How do emotions move across time and place?
How do we connect the emotional lives of the past with those of the present?
What is the place of the history of emotions in the future of the humanities?
These are some of the broader questions currently under investigation by researchers in the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800. Individually our focus is on a range of projects about different periods and places, but collectively we are all busy tackling the task of how to research and to ‘write’ the history of emotions.
Updated by the Centre’s postdoctoral fellows and research associates, this blog will collect and archive researchers’ notes, thoughts, and findings – the cutting and the luminary, as well as the sketched and the scribbled – as we go about the day-to-day of our research.
We hope that this blog will last the life of the ARC Centre; maybe even beyond it. As new stories and new narratives are written at ‘Histories of Emotion’, we hope that early career researchers in the Australian humanities especially will find in the practices and methods explored here tidbits to sustain and to nourish ourselves and our field into the future.
Happy researching, and happy blogging.
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