History of Emotions: Where Are We?

As we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the CHE, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion (initially focusing on Europe 1100–1800 and with the late Professor Philippa Maddern as its founding Director) and the fifth anniversary of the launch of the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society (founding Editors: Katie Barclay, Andrew Lynch, Giovanni Tarantino), it is only pertinent that we look back and assess our efforts by hearing from some prominent emotions scholars who contributed in different ways and capacities to this pathbreaking intellectual journey.

Dr. Robert Butler’s Legacy in Defining and Fighting Ageism

Robert N. Butler, MD (1927–2010), coined the term “ageism” in 1969 to define an age-driven bigotry that disengaged older persons from virtually all sectors of American life. As founding director of the National Institute of Aging, as head of the first geriatrics department in a US medical school, and as a trailblazing idea broker, Dr. Butler continually sought to make Americans aware about the insidious effects of ageism. He accomplished much in promoting education and research, but Dr. Butler’s personal and professional campaign to extirpate ageism remains his greatest legacy.

In Memoriam: Dr. Claire Quintal (1930-2020)

This tribute to the late Dr. Claire Quintal, Founding Director Emerita of Assumption University’s French Institute, traces her productive career as a pioneer and advocate in the field of Franco-American studies, as well as an early proponent of la Francophonie movement. Cet hommage à la regrettée Dr. Claire Quintal, Directrice Fondatrice de l’Institut français de l’Assumption University, suit sa carrière fructueuse en tant que pionnière et porte-parole dans le domaine des études franco-américaines ainsi que protagoniste dès son début du mouvement de la Francophonie.

Re-storying place: The pedagogical force of walking in the work of Indigenous artist-activists Émilie Monnet and Cam

Walking plays a generative and pedagogical role in the work of contemporary artists Émilie Monnet (Anishnaabe/French) and Cam (Innu/Québecois), both of whom work and live in the region known as a Tiohtià:ke to the Haudenosaunee, as Mooniyang to the Anishinaabeg, and as Montréal to many others. This article proposes that recent artistic interventions and participatory projects offered by Monnet and Cam infuse the international discourse about walking as a pedagogical force with their distinct perspectives as Indigenous women. They employ walking to reinforce their presence, to learn from place, to contest colonial narratives and exclusions conveyed by visual culture, to honour their ancestors, to indigenize collective memory by amplifying Indigenous voices and contributing to the re-storying of place, a concept inspired by Potawatomi environmental biologist Robin Kimmerer. Monnet is an interdisciplinary artist who combines theatre, performance, image and sound art as a performer, creator and director. She is also the founding director of Onishka, an mutlimedia Indigenous arts organization. Cam is a street artist and the lead coordinator of Unceded Voices, a street art convergence for artists who are Indigenous women, women of colour, queer, two-spirit and gender non-conforming. She is also currently the national coordinator of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective. With a shared awareness that the dynamics that comprise place are intrinsically relational and dialogical, the work of Cam and Monnet intervenes in the felt and seen world to reinforce their sense of belonging to this region. Walking is integral to their respective research, creation and collaboration that enables their work to contest dominant colonial narratives while honouring the contributions of those who have been disavowed.

Dem Frieden verpflichtet

As an officer, military theorist and peace researcher, Wolf Graf von Baudissin seems to have been a living contradiction. He began his military career in the German Reichswehr and, as a soldier in Hitler’s Wehrmacht, fought in the Battle of France during World War II, before being captured by the British in Africa in 1941. During the development of the German armed forces, he became one of the most important pioneers of the concept of ‘Innere Führung’, which is based on the guiding principle of the citizen in uniform and stipulates how soldiers should be led and treat each other. From 1971 to 1984 he worked as the founding director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. In this book, the historian Dagmar Bussiek portrays Baudissin’s incredible life story by drawing on a wide range of sources.

The Observatory of Justice for Afrodescendants in Latin America (OJALA) as an initiative of engaged anthropology for the promotion and defense of human rights

In this essay, I write about the initiative of engaged legal anthropology that led to the formation of the Observatory of Justice for Afrodescendants in Latin America (OJALA), housed in the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (KG-LACC) at Florida International University (FIU). I have been delighted to serve as OJALA’s main coordinator and founding director since February 2018. This piece’s intent is to explain the foundation of OJALA, out of an interest for understanding how the Latin American multiculturalist state “functions” in the concrete relations it threads with its Afrodescendant citizens, and particularly and most importantly, what the state’s justice system does, or doesn’t do, in the courts of law, with the legal instruments the “new Latin American constitutionalism” brought, when the time comes to defend Afrodescendants’ rights. This led us to engage in careful comparative ethnographic work on specific litigations filed by Afrodescendants in the justice systems of various Latin American countries. Ultimately, the ethnographic knowledge of Latin American justice systems “at work” will be useful for the enhancement of the public acknowledgement, protection, and defense of Afrodescendants’ rights.

The Pärt Sound

This chapter takes the form of an interview with Paul Hillier, author of the first monograph on Pärt and founding director of the Hilliard Ensemble—responsible for several of the standard recordings of Pärt’s works in the 1980s and ’90s. The focus of the conversation concerns issues in the performance of Pärt’s works and their effect on their resulting sound.

Interview with Fritjof Capra | Entrevista com Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra, PhD., physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He is a Fellow of Schumacher College (UK) and serves on the Council of Earth Charter International. Capra is the author of several international bestsellers, including “The Tao of Physics (1975), “The Web of Life” (1996), and “The Hidden Connections (2002). He is co-author, with Pier Luigi Luisi, of the multidisciplinary textbook, “The Systrems View of Life” (2014). Capra’s online course (www.capracourse.net) is based on his textbook.

Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project: Citizen Science and Student-Based Discoveries for 15 Years and Counting

The Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes an individual who has had a significant impact on genetics education at any education level. Seth R. Bordenstein, Ph.D., Centennial Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University and Founding Director of the Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative, is the 2020 recipient in recognition of his cofounding, developing, and expanding Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project.