed
them as culturally universal and timeless. For example, Norbert Elias in his
*The Civilizing Process* (1939) presents modernity as a process of affect
control, but does not allow for an understanding of affect as a constructed
category that changes over time. Likewise for Lucien Febvre the emotions had
a place in history and therefore deserved a place in historiography, but
they had no history (see his famous article "Sensibility and History: How to
Reconstitute the Emotional Life of the Past," 1941; "La sensibilité et
l'histoire. Comment reconstituer la vie affective d'autrefois"). This
universalist paradigm was challenged during the 1970s when American
anthropologists began uncovering an enormous variety of emotional expression
in different cultures. Catherine Lutz in *Unnatural Emotions: Everyday
Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western
Theory *(1988)
showed how Ifaluk males cried profusely?not as an expression of grief, but
rather as a means of marking status difference: the higher up in the social
hierarchy his interlocutor, the more tears an Ifaluk shed. Lutz concluded,
"emotional experience is not precultural but preeminently cultural" (p. 5).
In the late 1980s another paradigm change was ushered in. The findings of
such experiment-based life sciences as neurobiology and cognitive psychology
began casting doubt on the social constructionist, cultural relativist
approach that had been dominant during the preceding decade. The life
sciences inspired a revival of universalism that left few questions of the
Humanities untouched?free will and memory, to name two. Over the past few
years, the initial enthusiasm about the applicability of the life sciences
in the Humanities has given way to a more sober attitude. William
Reddy in *The
Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions* (2001)
provides a synthetic approach that joins the findings of constructionist
anthropology and the universalist life sciences and on this basis develops
the most elaborate theory of a history of the emotions that we have to date.


   Humanities research on emotions now is in full swing; some have identified
an "emotional turn." This emotional turn is just beginning to reach Russian
studies. The aim of our joint French-German-Russian conference is to bring
together works-in-progress on emotions in Russian history and culture, to
invite rereadings from an emotions perspective, and to spawn new research in
this exciting new field. We deliberately encourage submissions on all
periods of history. The geographic focus of the conference is a broadly
conceived geographic-cultural space of the former Soviet Union.


   The following is a?by no means exhaustive?list of issues papers might touch
upon:

- Cultural representations of emotions. How did cultural products (from
literature, theater, film, visual arts, music, and others) represent
emotions? What was the relationship between these representations and the
construction of emotions in other fields, such as the sciences (psychology,
medicine)? How did translation and cultural transfer (e.g. with Western
Europe) impact Russian representations of emotions? And what was Russia's
contribution to cultural representations of emotions in other countries?

- Emotional response to cultural products. What kinds of emotional responses
did cultural products elicit in cultural consumers? Which strategies did
writers and others employ in order to induce the emotional reactions they
intended? What, in short, can be gained from factoring emotions into
cultural reception, such as the sociology of reading?

- Genealogies of emotions. Many emotions at some point were "silent"
entities?physical rather than verbal, experienced rather than named. How was
this silence broken? How, for instance, do we account for the fact that
soldierly "fear" hardly entered the record of the War of 1812 but was all
over memoirs and diaries surrounding the First World War?

- Emotions as objects of "scientific" disciplines. How did various
disciplines (e.g. psychiatry, philosophy, ethnography) construct emotions as
objects of scientific inquiry? How did scientific inquiry constitute
emotions as "real" entities, how exactly?by means of which strategies,
maneuvers, and operations?did sciences achieve the reification of emotions?

- Dispassionate passion: scientific discovery and emotions. Since the
nineteenth century scientific research has presented itself as objective,
value-free, and empirically grounded?in short, as being independent of
emotions. At the same time and paradoxically, fervent passion for a field is
seen as an unabashedly positive characteristic of the researcher. A close
reading of purportedly objective scientific presentations or theories can
reveal how emotions work their way back into the texts of science.

- Construction of communities around emotions. Many national, ethnic,
gender, and religious communities maintain images of themselves as being
united by distinct emotional styles or essential emotional qualities.
Nineteenth-century Slavophiles, for example, viewed themselves as having
more "soul" and being more emotional, and emotional in specific ways, than
their Westernizing counterparts. What can be said about the identity
construction of various communities via emotions? What was the role of
distancing from purported antipodes, or, how did "the Other" figure in these
identity constructions?

- Affect control and the "civilizing process." If the thesis (pace Norbert
Elias) that becoming modern means controlling one's affects has some
validity, what can Russia's twisted path to modernity contribute to this
story?

- Begriffsgeschichte of emotions. How can we describe diachronically the
changing semantics of emotional concepts (e.g. khandra, toska, liubov')?
What can a causality-oriented history?a history with an interest in the
"Why?" question?contribute to an explanation of the ruptures in this
semantics?

- Emotional education. How do different socializing institutions?from
families and friends to schools and the Party?instil distinct emotional
norms? How do these emotional norms overlap and conflict with emotional
norms instilled in other contexts, how, in short, do different "emotional
regimes" (William Reddy) and "emotional communities" (Barbara Rosenwein)
interact?

- Emotions and historical actions. How did emotions structure human actions,
e.g. in a meeting of two heads of state or a battle during a war? How can we
approach this question, given that emotions are often referred to obliquely
or indirectly?

- Emotions and historical memory. Once it has turned into history, time?in
its myriad man-made divisions, from "hours" to "epochs"?is often remembered
by distinct emotional characteristics. For example, in official Soviet
discourse of the 1930s the year 1935 stood for merriment (cf. Stalin's
dictum, "Life has become more joyous, comrades, life has become easier!")
while 1937 signified general angst and concrete fear of enemies. How do
temporal units get ascribed emotional epithets? What consequences does this
have? How, for instance, are generations constituted who remember the late
Soviet Union as a time of emotional "warmth"? And what does "warmth" mean
here?

*Organizational Information*

The organizers have applied for funding at the Centre franco-russe en
sciences humaines et sociales de Moscou (CFRSHS) and Deutsches Historisches
Institut Moskau (DHI). Pending approval of this funding, the conference will
take place on the premises of CFRSHS and DHI at Institut nauchnoi
informatsii po obshchestvennym naukam Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk (INION RAN)
in Moscow. The sponsoring institutions would cover the costs for travel and
accommodation of all participants.

Conference date: 2-5 April 2008.

Abstracts in Russian or English (maximum length: 500 words) of the paper you
intend to give should be sent to* emotionshistory at mail.ru*

Your abstract should include your email address and institutional
affiliation, the title of your intended paper, and the abstract text.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 July 2007.

Notification of applicants: no later than September 2007.

Chosen participants will then be asked to submit article-length (at a
maximum of 10,000 words) original papers in Russian or English no later than
1 February 2008. The papers will be precirculated among all participants so
that there is ample time to read them before the conference.


The papers will be grouped in thematic panels. Paper presentations at the
conference will be limited to 15 minutes. At each panel one conference
participant will moderate and comment briefly on the papers. The working
language of the conference is Russian?no translation services.

After the conference authors will rework their papers for publication in a
volume to appear in 2009.


We are looking forward to reading your proposals!

Conference organizers:

- Marc Elie, Ph.D. (Centre franco-russe en sciences humaines et sociales de
Moscou) (marc.elie at inion.ru )
- Jan Plamper, Ph.D. (University of Tübingen) (jan.plamper at uni-tuebingen.de)
- Prof. Dr. Schamma Schahadat (University of Tübingen) (
schamma.schahadat at uni-tuebingen.de


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???????????? ???????????:
Marc Elie, Ph.D. (??????-?????????? ????? ???????????? ? ????????????  
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Jan Plamper, Ph.D. (??????????? ????????) (jan.plamper at uni-tuebingen.de)
Prof. Dr. Schamma Schahadat (??????????? ????????)  
(schamma.schahadat at uni-tuebingen.de)

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