Friday, September 25
1:45pm-3:35pm
Room: 324

Affects and Emotions in the Long Eighteenth Century (1): Economies of Feelings (sponsored by the Lessing Society)

Moderator: Dustin Lovett – Depaul University
Commentator: Heidi Schlipphacke – University of Illinois At Chicago

Presenters:

Howard Pollack-Milgate – DePauw University
Novalis and the Romantic Encyclopedia of Emotions

Jan Oliver Jost-Fritz – East Tennessee State University
Affective Spaces and the Transformation of Spirituality in Pyra’s Tempel der wahren Dichtkunst

Fritz Breithaupt – University of Pennsylvania
Unnamed Emotions

Oliver Völker – Johannes Gutenberg Univerversität Mainz
Unforgiveness. Hatred as a Collective Emotion in Gottsched’s Die Parisische Bluthochzeit

Saturday, September 26
8:00-9:50am
Room: Ellis East

Affects and Emotions in the Long Eighteenth Century (2): Embodied Feelings (sponsored by the Lessing Society)

Moderator: Maryann Piel – College of Charleston
Commentator: Karin Schutjer – University of Oklahoma

Presenters:

Nicholas Rennie – Rutgers University New Brunswick
Tears and the Physiology of Memory in Lessing’s Miß Sara Sampson

Ryan Nordle – University of Illinois Chicago
"Ein einziger Blick": Locating the Affective Gaze in Schiller's Don Carlos

Martin Wagner – University of Calgary
Loneliness and Belonging as Emotions

Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni – University of Arizona
Slavery Mediated Through Abolition and ‘White Compassion’: A Critical Black Studies Reading