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About the Seminar
A series of seminars will be held from December 2006 to June 2008.
The aims of these seminars are:
- to examine the patterns and flows of affect in different political environments
- to develop an innovative framework for understanding the emotions
- to open up a new space in which to think about the emotions involved in politics, and about the politics of the emotions
Please click on the links below for further information about each seminar:
- Emotion, Antagonism and Deliberation
- Politics and Fear
- The Affective Dimension of Political Mobilization
- Managing the Emotions of Failure in the Public Services
- The Politics of Reparation
- Politics and the Triumph of the Therapeutic
Venues: to be held at University of the West of England (Bristol), Demos (London), Open University (Milton Keynes) and the Tavistock Clinic (London)
Organizers: Simon Thompson (Senior Lecturer, UWE), Paul Hoggett (Professor of Politics, UWE), Jessica Evans (Senior Lecturer, Open University), Catherine Fieschi (Senior Researcher, Demos) and Andrew Cooper (Professor of Social Work, Tavistock Clinic)
Funded by Economic and Social Research Council (with further support from School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, and the Department of Politics, Philosophy and International Relations at UWE, Bristol)
A limited number of small grants will be available to postgraduate students to cover travel costs to these seminars. Please contact ESRCEmotions@uwe.ac.ukfor further informatio
