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Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence HISTORY OF EMOTIONS ANNUAL REPORT 2016 CONTENTS DIRECTOR’S VIEW 4 EDUCATION AND OUTREACH 66 Spotlight: Children’s Voices 71 OVERVIEW 6 About Us 7 INTERNATIONAL VISITORS 72 The Centre at a Glance 8 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS 76 Governance 10 ARTS INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS 78 Meet the Advisory Board 12 Spotlight: Society for the History of Emotions 15 ACADEMIC TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 82 Chief Investigators’ Reflections 17 Spotlight: Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminars 87 Meet the Researchers 22 Meet the Associate Investigators 36 RESEARCH OUTREACH 88 Spotlight: Treasured Possessions 39 Spotlight: Shakespeare 400 93 Meet the Partner Investigators 40 IN THE MEDIA 94 RESEARCH 42 Spotlight: Podcasts 97 Meanings Program 42 EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS 98 Program Report 43 Selected Centre Events 2016 99 Spotlight: Feeling (for) the Premodern 45 Preview of Events in 2017 102 List of Research Projects 46 Spotlight: CHE Postgraduates 103 Selected Publications 104 Change Program 48 Awards and Research Grants 109 Program Report 49 Selected Talks and Presentations 110 Spotlight: Emotions in Legal Practice 51 List of Research Projects 52 PERSONNEL 114 Performance Program 54 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 120 Program Report 55 Spotlight: Voyage to the Moon 57 List of Research Projects 58 Shaping the Modern Program 60 Program Report 61 Spotlight: The Final Zest Festival 63 List of Research Projects 64 Front Cover Image: Noel Counihan, At the Start of the March, 1932, c.1944. © Estate of Noel Counihan. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney. Image: Decorated Text Page, c.1460–1470. Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with parchment. Ms Ludwig XIII 8, fol. 1v. Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program. contribution’ beyond academia to Network (CERN). A common factor Dirk Hartog’s landing on the west society, culture, health and quality in these meetings was a desire to coast. An international collaboration DIRECTOR’S VIEW of life, as many later sections in this understand the influence of the involving Chief Investigator report indicate in more detail. past in the way emotion figures in Jacqueline Van Gent (The University present-day life. Contact with such of Western Australia), the University This year was one of sustained a range of experts and professionals of Lund and the Historical Museum research achievement for CHE, in both stimulates new research in Lund was awarded SEK5,130,000 which we met or exceeded ambitious ideas and keeps our historical work (AUD835,000) by the Swedish key performance indicators and took relevant to current social questions. Royal Academy of Letters, History important new measures to secure and Antiquities for a project titled the continuation of our work into the In 2016 the Centre’s postgraduate ‘Beyond Curiosity and Wonder future. Publications in 2016 exceeded cohort rose to 30 students. Our – Understanding the Museum our newly increased targets from current and completed PhDs are Stobaeanum’ (2017–2019). 2015. Invited international keynote publishing excellent research. addresses, conference papers and Two of the early PhD graduates CHE’s wider audience, both national research visits by CHE members have been awarded postdoctoral and international, continues to be also increased, showing a growing fellowships, one at the Max Planck augmented through website, podcast global awareness of the importance Institute in Berlin and the other at and social media outlets. In 2016 the of our members’ research. We The University of Queensland. Other CHE website attracted 197,845 page conducted major conferences with indicators, including the success of views, the CHE Facebook page has a our international partners, the ‘Early many of our completed postdoctoral total of 2,002 likes, Twitter has 3,316 Modern Conversions’ project (McGill research fellows in securing followers (increasing by at least 100 Andrew Lynch. University) and the Freie Universität academic employment, show that each month), and the CHE Histories Berlin, from which new publications the Centre enjoys a national and of Emotion blog attracted 26,304 are arising. We also co-convened international reputation as an views in 2016 from 16,052 visitors. well-attended symposia with groups excellent training ground for junior Our weekly podcasts, introduced at Birkbeck, University of London, researchers. In addition to their main in March 2016, had 4,577 plays and Columbia University, New York. research projects, the postdoctoral during the year, with the majority of research fellows participate in listeners being outside Australia. From the start, one of history, anthropology, linguistics, CHE’s investigators are university- CHE partnered with the ARC Centre conferences, postgraduate training performance, geography, earth based, but to accomplish their for Cognition and its Disorders I am pleased to conclude this the core aims of the ARC sessions, study days, research studies, literature, education, aims they regularly work with (Macquarie University) and the overview of CHE’s success in 2016 Centre of Excellence for the symposia and public lectures, along psychology, art, sociology, medicine, partners in government, industry, ‘Early Modern Conversions’ team to with exciting news for the future of History of Emotions (CHE) with local staff and students and music, philosophy, law, political the not-for-profit sector and the host a challenging and enlightening emotions history research. During CHE international visitors. They also was to embrace cross- science and economics. general community. In 2016, to conference, ‘Moving Minds: the year the Centre founded the deliver our research outcomes we take part in teaching at postgraduate disciplinary dialogue and Furthermore, as our Postdoctoral Converting Cognition and Emotion international Society for the History worked with groups such as Tourism level, adding greatly to the research encourage collaborative Research Fellow Abaigéal Warfield in History’ in March. Bringing of Emotions (SHE), a group that will Western Australia, Multicultural culture of the university faculties and research practices. reflects in this report, cross- together cognitive scientists, welcome emotions scholars from Arts Victoria (MAV), the New South schools where they are placed. disciplinary dialogue is vital to our philosophers of mind, psychologists, all periods, regions and disciplines. When the Centre began operations Wales Department of Family and project because ‘the history of anthropologists, epistemologists Amongst the many highlights SHE will produce a new refereed in 2011, that idea was seen as a Community Services, the Victorian emotions is something that is not and humanities scholars of all of CHE’s events in 2016 was the journal, Emotions: History, Culture, major change from the traditionally Cooperative on Children’s Services just interdisciplinary in name, but stripes, we asked how cognition and baroque pasticcio opera Voyage to Society (EHCS), edited by Katie individualist culture of Australian for Ethnic Groups (VICSEG), the also in reality’. The vital importance emotion relate to each other, both the Moon, which toured Australia to Barclay (The University of Adelaide) academic humanities scholarship. Illawarra Retirement Trust, Victorian of emotions in daily life informs now and historically. In September, general acclaim and received three and Andrew Lynch (The University Now, as we look back on six years Opera, Pinchgut Opera and the CHE’s commitment to crossing we invited legal practitioners, law Helpmann Award nominations. of Western Australia), and with a of CHE’s life, it is hard to think National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). As another traditional barrier – that academics and legal historians Another was a historically informed distinguished advisory board. The how we could have operated in previous years, CHE made major between academic research and the to a conference on ‘Emotions in modern iteration of Shakespeare’s journal will be published twice otherwise, given the nature of academic, artistic and educational general public – and to translate Legal Practices: Historical and The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed yearly, with the first issue to appear emotions research, in which inputs to the Zest Festival in our findings and integrate public Modern Attitude Compared’. Later by Associate Investigator Rob in mid-2017. Already, SHE has well everyone from neuro-scientists Kalbarri (WA), a highly popular feedback into our projects. World in the year, we joined colleagues Conkie (La Trobe University) and over 100 subscribers worldwide. to art historians stakes a claim. community event that we have events in 2016 have reinforced in sociology, law, politics and performed in Perth and Melbourne. Such a strong reception in a short Work on emotions quickly reveals co-sponsored with organisations to everyone how much emotions cultural studies, amongst other In another industry partnership, CHE space of time is a practical index of and exceeds the limits of single- ranging from the Kingdom of the matter in making history, and how areas, for the ‘1st International collaborated with the WA Maritime the key role the Centre’s research is discipline research. So although Netherlands to the Kalbarri Men’s their origins, nature and operations Conference on Contemporary and Museum, the British Museum and playing within this rapidly growing the Centre refers, in shorthand, Shed. To use the terminology of the need better