DFG Research Training Group 1599 „Dynamics of Space and Gender: discovering – conquering – inventing – narrating”
Time: 23rd October 2012, 10.00am-17.00pm
Venue: Universität Kassel, Untere Königsstraße 86, 34117 Kassel, 4.0G
Registration: 05th October 2012, Program-PDF
Why do emotions matter? Scholars from manifold disciplines dedicate their research to this question. Focusing on the Humanities the research of emotions has become a widely expanding and highly productive subfield. In the last decade a variety of different approaches has been developed. The workshop seeks to bring together positions elaborated in History and Sociology in order to initialise an interdisciplinary dialogue. As disciplines of the Social Sciences, both History and Sociology are deeply interconnected. Therefore the aim of the workshop is to elaborate the links as well as the limitations of the interdisciplinary discussion. As a general introduction to the topic, three talks will … read more (PDF)