The project hosted two workshops that were intended to provide a venue to foster a dialogue across particular linguistic and geographic regions. The first workshop was held in Utrecht in November 2019 and the second, held online, was hosted by St John’s College, University of Oxford. A third symposium on the interactive nature of emotion and genre was held in Venice, hosted by Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice in September 2022 (postponed from the previous autumn). The series of workshops and events culminated in a final conference that was held at the University of Iceland 25-27 May 2022, where both workshop participants and scholars from around the world gathered together to discuss emotion and selfhood in medieval literature and culture.
Final conference – University of Iceland & National Museum of Iceland
25-27 May 2022
The final conference was hosted by the University of Iceland and held in the National Museum of Iceland. Scholars from the US, Europe and Australia gathered together to discuss and debate the representations of emotion and selfhood across a broad range of medieval sources and a multitude of European vernaculars. The conference programme can be found here: Emotion and Self-Programme.
Emotion & Genre, International Symposium, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice
22-23 September 2022
The international symposium on ´Emotion & Genre’ formed part of the final work package of the project, with a focus on the intersection and interaction of emotion (as a phenomenon) and genre (as a literary framework and modality). The symposium was hosted by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and formed part of a collaboration between the project on ‘Emotion and the Medieval Self’ and the research project ‘Modes of Modification: Variance and Change in Medieval Manuscript Culture’.
Workshop 2 – St John’s College, Oxford
25-26 March 2021
The second workshop, initially slated for March 2020, was finally held online and hosted by St John’s College, University of Oxford. Textual discussion was divided into three sections: French, English, and Celtic (Welsh, Irish, and Scots). The project once again invited experts, from junior to senior scholars, to explore the performance of emotion and medieval selfhood. A full report on the second workshop can be found here.
Workshop 1 – Utrecht University
13-15 November 2019
The first workshop was generously hosted by Utrecht University and encompassed the Germanic cultural realm, including Scandinavia, medieval Flanders, Germany and the Lowland territories. The project invited experts, from junior to senior scholars, to debate questions of terminology, approaches and the concept of literary emotions. A full report on the first workshop can be found here.
