Rebecca McNamara is a lecturer in medieval literature at UCLA. She studies the history of emotions related to the suicidal impulse in medieval English literature and culture, a project she began as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. This paper was delivered at a research workshop on ‘Medieval Emotions and Contemporary Methodologies’ at Birkbeck, University of London, on 8 July 2016. In the paper, Rebecca analyses her article ‘The Sorrow of Soreness: Infirmity and Suicide in Medieval England’ (Parergon 31.2 (2014), pp. 11-34) in order to unpack how she uses language as an intellectual inroad for uncovering how emotional habits and practices were established and how they evolved.

Ella Kilgallon is a doctoral student at Queen Mary, University of London. Her AHRC funded project investigates the lived and imagined spaces of female members of the Franciscan third order in thirteenth-century Italy. This paper was delivered at a research workshop on ‘Medieval Emotions and Contemporary Methodologies’ at Birkbeck, University of London, on 8 July 2016. In the paper, Ella discusses the life of Angela of Foligno, a female penitent and member of the Franciscan third order, and analyses the physicality of her emotional response upon entering two key Franciscan churches.

Carolyne Larrington is Professor of Medieval European Literature at The University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St John's College. She is the author of Brothers and Sisters in Medieval European Literature (York Medieval Press, 2015) and editor, with Frank Brandsma and Corinne Saunders, of Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature (D. S. Brewer, 2015). This seminar paper, 'Thinking About Feeling: Text, Emotion and Audience in Middle English Secular Literature', was delivered at The University of Western Australia on 22 November 2016. Why, how and how far, it asks, can or should we assimilate the study of literature in medieval secular texts to the 'history of emotions' approach?

Annalise Acorn is Professor of Law at the University of Alberta. She works on the theory of emotions in the context of conflict and justice, and is the author of Compulsory Compassion: A Critique of Restorative Justice (UBC Press, 2004) and a forthcoming book on resentment and responsibility. This public lecture opened a conference on 'Emotions in Legal Practice: Historical and Modern Attitudes Compared', and was delivered at The University of Sydney on 26 September 2016. In the paper, Acorn argues that criminal punishment devoid of emotions of blame is contrary to the morally robust justification for the criminal law. The lecture was jointly sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and Sydney Ideas.

Emma Hutchison is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies at The University of Queensland, and an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her research examines trauma and emotions in world politics, as well as how the emotional dimensions of disaster images shape humanitarian practices. This paper, delivered at a conference on ‘Emotions, Media and History: Theory and Practice’ at The University of Adelaide on 23 September 2016, investigates the development of ‘humanitarian emotions’ through images, and argues that emotions are pivotal to transforming how we think about others’ suffering.

Brenton J. Malin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. He studies and teaches media history, theory and criticism, and is the author of Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America (NYU Press, 2014). This lecture, 'Electrifying Voices: Technology and Public Speaking in the Early Twentieth-Century United States', opened a conference on 'Emotions, History and Media: Theory and Practice' at The University of Adelaide. It was delivered on 22 September 2016, and explores how a series of technological developments in the early twentieth-century United States aided in the creation of a new model of public speech.

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is Professor in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. She is interested in the relationship between citizenship, democracy and the media. This paper, which focuses on the ways in which anger is constructed as a collective and motivating force in political protest (and challenges to these constructions), was delivered at a conference on 'Emotions, Media and History: Theory and Practice' at The University of Adelaide on 23 September 2016.

Katie Barclay is a DECRA Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Adelaide. Her current project focuses on intimate relationships amongst the Scottish lower orders between 1660 and 1830. This paper, 'The Caring Touch of lower Order Masculinity: A Case Study of Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Scotland', was presented at a conference on the theme of 'Gender Worlds, 500-1800: New Perspectives', at The University of Western Australia on 8 October 2016.

David Matthews is Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies at the University of Manchester. He delivered this keynote paper at 'Feeling (For) the Premodern', a symposium held at The University of Western Australia on 2 September 2016. In the paper, Professor Matthews examines medievalism and apprehensions of the Middle Ages in three different phases: the Renaissance to the Romantics; the Napoleonic Wars to the mid-nineteenth century; and the aftermath of Victorian medievalism.

Clare Davidson is a doctoral candidate at The University of Western Australia. On 7 June 2016, she delivered the following paper at a workshop on ‘Translating Chaucer, Chaucer as Translator’ at The University of Western Australia. In the paper, she considers medieval representations of the anatomical and spiritual effects of desire, drawing attention to our role as readers and translators of the emotional body.