Organisation: Timothy Kircher (Guilford College), Gur Zak (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Bernhard Huss (Freie Universität Berlin)

Other participants: Romania Brovia (Università degli Studi di Torino), Igor Candido (Trinity College Dublin), Aileen A. Feng (The University of Arizona), Jennifer Rushworth (University College London) and Hannah C. Wojciehowski (University of Texas at Austin)

The conference will be held on the platform WebEx. Please register via email (bernhard.huss@fu-berlin.de) by Wednesday, March 9.

The workshop concentrates on the function that affective bonds have for Petrarch’s formation of intellectual and social communities. Our aim will an in-depth analysis of the role of the affects in Petrarch’s community-formation and in his humanism. We will explore how Petrarch’s understanding and representation of emotions departed from the tensions between his Stoic mistrust of emotions on the one hand and deeply affective tendencies on the other. Particular attention will be given to a comparative analysis of the role of the affects in Petrarch’s Latin and vernacular works: we will look for the entanglements and overlaps between them, especially as they relate to affective bonds.

Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an: Mitarbeiter/innen der Freien Universität Berlin Studierende Forschende Externe