Seminars

Affect Studies

Year Founded 2015

Seminar # 777

StatusActive

This seminar seeks to bring together scholars in the fields and subfields that have been touched by a growing interest in the emotional or affective experience, whether understood as embodied or incorporeal, emotional or impersonal, quantifiable or escaping measurement. This inter/multidisciplinary seminar on affect will incorporate a wide range of approaches and topics across disciplines and periods. We aim to provide a forum for a discussion of affect in the arts, sciences, history, psychology, philosophy, ecology, queer/feminist studies and social theory, among others, as well as a means to historicize how affect and emotion have served in religious, social, and political contexts in different periods and locales, from Antiquity to contemporary life. We feel that fostering interdisciplinary exchange on the question of affect is vital for understanding the many valences of affect studies’ vocabulary and concerns.

Chair/s

Patricia Dailey

Thomas Dodman

Rapporteur/s

Jianna Rose Walker

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Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

08
Nov

November 8, 20241:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Faculty House

50 Years of the Tyranny of a Construct: A Discussion in Honor of E.A.R. Brown

Speaker/s

David Perry, University of Minnesota

Paul Freedman, Yale University

Ada Kuskowski, University of Pennsylvania

Irit Kleiman, Boston University

Sara McDougall, John Jay

Scheduled

11
Mar

March 11, 2025 -

Faculty House

La vie sociale des choses: L’animisme et les objets

Speaker/s

Monique David-Ménard,

Scheduled

27
Mar

March 27, 20255:00 pm -

Tour Around the Black Paint Curriculum Lab at Columbia University’s Teachers College

Speaker/s

Nancy Lesko ,

Sarah Gerth van den Berg,

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

06
Mar

March 6, 20245:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

Affect, Passion, Emotion: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Speaker/s

Marcus Coelen, ICI Berlin

Scheduled

09
Feb

February 9, 202412:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Faculty House

The Affective Academic

Speaker/s

Donovan Schaefer,

Discussant/s

Tricia Dailey, Columbia University

Respondent/s

Sarah Garth van den Berg, Teachers College

Lauren Mancia, Brooklyn College

Scheduled

21
Sep

September 21, 20236:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Lovebirds: Avian Erotic Entanglements in Medieval French and Occitan Literature

Speaker/s

Eliza Zingesser, Columbia University

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