Venue : CEIAS 190-198 avenue de France 75013 Paris, Room 640

A history of emotions in India: What does it mean & how we can write it?

Margrit Pernau (Centre for the History of Emotions/Max Planck Institute, Berlin)

Discussant: Amélie Blom (Sciences Po.)

This talk looks into the bases on which we can build a history of emotions. For the South Asian side this would mean (a) to review what work has already been done, both in history and in anthropology, which directly touches on emotions, passions and sensibilities, and (b) to show which fields could profit by explicitly including emotions as a category. For the Western side, where history of emotions is much more established, it would review some of the recent approaches and reflect on how they would need to be modified in order to make sense forresearch on South Asia