News Reporting and Emotions, 1100–2017: Change Program Collaboratory 2017
The National Wine Centre, Adelaide
4‒6 September 2017 (beginning with a public lecture on the evening of 4 Sept)

Convenors: David Lemmings, Amy Milka, Abaigéal Warfield

More info: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/news-reporting-and-emotions-1100-2017-change-program-collaboratory-2017

In the last year, a number of television reporters made headlines after becoming emotional during live reports. BBC news anchor Kate Silverton was reduced to tears while reporting on the aftermath of airstrikes in war-torn Syria. Following her emotional outburst, Ms Silverton took to Twitter to say that her job was to be inscrutable and impartial, “but I am also human”. The story about this crying anchor made it into several newspapers, with a number of readers commenting online about whether or not they felt her behaviour was acceptable.

Much like historians and judges, received wisdom expects journalists to be objective and impartial or, simply put, not emotional. This is not always the case, and perhaps it never has been. Increasingly, journalists acknowledge the emotional and ethical difficulties of their work, and the ways that emotions can be harnessed in reporting. This begs the question: How has the relationship between news and emotion ebbed and flowed across time and space? Why has it changed? And where will it go in the future?

At the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, scholars from a range of disciplines come together to ask how emotions shape history and inspire change. As individual, community and national identities shift and evolve, so too do forms of emotional expression. News reporting both instigates and reflects changing emotional landscapes. New technologies and improved lines of communication have affected the way news is produced, disseminated and consumed. Reporting styles have been influenced by different genres of popular literature, fluctuating fashions and consumers’ tastes. The emotional agendas of news outlets have been influenced by sponsorship, institutional affiliation, social, political or religious motives and, of course, sales. As we move into what has been labelled a ‘post-factual’ age, or what some have termed ‘post-truth politics’, where political campaigns are forged on emotional grounds, these issues are particularly pressing. Claims of objectivity and reliability can often be found side by side with subjective commentary, satire or polemic; in the news, emotions were (and are) everywhere.

We are delighted to announce four distinguished keynote speakers from a variety of disciplines:

• Professor Charlie Beckett (Director, POLIS; Media and Communications, London School of Economics)
• Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University)
• Dr Cait McMahon (Director, Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma Asia Pacific, Melbourne)
• Dr Una McIlvenna (History, The University of Melbourne)

This collaboratory seeks to anatomise the relationship between news and emotion from the medieval period to the present day. We welcome abstracts from practising journalists and contributions from the fields of sociology, history, literary studies, media studies, psychology, philosophy and elsewhere.

Individual paper proposals (20mins) and proposals for panels or sessions with alternative formats are welcome.

Potential topics include:

• Journalists ‘managing’ their emotions, past and present
• How different mediums and genres limited or enabled the emotional element of news, e.g.
• Handwritten avvisi, printed non-periodical reports, periodical reports, daily newspapers, broadcast news on radio and television
• History of emotions in news
• How news media helps to contribute to emotional norms
• Emotions between the lines, on blending fact and emotion, rituals of emotionality
• Training journalists, ethics, emotions and impartiality
• Democracy, free press and emotion
• Audience responses to news, and their role in creating and selecting content; the interactive nature of news.

Abstracts of 300 words and brief bios to be sent to amy.milka@adelaide.edu.au by 30, April 2017.

‘News Reporting and Emotions: 1100‒2017’ is the 2017 Collaboratory of the Change Program of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100‒1800.

Early Modern Discourses on Europe: Representations of Community and Common Identity (1450-1750)
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck
November 30-December 2, 2017

Organised by: Nicolas Detering (Freiburg i. Br.), Clementina Marsico (Innsbruck), Isabella Walser (Innsbruck)

Early Modern Discourses on Europe

Starting in the post-war decades of the 20th century, the history, the concept, and the identity of Europe as a geographical, cultural, political, religious and ideological entity has become a popular field of investigation in many different disciplines. Historians, political scientists, and philologists have come to examine the meaning of Europe in the face of contemporary developments and problems, which the European integration is facing. Their research shows that while ancient and medieval writers may have already ‘sensed’ some sort of European identity, a proper discourse on the continent’s political significance, cultural meaning, historical fate and contemporary crisis – based, for example, on the use of a shared vocabulary (the term ‘Europe’ among it) and of specific rhetorical strategies (like the personification of Europe) –, only evolved during the 15th and 16th century and proliferated in the 17th and 18th century.

But even though the existing studies have shed some light on the concept of Europe in the works of ‘great thinkers’ like Piccolomini, Richelieu, or Leibniz, its wide distribution across languages and genres, as well as its influence on the actual shaping of Europe in political, cultural and other related aspects have only recently received more attention. This holds especially true for texts written in Neo-Latin, as is shown by the project entitled Europe and European Identity in Neo-Latin Literature conducted at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin studies in Innsbruck, the organiser of this conference. This project attempts for the first time to take into consideration the vast amount of Neo-Latin literature processing the discourse on Europe and European identity, for most of what we know so far about the early modern process of the formation of Europe relies almost exclusively on vernacular sources. The dispersion of discourses on Europe across the continent – be it in Latin or in the vernaculars –, however, is difficult to grasp, since they are not restricted to one specific genre. In fact, the discourses span a variety of text types, such as political treatises, poems, novels, commentaries, periodic journals, grammar books, private letters etc. The early modern discourses of Europe rely on an immense communicative network, the contours of which are challenging to decipher.

Conference Aim and Research Questions

To this end, the conference will dive into the early modern days of the notion of Europe. Assuming that discourses on Europe tend to transcend linguistic, historic, and generic boundaries, we invite participants from different fields to examine vernacular and Latin negotiations of Europe from the late 15th to the early 18th century. This multi-angled approach will serve to identify both similarities and differences in the constructions of Europe within its different national and cultural communities. Comparing the results from Neo-Latin studies with the findings of other disciplines, the conference’s main purpose is to investigate the discursive representations of Europe from a contrastive and interdisciplinary pan-European perspective: papers should concern questions of how the term Europe was defined and evaluated, which concepts were attached to Europe, and in which way texts were trying to create or propagate a common European identity in the various languages, disciplines and genres of Early Modernity.

Accordingly, papers regarding the following topics are particularly (but not exclusively) welcome:

• ideas, definitions, interpretations as well as discourses on Europe in texts and media of any given genre (e.g. the geographical concept; the religious idea of Christianitas; the intellectual notion of the res publica litteraria; the cultural image of Europe as the heir of values derived from the ancient past; the political concept of a ‘balance of power’);
• the ‘rhetorics’ of Europe, i.e. in which way discourses on Europe are performed and promoted, which metaphors and narratives are employed to describe Europe or to convey the interactions between Europe and its parts (e.g. eroticism of lovers and rivals in allegories);
• the interplay between language and identity, i.e. the role language plays ideologically and politically in shaping identity in connection with the notion of Europe (e.g. Latinitas against the vernaculars);
• relationships between nations and Europe, i.e. the way texts sharpen national identities with regard to the supra-national (e.g. Europe as a plurality of nations following the principle of unity in diversity).

Practicalities

We welcome papers of a maximum of 30 minutes length. Each paper will be followed by c.10 minutes of discussion. English will serve as the main conference language. The publication of the papers in a collective conference volume is planned for 2018, the deadline for article submission will be April 30, 2018. To submit a proposal, please send an abstract of your paper (max. 150 words) and a brief curriculum vitae (max. half a page) to isabella.walser@neolatin.lbg.ac.at or clementina.marsico@neolatin.lbg.ac.at before April 30, 2017.

The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies will reimburse the travel expenses and compensate for the conference hotel in Innsbruck, max. three nights (arrival Wednesday, November 29, departure Saturday, December 2, 2017).

Further information about the conference can be found at http://neolatin.lbg.ac.at.

DCDC17: Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC)
The Lowry, Salford Quays
27-29 November, 2017

Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) is the conference of collaboration between the archive, library, museum and academic sectors. Now in its fifth year, DCDC provides a platform for colleagues to come together in joint conversation, looking beyond their own specialisms to forge new partnerships and enhance the social, cultural and economic impact of our unique collections.

The cultural value of collections and the creative economy

In today’s uncertain political and economic climate the ability to demonstrate why heritage and culture matter – and to whom – has never been more important or relevant. The ways in which
we gather, measure and present evidence of cultural value and impact has attracted increasing attention in recent years, as emphasis has led to a stronger focus on the experience of
individuals and of communities.

Archives, libraries, museums and heritage organisations across the UK and further afield have played a leading role in this movement. They have actively looked to examine, capture and
measure the wider social, cultural and economic impact of their collections, and to engage more effectively with a wider variety of audiences. Work in this area continues to evolve, as
does the need for new and better ways of evidencing value and impact through continuing research and the effective sharing of experiences within and between sectors.

DCDC17 will consider how, by working collaboratively through networks of inter and crossdisciplinary initiatives, we can continue to improve and develop methodologies in order to
build a strong evidence base to demonstrate the cultural value of collections and their contribution to the creative economy.

We welcome proposals on collaborative projects involving library, archive, museum, heritage and cultural sectors in partnership with communities, scholars, education and funders. For 2017, we would particularly be interested on submissions within the following themes:

• Heritage and the human experience: hidden voices, social cohesion, diversity and
  public wellbeing.
• The cultural landscape: heritage buildings, regeneration, and engaging audiences
  with real and imagined environments.
• Curative collections: understanding and reflecting voices in conflict, dissent,
  displacement, repatriation and recovery.
• New value in old things: opening up collections through original research, heritage
  science, the internet, and digital technology.
• Collections and enterprise: the challenges and opportunities of utilising collections
  for revenue generation, managing the relationship between culture and the
  corporate, and overcoming the hurdles of copyright.
• Innovative interpretations: presenting traditional collections to new audiences
  through art, design, and performance.
• Measuring value: holistic value frameworks, benchmarking, cultural and academic
  partnerships, impact, and the REF.
• The politics of collections: advocacy for collections, funding, institutional and
  community support and investment.

Papers

The conference organisers invite abstracts for the delivery of 20-minute presentations. 10
minutes will be allowed for questions after each presentation.

Panels

The conference organisers also invite the submission of abstracts for panel proposals. Panels
should include three 20-minute papers and include a named panel chair. They can be
submitted on any pertinent topic within the conference theme and can include papers relating
to an individual project, emerging initiative, or ‘state of the nation’ overview.
Workshops & roundtables

As part of DCDC17 the organisers also welcome proposals for:

• Practical workshops on (but not limited to):
  • funding and sustainability
  • interactive projects
  • education & outreach
• Roundtable sessions by professional networks & societies

All workshops should involve a high level of interactivity and/or training which should be clearly
demonstrated in the abstract.

Roundtable sessions should include no more than five speakers speaking for five minutes
each. We encourage professional networks and societies to lead on these sessions discussing
issues relevant to the conference theme.

Both workshops and roundtables should be open to all conference delegates and require no
prior knowledge or preparation.

Submission format

1. All submissions should be presented in the following format as a word document:
2. Name, job title and organisation of speaker/s
3. Presentation/panel/seminar title
4. A summary of no more than 100 words (this will be printed in the conference
   programme)
5. A more detailed abstract of no more than 300 words
6. Any scheduling conflicts for speakers

Deadline

All abstracts should be submitted to both Melanie Cheung (melanie.cheung@rluk.ac.uk) and
Laura Tompkins (Laura.Tompkins@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk) by Sunday 30 April.
Any submissions received after the deadline will not be considered.

About the conference

The DCDC conference series is run in partnership between The National Archives and
Research Libraries UK.

Bodies in Motion in the Early Modern World
Centre for Early Modern Studies: First biennial graduate conference
King’s College London – Strand Campus
16 June, 2017

Keynote Speaker: Dr Morwenna Carr, University of Roehampton

King’s College London’s Centre for Early Modern Studies is pleased to announce its first biennial postgraduate conference. ‘Bodies in Motion in the Early Modern World’ aims to explore both the politics of physical and spatial movement and its consequences on the geographical and cultural boundaries of the known world between 1500 and 1800. We are inviting proposals for 20-minute papers and posters from graduate students and early career researchers working on early modern European cultures, literature, history, art history, music, and geography. As well as traditional 20-minute papers, we will select from the submissions 4 papers to participate in a end-of-day roundtable. We are particularly interested in papers reflecting on the role that our research has in illuminating our understanding of events of international political relevance, and on our responsibility to discuss these events from the point of view of experts in the humanities. Possible topics include (but are not limited too):

• Migrations and Identity
• Urban Space and Topography
• Ability and Disability
• Fictional Genres
• Gender and Sexuality
• Society, Work, and Labour
• Space in Performance, Performance in Space

Paper proposals of up to 200 words, accompanied by a short biography, should be submitted to cemsconference@gmail.com by 31 March, 2017. For any queries, please use the same address. A limited number of travel bursaries will be made available. More details to follow!

Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Nottingham Trent University
11-13 July 2017

This conference is the inaugural event for the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods at NTU. The centre aims to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. Conflicts with religious elements incorporate not just military engagements but also social, political, cultural and economic events, forming a common strand between Medieval and Early Modern worlds. The conference will both launch the centre and highlight new subjects and strategies for its future development.

Current members have expertise in the Crusades and the Military Orders; Reformations and Confessional societies; the Conquest of the New World and Seventeenth Century Britain, but we are keen to establish networking links with scholars and students who investigate the role of religion and conflicts with different faiths, confessions and heterodox groups, so that comparisons may contribute towards the development of new definitions and paradigms for understanding the roles played by belief in national, communal and inter-personal conflict.

The conference will incorporate a broad chronological spectrum from medieval to early modern with a view to developing current research, sharing techniques, investigating new approaches and enhancing study in the wider field. It will consist of keynote and public lectures, and academic papers presented in a workshop format. Postgraduate and early career applicants are particularly welcome.

Prospective speakers are invited to submit 200 word abstracts which broadly relate to the following themes from any period in the medieval to early modern range, and comparative approaches are particularly welcomed:

• Religious discourse and dissent
• Religion and warfare/military conflict
• Conflict relating to religious property or objects
• Gender and religious conflict
• Confessional conflict
• Conversion and conflict
• Religion and family conflicts: marital violence, divorce, separation, property disputes
• Religion and conflict in social environments, communities and networks
• Religious sources in conflict

There will be an opportunity to publish conference proceedings in a special volume for the Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History Series for Routledge.

Abstracts should be sent to: Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk by Friday 7 April, 2017.