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Syllabus for fall 2011 course:
HST 154C/CA 154D
The History of Emotions


HISTORY OF EMOTIONS LINKS:

CHEP - An International Network for the Cultural History of Emotions in Premodernity

Center for the History of Emotions, Queen Mary University of London and their blog

Center for the History of Emotions, MPI for Human Development, Berlin

Center of Excellence in the History of Emotions, Australian Research Council

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William M. Reddy

Chair, Department of History
William T. Laprade Professor of History
and Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Duke University
Box 90719
Durham, North Carolina 27708

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wmr@duke.edu
(919) 684-2343

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Books:

The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE. Forthcoming in 2012 from University of Chicago Press.

The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevolutionary France, 1815-1848. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1997.

Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

All publications

Recent and upcoming conferences:

"Emotions, Health and Wellbeing," London, 10-12 September 2012, sponsored by The British Society for the Social History of Medicine (& held in conjunction with the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health),

Colloque international - L’EMOTION: DE L’ESPACE PRIVE A L’ESPACE PUBLIC XIXe-XXIe SIECLES, Paris, 11-13 avril 2012. Cosponsors: - CHCSC (Université de Versailles-St-Quentin en Yvelines), HAR (Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense) CARISM/Institut Français de Presse (Université Panthéon-Assas) Laboratoire Identités-Cultures-Territoires (Université Paris Diderot-Paris7) CRHEC (Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne).

CHEP 2011 Istanbul "Emotions East and West," İstanbul, September 29- October 1, 2011.

"Learning to Feel: Emotions Beyond Nature versus Nurture,"Jerusalem, April 10-14, 2011; joint conference of The Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, in cooperation with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University.

"Science and the Emotions: Transnational Emotional Cultures in the United States and Western Europe after 1945," San Diego, February 24-26, 2011, IICAS, UC San Diego.