The ETT Final conference programme is now online!
Read MoreAnnouncement: ETT final conference (Nicosia, 27-29 September 2017)
Registration to the final conference of the ETT project (Nicosia, 27-29 September 2017) is now open! Please follow the link in the announcement page on this website to register.
Read More7-8 July 2017: ETT workshop 3 – Visualizing and Enacting Emotions (Art, Space, Performance)
Vienna, Institut für Kunstgeschichte (Universität Wien) The third and final ETT workshop concludes our preliminary work. Soon we will circulate the Call for the final conference in Cyprus, 27-29 September 2017.
Read MoreA World of Emotions
We gladly give notice of this exhibition, organised and hosted by the Onassis Cultural Center New York from March 9 to June 24, 2017: A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC – 200 AD Starting on March 9, the Onassis Cultural Center New York brings to vivid life the emotions of the people of ancient Greece, and prompts questions about how we express, control, manipulate, or simulate…
Read More17 March 2017: ETT workshop 2 – Inducing Emotions (Rhetoric, Politics, Narrative)
Geneva, Fondation Hardt ETT workshop 2 was a success!
Read MoreFeatured Emotion: A work in progress
As we gear up for the first ETT workshop next month, we have also decided to inaugurate the blog category of ‘Featured Emotion’. Here we will regularly display examples of our research findings. Stay tuned!
Read MoreOn Phrike
For an example of the ETT‘s members research, check out two public talks by our PI Douglas Cairns: The Horror and the Pity: Phrike as a Tragic Emotion (2014) Language, Literature, and History in the Study of Emotion (2016) Douglas Cairns – Language, literature, and history in the study of emotion from The World As We Feel It on Vimeo.
Read MoreDouglas Cairns (PI)
Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics at Edinburgh University and ETT‘s principal investigator. Having received his PhD in Greek from the University of Glasgow, he later taught at University of St Andrews, University of Otago, University of Leeds and University of Glasgow before finally coming to Edinburgh where he took up the Chair of Classics in 2004. Following Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung research fellowships (1993-5 and 2011) and a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2008-11), Douglas received a Senior Research…
Read MoreNiels Gaul
Niels Gaul is A.G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies and Acting Head of Classics (until 31 July 2016) at Edinburgh University and a member of ETT‘s network. Having graduated from Oxford (MSt, 1999) and Bonn (PhD, 2005), Niels was Dilts-Lyell Research Fellow in Greek palaeography (University of Oxford, 2005–2007), Associate Professor of Byzantine studies (Central European University, 2007–2015) and most recently, in 2015, he was appointed A. G. Leventis Chair of Byzantine Studies at Edinburgh. Niels…
Read MoreIoannis Papadogiannakis
Ioannis Papadogiannakis is Lecturer in Classics at the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London and a member of ETT‘s network. Having studied at the Universities of Thessaloniki and Münster, in 2004 Ioannis defended his PhD at Princeton University. Entitled Christianity and Hellenism in the Fifth-Century Roman Empire: The Apologetics of Theodoret of Cyrrhus Against the Greeks in Context, his dissertation (and first book in press from Harvard…
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