Feeling Cultures / Culturing Feelings:
Emotions and Affects in Cultural Practices
9-11 April 2025
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
Hybrid On-site / Online Conference
Our conference aims to be interdisciplinary, combining approaches rooted in cultural and literary studies, game and media studies, psychology, sociology and others, which will allow for a broad and vivid debate across different panels. We are interested in discussing recent developments in affect studies and their impact on other areas of research, including the study of literature, art, drama, popular culture, games, journalism, and music. We wish to explore the connections between affect studies and ethics, trauma and memory studies, ecocriticism, postcolonial and race studies, posthumanism, game studies, and gender research. By making affect studies our point of departure, we want to examine how the shift in focus may (productively) transform our ways of thinking about representation, the politics of cultural texts, embodiment, rationality, materiality, exploitation, the global and the local, and the more-than-human world.
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Nicole Falkenhayner 