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Shifting the Boundaries of Feeling: New Directions in Theories of History, Power, and Sentiment

Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8, 2003

Keynote Address: “The Coiled Force of Violence in Memory, History and Identity”

E. Valentine Daniel (Columbia University Anthropology)

Saturday, Michigan Union 11:00-2:00

Why is sentiment important?

Where is it located?

How are sentiments distributed and how can they be historicized?

How can scholars access sentiment in their various modes of investigation?

Join us in an interdisciplinary debate and discussion to investigate the ways in which a close examination of emotion might open possibilities for intellectual, spiritual, and political engagement. Explore issues around social inequality and the distribution of sentiment, state formation and affect, racial politics and imperial sympathies, the historicization of sentiment, Raymond Williams’ “structures of feeling,” methodologies, and sentiment as a marker of political and social location. Interrogate the various disciplinary approaches to theorizing sentiment and the ways in which disciplines are transformed by such study.

What are the tools available for mapping the shifts and changes in sentiment across time? How can scholars maintain a sensitivity to the simultaneity of both social and individual influences and characteristics in their considerations of sentiment? What are the responsibilities of the researcher concerning attention to and acknowledgement of emotions felt, expressed, and remembered?

More details to follow.

Please contact one of the graduate student conference organizers if you have any questions:
Bridget Guarasci, Anthropology (bguarasc@umich.edu)

Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Anthropology (edubuiss@umich.edu)

Monica Patterson, Anthropology and History (mepatter@umich.edu)

This conference is made possible by funding from the Departments of Anthropology, English, History, and Philosophy; Rackham Graduate School; LSA Dean's Office; Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life; Center for the Study of Social Transformations; and the Humanities Institute

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