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Annual Lecture: Emotions in History, Lost and Found, with Professor Ute Frevert

Monday 22nd October, 2012

6pm, Arts 2

In our 2012 annual lecture on “Emotions in History: Lost and Found”, Professor Ute Frevert explained the central arguments of her recent book of the same title about the historicity of the emotions. The lecture explained the idea of a political economy of emotions that has changed in its structure and functions over time, looking in particular detail at the historical trajectories of empathy and compassion as modern moral emotions. The lecture analysed the ways that the limits of empathy were negotiated and renegotiated during the nineteenth century.

Professor Ute Frevert is Director of the Centre for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.

See also: 2012 Annual Lecture Flyer [PDF]

Monday 22nd October 2012 at 6pm followed by a drinks reception.