emotions in 'Americas and Beyond'
A symposium titled "In Living Culture: The Place of Emotions in the Americas and Beyond" will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.
The event is hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and co-sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, the Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, and the U.S. Department of Education.
The conference is intended to provide a rich, interdisciplinary venue for exploring the role and place of emotions within the context of the Americas and Spain.
"The events of September 11, 2001, and since, have only too forcefully illustrated how much emotions are instrumental not simply in defining moments of great import but in creating a further range of emotions so complex that we are sometimes at a loss for words how to express the power of these intricate clusters of emotions in our lives," says Noël Valis, professor and director of undergraduate studies in Spanish and Portuguese, who organized the symposium with Lidia Santos, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
The conference will examine the role and effects of emotions in popular culture, literature, art, film, nation-building, and the post-9/11 media, as well as the universal implications of the links between emotions and culture.
The symposium is free and open to the public. Talks begin at 10 a.m. on Friday and at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday. For further information, contact Noël Valis at noel.valis@yale.edu.
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