Conference program

Session 1: 14 August

Affect Theory in Emotions Studies

2.45 – 5.30pm
Room 460.4.28, Level 4, 250 Victoria Parade

Time	Session
2.45pm	Arrival and Coffee
3.00pm – 4.30pm	Panel Discussion: Affect Theory in Emotions Studies Panellists Donovan Schaefer is Assistant Professor of Material Religion and Visual Culture at the University of Pennsylvania. Stephanie Trigg is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. Michael Champion is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University.
4.30pm - 5.30pm	Reception and Welcome

Time

Session

2.45pm

Arrival and Coffee

3.00pm – 4.30pm

Panel Discussion: Affect Theory in Emotions Studies

Panellists

Donovan Schaefer is Assistant Professor of Material Religion and Visual Culture at the University of Pennsylvania.
Stephanie Trigg is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Melbourne.
Michael Champion is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University.

4.30pm - 5.30pm

Reception and Welcome

Public Lecture - Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania

6.00pm – 7.30pm
Philippa Brazill Lecture Theatre, Daniel Mannix building
9 – 18 Brunswick St Fitzroy

See public lecture page for further details

Time	Session
6.00pm –7.30pm	Public lecture ‘From Creationism to Climate Change Denial: An Affective Approach to Science Scepticism’ Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania

Time

Session

6.00pm –7.30pm

Public lecture

‘From Creationism to Climate Change Denial: An Affective Approach to Science Scepticism’

Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania

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Session 2: 15 August

Affect, Pain, and Medicine in Pre-Modernity

Respondent: Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania

9.30am - 1.00pm
Room 460.4.28, Level 4, 250 Victoria Parade

Time	Session
9:00am	Arrival and Coffee
9:30am	Jacqueline Clarke - University of Adelaide ( by Skype) ‘Presence and Absence of Pain in Prudentius’ Peristephanon’
10:05am	Jonathan Zecher – Australian Catholic University: ‘Organizing Emotions from the Stoics to the Suda’
10:40am	Coffee Break
11:00am	Kylie Crabbe – Australian Catholic University ‘Peter’s call to mourning: Using affect theory to grapple with Peter’s daughter’s paralysis in the Acts of Peter’
11:35am	Christopher Ocker – Australian Catholic University ‘Notes on Sickness, Death, and Loss in the Middle Ages’
12:10pm	Lisa Beavan – La Trobe University
12:45pm –2:00pm	Lunch

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Session 3: 15 August

Affect, Politics, and Knowledge

2.00pm to 5.00pm
Room 460.4.28, Level 4, 250 Victoria Parade

Short papers followed by general discussion

Time	Session
2:00pm	Ben Moffitt – Australian Catholic University ‘Populism versus Technocracy: Performance, Passions, and Aesthetics’
2:40pm	Jeanette Kennett – Macquarie University ‘Reasoning about punishment and responsibility in the wild and in the courtroom’
3.20pm	Coffee Break
3.40pm	Mark Alfano – Australian Catholic University: ‘A conceptual replication of the motivated numeracy effect on cultural cognition’.
4.20pm	Donovan Schaefer – University of Pennsylvania ‘The Lust to Believe: Affect, Conspiracy Theory, and Race’.
5:00pm	Close

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Program

Session 1: 14 August

Affect Theory in Emotions Studies

Arrival and Coffee

Panel Discussion: Affect Theory in Emotions Studies

Reception and Welcome

Public Lecture - Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania

Public lecture

Session 2: 15 August

Affect, Pain, and Medicine in Pre-Modernity

Respondent: Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania

Arrival and Coffee

Coffee Break

Lunch

Session 3: 15 August

Affect, Politics, and Knowledge

Coffee Break

Close

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