Iain McCalman is a Research Professor in History at The University of Sydney, co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and an Advisory Board Member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. In this lecture, delivered at The University of Western Australia on 29 August 2016, Professor McCalman outlines why and how a small episode of elephant killing during Theodore Roosevelt’s eleven-month African Safari of 1909–1910 led to his current book-in-progress on hunting and human-animal emotions.

Carol Lansing is Professor of History at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is a specialist in the society, politics and culture of medieval Italy. On 12 February 2014, she delivered this keynote paper at a conference on ‘Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe: 1200 to the Present’ at The University of Adelaide. In the paper, she argues that accounts of abduction in late medieval Italy can be read as ritual power struggles that were carried out through displays of emotion.

Stephanie Trigg is Professor of Medieval Literature at The University of Melbourne and Director of the Melbourne node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. On 14 July 2016, she delivered the 2016 Biennial Chaucer Lecture at the New Chaucer Society conference in London.

Laura M. Stevens is Associate Professor of English at The University of Tulsa, co-editor of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature and President of the Society of Early Americanists. She delivered this keynote paper on 2 July 2016 at ‘Emotions: Movement, Cultural Contact and Exchange, 1100–1800’, a conference jointly organised by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100–1800) and the Freie Universität Berlin.

Paul Megna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Western Australia. On 7 June 2016, he delivered this paper at a workshop titled 'Chaucer as Translator/Translating Chaucer'. In the paper, he argues that Chaucer was acutely interested in exploring how fantasies of parrhesia, or frank speech, shaped subjectivity.

Monique Scheer delivered her keynote lecture entitled 'Fetishizing Emotions' at the Emotions: Movement, Cultural Contact and Exchange, 1100-1800 Conference at the Freie Universität Berlin on 30 June 2016. The conference was jointly organised by The Freie University Berlin and The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 1100-1800.

Helen Hills is Professor of Art History at the University of York. She specialises in the art and architecture of Baroque Italy. On 10 February 2014, she delivered this keynote paper at a conference on ‘Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe: 1200 to the Present’ at The University of Adelaide. In the paper, she examines the interplay between affect and religion through materiality in order to bring together material and spiritual approaches that have too often excluded each other.

Bob White is Winthrop Professor of English at The University of Western Australia and a Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe, 1100–1800). On 15 April 2016, he delivered this paper at a symposium on 'Emotion, Ethics and War' at The University of Western Australia.

Ada Palmer presented this paper at the 'Afterlives of Hellenistic Ethics' symposium at The University of Queensland, on 8 April 2016. In the paper, she analyses why Pious Renaissance Humanists read and defended the Roman 'Atheist' Lucretius.

Louis C. Charland is a jointly appointed professor in the departments of Philosophy and Psychiatry at Western University in Ontario, Canada, and a Partner Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. On 17 June 2016, he delivered this paper at a workshop on 'passion' and 'emotion' at The University of Western Australia.