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11th International Society for Intellectual History Conference
University of Bucharest
Romania

26-28 May 2011

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Passionate Minds
Knowledge and the Emotions in Intellectual History

The centrality of the emotions in all areas of human thought, action and expression has
lately begun to be recognized and investigated with increasing interest within a variety
of disciplines, from cognitive science and the philosophy of emotions to literary and
anthropological studies. One central insight of such explorations is that the view of the
separation and even opposition between cognition and affectivity is an unjust representation of
the complexity of the life of both individuals and communities. Intellectual historians
have also become sensitive to the issue and are in fact in a privileged position to bring
to the fore the variety and richness of the approaches to the interplay of knowledge and
the emotions in the history of thought.
This conference aims to address the topic of the interplay of emotions and cognition as
it bears on historical views of epistemology, logic, psychology, theology, medicine, moral
philosophy or aesthetics, on approaches to education and the transmission of knowledge,
as well as on the dynamics of intellectual communities. We invite panels and individual
papers that address any aspect of this theme with reference to any historical period, as well
as relevant methodological and historiographic questions. There will also be general
sessions devoted to other proposed intellectual historical topics.

Please send your panel proposals and paper abstracts by 15 December 2010 to the
conference organizers: Dana Jalobeanu, dana.jalobeanu@celfis.ro and Sorana Corneanu,
soranamihaela.corneanu@g.unibuc.ro. For more info see the web-page of the conference at
http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/isih/?page_id=38

Participation fee: 90 EUR for faculty and 60 EUR for students and unemployed members.