This colloquium is a collaboration between researchers from the Université de Lille and Ghent University. Together they investigate (early) modern conceptions of emotions, the representation of passions and the relationship between these representation and (early) modern cultures of emotions. Registration before Monday March 9th (not necessary for speakers and chairs):
Session 1: Chair / président: Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian (Université de Lille) 9:30 – Frédéric Briot (Université de Lille): Passion et complexe du tout dans Sémélé, tragédie lyrique de Marin Marais (1709) 10:00 – Delphine Calle (UGent): Racine ou la dramaturgie de l’amour 10:30 – Questions & discussion 11:00 – Break / Pause
Session 2: Chair / président: Cornelis van der Haven (UGent) 11:30 – Tom Laureys (UGent): Rational revenge? The navigation of the passions in a Dutch Medea tragedy (1667)
12:00 – Timothy Vergeer (Universiteit Leiden): ‘Vengeance is mine’. Revenge, Honour, and Spanish Drama in the Low Countries (1617-1672) 12:30 – Questions & discussion 13:00 – Lunch / déjeuner
Session 3: Chair / président: Alison Boulanger (Université de Lille) 14:00 – Emilie Picherot (Université de Lille): La passion arabicante de Nicolas Clénard de Louvain à Fez (1495-1542) 14:30 – Steven Vanden Broecke (UGent): Astrological management of the passions and Catholic spirituality in 17th-century France: Jean-Baptiste Morin’s Astrologia Gallica (1661) 15:00 – Questions & discussion 15:30 – Break / pause
Session 4: Chair / président: Jürgen Pieters (UGent) 16:00 – Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian (Université de Lille): Consolate, disconsolate: of harrowing experiences in 19th Century Novels 16:30 – Caroline Grapa (Université de Lille): L‘Essai sur Sénèque: éthique et politique du sujet 16:30 – Questions & discussion 17:00 – Discussion about future cooperation / projects 17:30 Closure / fin
Date : 13 mars 2020, 9h-17h
Lieu : Ghent University, meeting room « Simon Stevin » , Rozier-Plateau building (entrance Plateaustraat 22, Gent – left corridor).