4th Braga Colloquium in the History of Moral and Political Philosophy



The Politics of Emotions
Historical Insights and Contemporary Challenges

January 29-30, 2019

Venue:
University of Minho, Braga - Campus de Gualtar,
R. da Universidade, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal

Preliminary Program
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January 29, Tuesday

8:30 – 9:30 Registration

Opening Remarks
9:30 – 9:45
João Cardoso Rosas (Dean, Instituto de Letras e Ciencias Humanas - Minho), João Ribeiro Mendes (CEPS Director),
Daniele Santoro and Giuseppe Ballacci (CEPS, Minho)
Auditorium ILCH

Parallel Sessions

9:45 – 11:15 1.A Emotions in Modern Philosophy (1/3) 1.B Cognitive and Deliberative Dimensions

David Jiménez Castaño (Salamanca): “Passions and
politics in Thomas Hobbes”;
Luca Tenneriello (Sapienza - Rome): “Making social
consensus by emotions: Insights in the light of Thomas
Hobbes’s thought”;
Aaron Zubia (Columbia - New York): “Hobbes and
Mandeville on the Liberal Government of the Passions”
Lauren Nuckols (Central Washington): “The politics of
ambivalence”;
Bruno Daniel de Brito Serra (UBI/CEPS): “The blind
leading the blind: Illuminating the role of emotion in
political deliberation and decision-making”;
Job Vossen (Antwerp): “Positive and Negative Emotions. A
linguistic-historical perspective”

Chair: Chair:

Auditorium ILCH CEPS Seminar Room

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11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions
11:30 - 13:00 2.A Emotions in Modern Philosophy (2/3) 2.B The Normative Significance of Emotions

Aylon Cohen (Chicago): “Fraternity in 18th Century
Republicanism”;
Lorenzo del Savio (LMU, Munich) : “McCormick on
Machiavelli’s two humors and contemporary populism”;
Nora Timmermans (Leuven): “The public sphere,
sentimentalism and natural republicanism in the French
Revolution”
Virgil Brower (Charles Univ., Prague): “Shame, disgust &
physiology of race & identity politics: Emotional
transformations of the public sphere in Nussbaum &
Agamben”;
Francisco David Corrales Cordón (Girona): “Assessing
Nussbaum's arguments on fear as a political emotion”;
Krupa Patel (Harvard): “Envy: A justified and destabilizing
response to stark international inequalities”

Chair: Chair:
Auditorium ILCH CEPS Seminar Room

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break

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Parallel Sessions

15:00 – 17:00 3.A The Legacy of the Classics 3.B Collective Emotions and Mobilization

Gianluigi Segalerba (Vienna): “Reason and antireason in
Plato”;
Hélder Telo (Coimbra): “Political care and political
emotions in Plato and Aristotle”;
Emo Trimçev (Greifswald): “On the agonistic political
psychology of the symposium in Plato’s Laws”;
Ronald Weed (New Brunswick): “Aristotle on populist
emotions and political conflict”
Thomás Zicman de Barros (Science Po): “Anger (colère)
and outrage (indignation): two affects in contemporary
French demonstrations”;
Abel Franco (California State): “Genuinely collective
emotions?: Their reality and their political use”;
Andrea Nicolini (Verona): “Radical emotions: Some moral
considerations about jouissance and effervescence”;
Léna Silberzahn (Science Po, Paris): “Affect and agency in
environmental movements”

Chair: Chair:
Auditorium ILCH CEPS Seminar Room

17:00 – 17:15 Coffee Break

Plenary Lecture
17:15 – 18:45
Duncan Kelly (Cambridge)
“Max Weber's Political Thought and the First World War”

Auditorium ILCH

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January 30, Wednesday

9:30 -11:30 Parallel Sessions

4.A 20th Century Continental Theory 4.B Use and Role of Emotions in the Public Domain

Kathrin Bouvot (Vienna): “The role of the emotions in
politics”;
José Colen and António Baião (CEPS): “Rationality,
tyranny and ‘Hubris’: Foucault's reading of Sophocles'
Oedipus”;
Héla Hecker (Carl von Ossietzky Univ., Oldenburg):
“The relevance of emotions to politics: Re-reading
Hannah Arendt”;
Nythamar de Oliveira (PUCRS, Porto Alegre):
“Recasting political emotions: Critical theory,
neuroscience, and social life-forms”
Charlie Kurth (Western Michigan): “Should politicians be
anxious?”;
Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic (Roskilde): “Against comfort:
Political and social implications of evading discomfort”;
Maria del Pilar Sánchez Barajas (UNAM / Lisbon):
“After fair forgiveness”;
Ruth Rebecca Tietjen (Vienna): “Religious zeal as a
theologico-political affect”

Chair: Chair:

Auditorium ILCH CEPS Seminar Room

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break

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Parallel Sessions

5.A Emotions in Modern Philosophy (3/3)
11:45 – 13:15
Débora Gomes (UFRGS): “The centrality of affects in
Spinoza's political philosophy”;
Alexandra Oprea (Chapel Hill) and Wenqing Zhao
(Whitman College): “Bridging the ideal and non-ideal:
Compassion in the writings of Mencius and Rousseau”;
Marie Wuth (Aberdeen) “The power of affect: Re-
thinking political participation with Spinoza”
5.B Feminist Approaches to Political Emotions
Virginia Fusco (Carlos III, Madrid): “Love talks: Notes on
love as a political emotion in feminist theory”;
Alicia García Álvarez (Oviedo): “Emotions as tools for
political subversion: an epistemic approach on feminism”;
Laura Luz Silva (UCL, London): “Outlaw emotions: How
philosophy of emotion neglects the political domain of
emotions”

Chair: Chair:
Auditorium ILCH CEPS Seminar Room

13:15 – 15:00 Lunch Break

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Parallel Sessions
15:00 – 17:00 6.A Rhetoric and Political Emotions 6.B Critical Approaches: Language, Media, and
Capitalism

Giovanni Damele (Univ. Nova, Lisbon): “‘Sentiments’,
‘sophisms’ and ‘derivations’: Vilfredo Pareto as an
argumentation theorist”;
Rob Goodman and Samuel Bagg (McGill): “Preaching
to the choir? Persuasion, conversion, and the politics of
identity”;
Benedetta Romano (LMU, Munich) “Propaganda and
the ethics of emotional appeals”;
Mauro Serra (Salerno): “Political emotions: why we
need (ancient) rhetoric”
Elena Falletti (LIUC, Castellanza): “Character assassination
and fake news dissemination from Marie-Antoinette to
Facebook: What could we learn from the historical
experience?”;
John Pitseys (CRISP/UCL Louvain): “Emotions, Movies, and
Political Theory”;
Alba Baro Vaquero (Autonoma, Madrid) “Bandits’ stories
and the feeling for justice. The power of narrative stories in
traditional popular culture against power.”
(tbc)

Chair: Chair:
Auditorium ILCH CEPS Seminar Room

Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:15
17:15 – 18:45 Plenary Lecture

Richard Bellamy (European University Institute, Florence)

“Democracy and Lying: In What Ways Does the One Induce or Reduce the Other?”
Auditorium ILCH
18.45-19.00 Concluding Remarks
20.30 Social Dinner