Selected Presentations & Appearances
"Parler à la cour au XIIe siècle: Silences, ironies, vérité"
- Session d'été
· June 18, 2015
Invited Talk
Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiéval, Université de Poitiers,
Poitiers, France
"From Zeal to Sweetness: The Emotional History of the Intellect in the Seventeenth Century"
· March 25, 2015
Invited Talk
English Department, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
"The History of Love"
- What Is Love? Romance Fiction in the Digital Age
· February 10, 2015
- February 11, 2015
Invited Talk
Conference co-sponsored by the Popular Romance Project and the Center for the Book, Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
"The Paradox of Modernity"
· September 17, 2014
Invited Talk
Department of History, University at Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY
Plenary Session, "What is modernity? Recent debates and their implications for the seventeenth century"
- Annual Meeting
· July 11, 2014
Invited Talk
Society for the Study of French History,
Durham, U.K.
Keynote Lecture: "Is Pleasure an Emotion? Historicism and Anachronism in the History of Emotions,"
· July 5, 2013
Lecture
International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds
Reason and Emotion: Their Mutual Transformation in the Seventeenth Century,
· May 23, 2013
Lecture
Colloque International Ve Rencontre EMMA: Histoire intellectuelle des émotions de l'Antiquité à nos jours
The Self as a Domain of Effort: The Convergence of Ethnographic, Historical, and Neuroscience Evidence
· March 15, 2013
Lecture
ARC Center for the History of Emotions, Methods Collaboratory, University of Melbourne
Do Emotions Have a History? The Example of Romantic Love
· March 14, 2013
Lecture
ARC Center for the History of Emotions, University of Melbourne
Cacher ses émotions: Ancien régime, Révolution, 19e siècle,
· January 16, 2013
Lecture
Séminaire ERCOMES-CIM 2012-2013, Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris-3
Plenary address for conference entitled "Emotions, Health and Wellbeing," London, 10-12 September 2012, sponsored by The British Society for the Social History of Medicine
· September 10, 2012
Lecture
Keynote addresss for Colloque international - "L’EMOTION: DE L’ESPACE PRIVE A L’ESPACE PUBLIC XIXe-XXIe SIECLES," Paris
· April 1, 2012
Lecture
Beyond 'Emotions' Keynote Address for CHEP II 2011 Istanbul "Emotions East and West," İstanbul, September 29- October 1, 2011.
· September 2, 2011
Lecture
Keynote Address: Are Emotions Like Language? for Conference entitled "Learning to Feel: Emotions Beyond Nature versus Nurture,"Jerusalem, April 10-14, 2011
· April 1, 2011
Lecture
Comment
· June 26, 2009
Lecture
for a conference entitled "Doing Emotions: Past, Present and Future" at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Comment for a panel at a conference entitled, “Doing Emotions: Past, Present, and Future,” at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development,
· June 24, 2009
Lecture
Berlin
“The Question of Romantic Love in Early Modern Historical Research,” paper for a conference entitled “Amor Docet Musicam, Musica Docet Amorem: Liebe und Musik in der Frühen Neuzeit,” University of Osnabrück
· March 27, 2009
Lecture
Osnabrück, Germany
The Question of Romantic Love in Early Modern Historical Research
· March 26, 2009
Lecture
paper for a Conference entitled "Amor Docet Musicam: Liebe und Musik in der frühe Neuzeit," University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
“The Return of Romantic Love,”
· November 19, 2008
Lecture
panel entitled “Affective Governmentality: Cultivating and Adjudicating Responsibility in the Configuration of the Self,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco
“Saying Something New: Practice Theory and Cognitive Neuroscience,”
· November 14, 2008
Lecture
Meertens Institute on the two-hundredth anniversary of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Emotions and Sentimentalism in the Eighteenth Century,”
· September 13, 2008
Lecture
Colloquium entitled, “’More Than a Feeling?’: Perspectives on the Emotions from Literature, History, Philosophy, & Psychiatry,” presented by the UNC Humanities Program of the College of Arts and Sciences and the General Alumni Association
“Historical Research on the Self and Emotions, 1500-1800,”
· August 22, 2008
Lecture
Conference entitled “What Is Happening in Premodern Periods,” sponsored by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, Sigtuna, Sweden
“Saying Something New: Practice Theory and Cognitive Neuroscience,”
· May 31, 2008
Lecture
University of Chicago
Comment on a panel entitled “Love in 20th-century Africa: Affective Economies and Transnational Connections”
· January 4, 2008
Lecture
American Historical Association annual meeting