Annual Report 2014 History of Emotions
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Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence HISTORY OF EMOTIONS ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Contents Overview 2 International Visitors 60 The Centre at a Glance 3 Spotlight: International Partner Investigator: Piroska Nagy 61 Governance 4 Professor Andrew Lynch 5 Arts Industries Partnerships 62 PHILIPPA MADDERN 24 AUGUST 1952–16 JUNE 2014 Director’s Review 6 Spotlight: Emotion, Ritual and (CHE Director 2011–2014) Power Collaboratory 65 Meet the Advisory Board 8 Meet the Chief Investigators 10 Academic Training and Development 66 “…CHE’s true Christmas gift to us all – Meet the Researchers 12 Selected Training and Development 66 the gift of new knowledge and new insights, Spotlight: Methods Collaboratory and Spotlight: Honours and Postgraduate the present of mind-stretching new Biennial Research Meeting 16 Students Workshop 69 approaches to our past, the opportunity Meet the Partner Investigators 17 Research Outreach 70 to understand better our range of Associate Investigators 18 Spotlight: Affective Habitus Collaboratory 75 emotional heritages. It’s the best kind Spotlight: Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions Between Media Highlights 76 of gift – unbreakable, non-fattening, Europe, Asia and the Americas 21 Spotlight: The Voice and Histories of long-lasting, enriching. I wish you Organisational Structure 22 Emotion: 1500-1800 Collaboratory 79 all many such gifts.” Project Timelines 24 Events and Publications 80 Centre for the History of Emotions Newsletter Selected Centre Events 80 Meanings Program December 22, 2011 Selected Publications 82 Program Report 34 Spotlight: Empathy, Ethics, Aesthetics: List of Research Projects 36 Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar 86 Spotlight: Languages of Emotion Collaboratory 38 Selected Awards and Research Grants 87 Change Program Selected Talks and Presentations 88 Program Report 40 Key Performance Indicators 92 © Matt Galligan List of Research Projects 42 Personnel 100 Performance Program Program Report 44 List of Research Projects 46 Spotlight: Kristin Linklater: The Voice, Emotion and Shakespeare 49 Shaping the Modern Program Program Report 50 List of Research Projects 52 Spotlight: Try Walking in my Shoes 54 Education and Outreach 56 Front Cover: Gerrit van Honthorst, Musical Group on the Balcony, 1622. © J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. 2 ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS ANNUAL REPORT 2014 3 OVERVIEW The Centre at a Glance Established in 2011, The ARC Centre of Excellence for The Centre works to the History of Emotions (CHE) has its headquarters at 1. Create and foster links between a team of The University of Western Australia, with nodes across pre-eminent Australian humanities researchers, the country at the Universities of Adelaide, Melbourne, a network of international experts and institutions, Queensland, and Sydney. The Centre has developed an and a set of industry partners (performing arts extensive range of collaborative links to international institutions, art galleries, media). institutions in Continental Europe, the UK, and North America, and has established partnerships with such 2. Develop innovative procedures and work spaces arts industries and community groups as the National for inter-relating different research methods Gallery of Victoria, the Australian Broadcasting (e.g. cultural historiography, literary analysis, Corporation, Musica Viva, the Zest Festival, The Dax visual arts interpretations, and performance Centre, West Australian Opera, and Victorian Opera. practice research), and to maximise fruitful Besides the research projects of its Chief Investigators, synergies between different disciplines and CHE hosts numerous Postdoctoral Fellows and methodologies. postgraduate students across its four research Programs, and welcomes many international visitors Our locations as collaborators each year through the Distinguished Our Centre is a national entity with a host site at International Visitor and Early Career Researcher The University of Western Australia, and nodes at Visitor schemes. The Centre also maintains a the Universities of Adelaide, Queensland, Melbourne, nation-wide program of performance, community and Sydney. outreach, and education events. Emotions shape our individual, community, Worldwide and national identities, and an overarching aim of the Queen Mary College, University of London (UK), Centre is to use historical knowledge to improve our contextual understanding of the emotional behaviour and Université de Fribourg (Switzerland), health of modern Australians. We recover the history of Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), emotions from Europe 1100-1800, and share it with the wider Australian public to enrich our personal lives, University of Newcastle (UK), revitalize our culture, and empower us to make good University of Umeå (Sweden). © Photo courtesy of VisitScotland/ScottishViewpoint political and social decisions for our future. Australians today show strong emotional attachment to their land, cultural heritage, and history. Our long-term European heritage remains one of our strongest cultural About Us influences, shaping the world we live in today. Umeå Vision Aims Provide leadership in humanities research worldwide • To understand long-term changes in emotional into how societies experienced, expressed, and concepts, expressions, and regulation in Europe, Berlin understood emotions in Europe 1100-1800, and 1100-1800. how this long history continues to impact on • To investigate mass emotions and their social, present-day Australia. Newcastle political, and economic influences. • To analyse and demonstrate how emotions were Fundamental research questions performed in music, art, and drama. How do understandings, expression, and performance • To show how this history underpins modern of individual and mass emotions change over time? Australian emotional culture and heritage. How do we best understand the roles of nature and • To invigorate contemporary Australian performance culture in the formation of emotions, both individual practices through collaborative research findings. London and communal? Brisbane • To understand and communicate modern audience How do emotional understandings, expression, reactions to these performances. and performance affect political, social, and cultural developments (even up to present-day Australia)? • To raise public awareness of the role and importance of emotions in Australia’s social and cultural Perth (Host) Sydney well-being. Adelaide Fribourg • To work towards establishing emotions as a Melbourne widely-used framework for understanding past societies and cultures. 4 ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS ANNUAL REPORT 2014 5 Professor Andrew Lynch are submitted to, and signed off by, Program Leaders, and form a basis for the development of Program Strategic Plans. All CIs, Postdoctoral Research Fellows, and Associate Investigators report biannually on the outcomes of their projects. Supervision of the Postdoctoral Research Fellows is undertaken locally Professor Andrew Lynch (UWA) was appointed as the Centre’s new by their relevant CIs; the Director takes national Director, in succession to his former colleague, the late Professor Philippa responsibility for their mentoring. Postgraduates are Maddern. Andrew has been involved in the planning and work of the Centre mentored by their local supervisors. CI Stephanie Trigg since its earliest days. In 2014 he became a Chief Investigator and Deputy (Melbourne) has national oversight of their welfare. Director in the Centre, and, after Professor Maddern’s death on 16 June, its Acting Director. His appointment as Director, which follows an extended Partner Investigators international search by The University of Western Australia (UWA), is a strong endorsement of the style of leadership he has displayed over recent The Centre has Partner Investigators (PIs) at five years and throughout the last few difficult months. Coming as it does in European universities: Queen Mary University of London, the wake of a highly commendatory mid-term report by the Australian UK; Newcastle University, UK; Freie Universität Berlin, Research Council on the Centre’s initial achievements under Philippa Germany; Université de Fribourg, Switzerland; and Umeå Maddern’s inspirational directorship, the appointment ensures continuing Universitet, Sweden. Partnerships with the University of stability within the Centre, and eases the way for further imaginative Western Ontario and Université du Québec à Montréal, growth and development of its programmes under its new Director up to, Governance Canada; Durham University and the University of and beyond, its current funding cycle which is due to end in 2017. Southampton, UK, are in the process of ratification. A graduate of Melbourne and Oxford Universities, Andrew Lynch was As can be seen from the Organisational Structure, appointed to a Lectureship in English at UWA in 1980. He has served as it is the particular responsibility of the Director to Chair of the Discipline of English, Chair also of the University’s programme The Centre’s administering organisation maintain and develop these research connections. is The University of Western Australia of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), Associate Dean (Research) in Arts, and is a Professor in English and Cultural Studies. Out of MEMS (UWA). The Chief Investigators (CIs) are Arts Industries Partnerships and School emerged in 2008 UWA’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies – located at UWA, and at four other nodes: and Community Outreach: housing