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William M. Reddy

William T. Laprade Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History
History
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
226 Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708

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