Conference: Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe: 1200 to the Present Date: 11-12 February 2014 Venue: The University of Adelaide, Australia Deadline for abstarcts: 31 August 2013 Papers are now sought that address this theme within a European context, or explore European emotions in a global context, between 1200 and the present day. Within the bigger conference theme, papers may wish to explore, but are not limited to: • the relationship between rituals and routines and where these cross over; • where rituals happen – the household, the street, sacred spaces, institutions – and its implications; • the emotional resonances of objects and texts (including visual culture and architecture) in rituals; • types of rituals – rites of passage, religious ceremonies, state-sponsored spectacles – and their emotional contexts; • individual emotions v. collective emotions, and participant v. audience emotions; • rituals that inform different types of power, including personal, familial, community, institutional and national; • the interplay of facets of identity, such as gender, class and ethnicity in ritual; • the dynamics and performance of ritual and how it is informed by emotion or in turn creates emotion; • rituals and change over time v. rituals as static/traditional; • and boredom as emotion in ritual contexts. Abstracts of no more than 500 words, and a short bio, should be emailed to both Merridee Bailey, ([email protected],) and Katie Barclay, ([email protected]).
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