The Australian Centre and the Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE) are presenting the 6th Biennial Conference of the Australian Animal Studies Group at the University of Melbourne from July 12-15, 2015. The call for papers is now open. We want to hear from scholars, academics, activists and thinkers. Abstracts of 250 words are due Monday 22 December, 2014, please send to aasg-conference@unimelb.edu.au Conference website: http://humananimal.arts.unimelb.edu.au/news/call-papers-animal-publics-emotions-empathy-activism Call for papers The human/nonhuman animal relationship is continually in flux. In the twenty-first century our relationship with other species is more…
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Symposium | Feeling Exclusion: Emotional Strategies and Burdens of Religious Discrimination and Displacement in Early Modern Europe
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Feeling Exclusion: Emotional Strategies and Burdens of Religious Discrimination and Displacement in Early Modern Europe 29-31 May 2014, University of Melbourne Discrimination and exclusion have long been strategies used by authorities to maintain authority and control. Fundamental to the success of such strategies, and ultimately also to their removal, is the role of emotion. The aim of this symposium is to explore an important stage in the European history of exclusion between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a time when political and religious upheaval forced an unprecedented number of people to…
Study Day | Relics and Emotions - Centre for the History of Emotions
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Centre for the History of Emotions | Relics and Emotions Study Day March 21st 2014, University of Melbourne Relics are the bodily remains of saints, or objects that came into contact with saints during their lives or after their death. Relics may be preserved bodies or bones, either whole, as fragments, or as detachable body parts such as hair, teeth and blood. In the case of the resurrected body of Christ and the assumed body of the Virgin, Christ’s foreskin and the Virgin’s breast milk were venerated as relics. Items…