Tuesday 21 May until Wednesday 22 May, 2019at 09:30 - 14:00
HD108, Humanities Building
Umeå University May 21-22, 2019
Umeå Group for Premodern studies invites you to a joint seminar and workshop. The Open seminar will adress "The Pedagogy of Virtue in Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Culture" and the following workshop will focus on "Body, Emotion and Morality".
Emotions are simultaneously grounded in both our bodies and in societal systems of moral meanings and ethical values. As such, emotions involve not only physiological arousal, expressive behaviours, and conscious experience but personal and cultural evaluations of what is considered to be good or bad and right or wrong. Ethical values and concepts can thus be experienced and expressed through emotions and vice versa in a dynamic relation. Cultural evaluations refer to different religious, social or legal frameworks and are also shaped by gender, social class and conceptions of race. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines who offer new perspectives on how bodies, emotions and morality have been intertwined in different historical and cultural contexts.
