The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents:
BEFORE EMOTION: CONCEPTIONS OF AFFECTIVITY IN PRE-MODERN CULTURES
Thursday - Friday, November 3-4, 2022
All times are Eastern Standard Time
Zoom webinar
Registration is free and required - links to register are below.
There is a considerable debate today on the nature of emotions, for instance, whether they are innate and universal or socially constructed, and to what extent emotion terms in different languages overlap or coincide. But “emotion” itself is largely taken for granted as a distinct faculty. But is it, or was it, always so? In this conference, we raise this question in relation to six classical languages: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Sanskrit. The results promise to offer new perspectives on emotion that will be of interest to psychologists, neuro-scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and more.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022
12:00 p.m WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Matthew S. Santirocco, NYU
David Konstan, NYU
SESSION 1
Moderator: David Konstan, NYU
12:15 p.m. GREEK
Pia Campeggiani, University of Bologna
1:00 p.m. CHINESE
Curie Virág, Edinburgh University
1:45 p.m. ARABIC
Nancy Khalek, Brown University
REGISTER for Thursday, November 3
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2022
SESSION 2
Moderator: Peter Meineck, NYU
12:00 p.m. LATIN
Ruth Caston, University of Michigan
12:45 p.m. HEBREW
Françoise Mirguet, Arizona State University
1:30 p.m. SANSKRIT
Maria Heim, Amherst College
2:15 p.m. CONCLUSION
Peter Meineck, NYU
REGISTER for Friday, November 4
For more information, contact the NYU Center for Ancient Studies at 212.992.7978 or at ancient.studies@nyu.edu