Discourses of the Emotions
April 19-21, 1990
with Herbert Blau, Mitchell Breitwieser, Marcus Bullock, Virginia Carmichael, Rey Chow, Ed Cohen, Valie Export, Jane Gallop, Marjorie Garber, Elizabeth Grosz, Gregory Jay, Lynne Joyrich, Gwynee Kennedy, Kathleen Kirby, Andrew Martin, Gloria Jean Masciarotte, Patricia Mellencamp, Michael Moon, Meaghan Morris, Patrice Petro, Robin Pickering-Iazzi, Thomas Piontek, Julia Schiesari, Gabriele Schwab, Murray Schwartz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Madelon Sprengnether, Susan Stewart, Carol Tennessen, Calvin Thomas, Kathleen Woodward, and Lynn Worsham
Thursday, April 19
1:30-3:30 Kathleen Woodward: Introduction
Meaghan Morris, “Ecstasy and Economics: A Portrait of Paul Keating”
4-6 Panel: Cultural Studies
Lynne Joyrich, “Going Through the E/Motions: Gender, Postmodernism, and Affect in Television Studies”
Gloria-Jean Masciarotte, “The Sire of the Ugly Woman: Nineteenth-Century Sensationalism and the Dysfunction of the Emotions”
Rey Chow, “Revolution as Commodity and Commodity as Revolution: The Emotions of Contemporary Chinese Popular Music”
Introduction: Andrew Martin
7:30 Screening: Pink Flamingos
Friday, April 20
Panel: Public Emotions
Murray Schwartz, “Postures of Triumph”
Virginia Carmichael, “Death by Text: The Work on Ethel Rosenberg”
Ed Cohen, “POLITICAL (E)MOTION: Of Movements and Affect(ion)s. A Ramble”
Introduction: Patrice Petro
11:30-1 Herbert Blau, “The Surpassing Body: Emotional Memory in the Ideology of Desire”
Introduction: Gregory Jay
2:30-4:30 Panel: Mourning
Kathleen Woodward, “Freud and Barthes: Theorizing Mourning, Sustaining Grief”
Mitchell Breitwieser, “The Great Gatsby: The Refusal of Mourning”
Juliana Schiesari, “Appropriating the Work of Women’s Mourning: On Some Affective Consequences of the Italian Renaissance”
Introduction: Kathleen Kirby
5-6:30 Marjorie Garber, “Qué es más macho?: Adulation, Star Quality, and the Transvestite Continuum”
Introduction: Gwynne Kennedy
Saturday, April 21
10:00-12 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Michael Moon, “Divinity: A Little-Understood Emotion”
Introduction: Thomas Piontek
2-3:30 Susan Stewart, “Anxiety and Authenticity”
Introduction: Marcus Bullock
4-6 Panel: Anxiety
Calvin Thomas, “Excorporation, Anxiety, and the Narrative of Masculine Violence”
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, “Unseduced Mothers: The Resisting Female Subject and Male Anxiety in Italian Popular Culture of the 1920s and 30s”
Patricia Mellencamp, “Crisis and Compulsion: Life after Betty Ford”
Introduction: Kathleen Woodward
Discussants: Valie Export, Jane Gallop, Elizabeth Grosz, Gabriele Schwab, Madelon Sprengnether, Lynn Worsham
Special Guests: Susan Bernstein, Sidney Bremer, Teresa Brown, Pamela Caughie, Betsy Draine, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Claudia Johnson
