Aesthetics of Memory and Emotions
Coord: Inês Robalo
This subgroup contributes to research on memory and emotions in literature and the arts from modernity till today. The study of contemporary artistic representations of trauma plays a dominant role in our activity. It considers the role played by different media in changing canonized patterns and ‘natural’ expectations. The subgroup analyzes aesthetic manifestations – philosophical, literary and artistic –of memory and emotions in modernity since Romanticism. It focuses on the encoding and regulation of emotions and their deconstruction in the subsequent periods – a process that started with the emergence of Realism, evolved until the turn of the century and is still visible in contemporary art and literature. Our research also aims at addressing possible gender-specific codes for the regulation and the aestheticization of emotions. It furthermore focuses on the radical change that culture and the arts underwent in the digital era and on the impact of the media and the new technologies in the cultural dimensions of memory and emotion.
Objectives
The main goal of this subgroup is to deepen the research on the artistic representations of memory and emotions, considering the close relationship between both. Specific aspects of this relationship, such as the topic of trauma and the present issue of transcultural identity associated to the phenomenon of migration, play a significant role in our research. This subgroup also considers the role played by the different media in changing canonized patterns and “natural” expectations. It aims at analyzing the aesthetic – philosophical, literary and artistic – manifestations of memory and emotions in Modernity since Romanticism and it sets its focus on the encoding and regulation of emotions and their deconstruction in the subsequent periods. It also analyzes gender-specific codes and their role in the regulation and aesthetization of emotions. This subgroup also addresses the radical change that culture and the arts underwent in the digital era and the impact of the media and the new technologies in the cultural dimensions of memory and emotion.
Recent and planned activities
27 – 28 de Março de 2023: Seminário Internacional. OS LABIRINTOS DO MAL: ENSAIOS SOBRE O ÓDIO NA LITERATURA E NO CINEMA. Org. Teresa Mendes, Gerd Hammer, Luís Cardoso. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.
2022. Fernanda Mota Alves et alii, Passages, deviations and bridges: memories of the Empire – Peter Lang.
2021. Alves, Fernanda; Mendes, Teresa & Seixas, Camila. The Children’s Book and Emotions Study Day. Lisboa: FLUL/CECcomp.
Key publications
- Seixas e Sousa, Camila et. al. (eds.) 2022. Memories of Displacement. Ribeirão: Edições Húmus.
- F. Mota Alves; G. Hammer; P. Lourenço (eds.) 2018. Identidades em trânsito. Famalicão: Edições Húmus.
- Rodrigues Cadete, Teresa. Friedrich Schiller. 2021. Ensaios Estéticos. Tradução / Introdução / Comentário / Glossário. V. N. Famalicão: Húmus.
- Soares, Luísa Afonso. 2021 ”Imagining Transcultural Identities in Turkish-German Literature and Cinema” in Discourses on Nation and Identities, The Many Languages of Comparative Literature, Vol.3, ed. Daniel Syrovy, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter.
- Schaper, Benjamin e Hammer, Gerd, eds. 2020. Loneliness. Revista Dedalus 24. Chamusca: Edições Cosmos.
Previous activities
- 2016. Mota Alves, Fernanda, Luísa Soares and Cristiana Vasconcelos Rodrigues. Estudos de Memória. Teoria e Análise Cultural. Lisboa: Húmus.
- 2011. Gil Costa, Fernanda and Igor Furão. Estética das Emoções. Lisboa: Húmus.
- 2010. Mota Alves, Fernanda, Daniela Di Pasquale, Sofia Tavares and Ricardo Gil Soeiro. Filologia, Memoria e Esquecimento – ACT 20. Lisboa: Húmus.
Full members
Cristiana Vasconcelos Rodrigues
Diana Myiake
Fernanda Gil Costa
Fernanda Mota Alves
Gerd Hammer
Luís Miguel Cardoso
Luísa Soares
Maria Inês Robalo
M. Francisca B. B. de Alvarenga
Patrícia Lourenço
Teresa Cadete
Teresa Mendes
Members in training
Camila Sousa
