Project In (E)motion: Emotions as the motor of the ancient world

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Coordination:  Nicole Diersen

The network aims to promote research into the history of emotions in antiquity and to raise awareness of the importance of emotions for ancient studies. Various ways of researching emotions in ancient source material and making them tangible are being developed. An application to case studies will illustrate the added value of the methods.

Goals:

  • To strengthen interdisciplinary and international research perspectives: The network is made up of various disciplines of ancient studies. International partners from Bologna, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Leuven also contribute to the network with their expertise. Further joint projects are planned.
  • Improving methodological access: With a focus on sharpening methods, the network aims to open up new perspectives on ancient source material in order to better understand political and social interactions, actions and practices as well as the cultural embedding of emotions. With the help of narrative, rhetorical, cultural, praxeological and sensory access, emotional phenomena are to be methodically bundled and better reflected and analyzed.
  • Workshops and conferences: Two workshops and a final conference (March 2027) will serve to promote interdisciplinary dialog and the exchange of research results.

Dates

  1. Workshop (theory / method development) with a keynote lecture by  Pia Campeggiani (Bologna): March 26 / 27, 2026
  2. Workshop (case studies): Sept. 24 / 25, 2026
  3. Final conference: March 10 / 11 / 11, 2027

 

Members of the DFG network

Dalida Agri (Cambrige)

Mario Baumann (Dresden)

Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh)

Christopher Degelmann (HU Berlin)

Bernadette Descharmes (Rostock)

Nicole Diersen (Osnabrück)

Anna-Lisa-Fichte (Dresden)

Ide François (Leuven)

Lennart Gilhaus (HU Berlin)

Simon Grund (Tübingen)

Isabelle Künzer (Gießen / Leuven)

Asuman Lätzer-Lasar (Marburg)

Simon Lentzsch (Trier)

Anne-Sopie Meyer (Toronto / Strasbourg)

Marian Nebelin (Chemnitz)

Dennis Pausch (Marburg)

Seraina Ruprecht (Bern)

Florian Sittig (Cologne)

Anna-Dorothea-Uschner (Dresden)

Christin Wagner (Hanover)

 

Associated members

Sophia Häberle (HU Berlin)

Christiane Kunst (Osnabrück)

Victoria Macura (Potsdam)

Meike Rühl (Osnabrück)

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