Feeling Exclusion: Emotional Strategies and Burdens of Religious Discrimination and Displacement in Early Modern Europe

Date: 29-31 May 2014
Venue: Graduate House, The University of Melbourne, 220 Leicester St. Carlton
Registration: http://bit.ly/1mx8PPP
Program: http://bit.ly/1j5gYro
Enquiries: jessica.scott@unimelb.edu.au

Discrimination and exclusion have long been strategies used by authorities to maintain authority and control. Fundamental to the success of such strategies, and ultimately also to their removal, is the role of emotion. The aim of this symposium is to explore an important stage in the European history of exclusion between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a time when political and religious upheaval forced an unprecedented number of people to flee their homelands or to live in a state of internal exile. The symposium will focus on the use of emotions in the experience of exile and displacement, the stereotyping of the marginal and excluded, and conflicts over toleration.