The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents:
BEFORE EMOTION II: FURTHER CONVERSATIONS ON AFFECTIVITY IN PRE-MODERN CULTURES
Thursday - Friday, November 9-10, 2023
All times are Eastern Standard Time
Zoom webinar
Registration is free and required - click here for registration information
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. “Emotion” itself, however, is largely taken for granted as a distinct faculty. But is it, or was it, always so? In this second conference on “Before Emotion,” we raise this question in relation to six classical languages: Hittite, Egyptian, Mayan, Japanese, Sumerian and Akkadian. The results promise to offer further perspectives on emotion that will be of interest to psychologists, neuro-scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and more.
For more information and the full schedule, please visit the Center for Ancient Studies website.
