Month: June 2022

The team presented their research at the Emotion & Self conference:

Timothy Bourns (University of British Columbia); ‘Feline Feelings: Animal Emotionality and the Lions of Yvain’

Meritxell Risco de la Torre (University of Iceland); ‘“De voix femmenine”: Jean d’Arra’s Mélusine and the Prevalence of Self through Voice and Emotive Display’

Caroline Batten (University of Iceland); ‘Illness, Emotion, and the Embodied Self in the Old Norse Textual Tradition’

Emotion and the Medieval Self: Roundtable
Moderator: Caroline Batten (University of Iceland)
Participants:
Guillemette Bolens (University of Geneva)
Frank Brandsma (Utrecht University)
Gareth Evans (University of Oxford)
Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford)
Raluca Radulescu (Bangor University)
Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (University of Iceland)
Annette Volfing (University of Oxford)

We have now concluded a very successful and engaging conference with participants from around the world on Emotion & the Medieval Self, debating and exploring medieval selfhood and its connection and interrelation with emotionality. Below is an overview of the schedule:

Emotion and Self-Programme

The research team hosted a doctoral workshop 24 May 2022 led by Carolyne Larrington and Frank Brandsma. The workshop was open to doctoral students in the Humanities at the University of Iceland and to doctoral students attending the conference Emotion & the Medieval Self and we had a lovely interdisciplinary group with students from archaeology, literature, linguistics, medieval studies and history discussing emotion theory, their doctoral research and, of course and most importantly, making friends!