Speakers 2020

Keynote

Juliane Brauer, researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

Juliane Brauer (Dr. phil. habil) is Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Centre for the History of Emotions, Berlin. In 2019 she was the Stavenhagen-Guest-Professor at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University. She studied Modern History and Musicology at the Humboldt University and University of Bielefeld. In 2007 she completed her PhD in History at the Free University of Berlin about Music in Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen. In 2019 she completed her habilitation about singing as educational practice in divided Germany. Beside the area of Modern German history and emotions her research interests include the field music, emotion and torture in the history of 19th and 20th century.

Publications of interest:
– Brauer, J., ,Stille Nacht’ Time and Again: Christmas Songs and Christmas Feelings, in: Pamela Classen, Monique Scheer (ed.), The Public Work of Christmas: Difference & Belonging in Multicultural Societies, McGill-Queen’s University Press 2019, S. 60-87.
– Brauer, J., Music, body and emotion between well-being, manipulation and torture in the twentieth century, in: Penelope Gouk (ed. et.al.), The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Well-being: Historical and Scientific Perspectives, Routledge 2019, 149-162.
– Brauer, J., How Can Music Be Torturous? Music in Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps, in: Music & Politics, Volume X, Issue 1, Summer 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mp.9460447.0010.103

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Presenters

Helen Abbott Professor of French Poetry and Music University of Birmingham
Emilio A. Aguilar Balbuena rMA Student of Cultural Analysis & Early Music Singing University of Amsterdam & Conservatory of Amsterdam
Maaheen Ahmed Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Ghent University
Stewart Campbell Doctoral Researcher University of Birmingham
Bidisha Chakraborty Doctoral Researcher, Department of English Banaras Hindu University
Tine De Koninck Doctoral Researcher University of Antwerp
Cécile de Morrée Postdoctoral Researcher Utrecht University
Nicholas Hammond Professor, Department of French Cambridge University
Uffe Holmsgard Eriksen Postdoc University of Southern Denmark
Lotte Jensen Professor of Cultural and Literary History Radboud University Nijmegen
Malte Kobel Doctoral Researcher, Department of Music Kingston University London
Doina Kraal Artistic Researcher Leiden University & Royal Academy of Arts The Hague
Adriana La Selva Artistic Researcher Ghent University, KASK School of Arts Gent & Institute a.pass
Lauren Michelle Levesque Assistant Professor, Providence School of Transformative Leadership and Spirituality Saint Paul University Ottawa
Elisabeth Lutteman Doctoral Researcher, Department of English Uppsala University
Bjarne Markussen Professor of Nordic Literature University of Agder
Gustavo Penha Professor of Music Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul
Leonie Persyn Doctoral Researcher,  Department of Music, Visual Arts and Performance Studies Ghent University
Anne Sigrid Refsum Doctoral Researcher, Department of Language and Literature Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Omri Ruah-Midbar Researcher of Digital Culture and Music Givat Washington Academic College of Education Israel & Academic and Technology College of Tel-Hai
Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro Department of Mysticism and Spirituality Zefat Academic College Israel
Johan M. Staxrud Doctoral Researcher, Culture Studies University of South-Eastern Norway
Tamara Turner Research Fellow, Center for the History of Emotions Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Carmen Verhoeven MA student, Dutch Literature and Culture Utrecht University
Henk Vogel Doctoral Researcher Protestant Theological University Amsterdam
Renée Vulto Doctoral Researcher, Department of Literary Studies Ghent University
Lea Wierød Borčak Postdoc Fellow Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies