Emotions in Life and Theory Symposium

Please take the time to attend Friday, September 23rd the IHR Symposium, an ACMRS co-sponsored event, on “Emotions in Life and Theory.” One of the featured speakers is Barbara Rosenwein, a respected medieval scholar. For more information please see the attached flyer or contact the symposium organizer, Francoise Mirguet – francoise.mirguet@asu.edu.

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This Research Cluster symposium is presented by ASU’s Institute for Humanities Research, in
collaboration with the faculty of Religious Studies—School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious
Studies; the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Sandra Day O’Connor
College of Law, the School of International Letters and Cultures, and the Department of English.

Barbara Rosenwein

Barbara Rosenwein is an historian of the Middle Ages and Professor at Loyola University Chicago. Her many publications on emotions include the edited volume Anger’s Pas: The Social Uses of the Emotion in the Middle Ages (1998) and Emotional communities in the Early Middle Ages (2006).

Jerome Neu

Jerome Neu is Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has been Chair of the programs in Philosophy, Legal Studies, and History of Consciousness. He is editor of the Cambridge Companion to Freud (1991) and author of Emotion, Thought, and Therapy (1977), A Tear Is an Intellectual Thing: The Meanings of Emotion (2000), and Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults (2008).

Click here to see the flyer for the Symposium: IHR Symposium Event Flyer