Teaching Emotions History: A Conversation with Professor Katie Barclay and Professor Sasha Turner
Monday 7 April, 14.00-16.30, MB0.08 (Mathematical Sciences Building)
The history of emotions emerged as a field in the later 20thcentury with scholars seeking to uncover the ways in which feeling has shaped the past. Over the past few decades studies have encompassed treatment of individual emotions including anger, fear, and sadness, as well as broader conceptions such as communities, regimes, and performance. Emotion has been applied as a lens to a wide range of historical topics including war, psychiatry, and the legal system. In recent years attention has increasingly turned to how we teach emotions history, and the importance of the emotions of the researcher.
This session brings together Professor Katie Barclay (Macquarie) and Professor Sasha Turner (John Hopkins) to discuss the incorporation of emotions methodology into teaching and the role of academic emotions.
All are welcome to attend, whether you are already including emotions in your teaching or interested to learn more. PGR and ECR participants are especially encouraged.
Tea, coffee and cakes will be provided on arrival.
Please contact the event organiser Imogen Knox (Imogen.H.Knox@warwick.ac.uk) for more information.
Katie Barclay
Professor Katie Barclay is a Future Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University. She is an internationally leading expert in the history of emotions, gender and family life.
Sasha Turner
Professor Sasha Turner is a historian of the Caribbean at Johns Hopkins, with current special interest in the period of colonialism and enslavement. She is especially interested in understanding the lives of women and children and how they navigated racial and gendered subjectivities.