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The Global Sentimentality Project is conducted by a network of scholars interested in the sentimental. The aesthetics and politics of the sentimental are examined in different research fields. The project facilitates exchange and collaboration across disciplines in workshops, lecture series, and public talks as well as in joint publications, among other formats. Moreover, our program offers short-term fellowships for junior and senior scholars worldwide at FAU Erlangen and publishes the book series „Global Sentimentality“ with transcript. To contact us and to learn more, please write to project-sentimental@fau.de.


What makes us cry? Where do we allow ourselves to cry? And when do we enjoy being moved to tears? In other words, what are the forms and functions of the sentimental? The Global Sentimentality Project examines how the sentimental unfolds its power as an aesthetic narrative strategy, as a practice of crisis management, and as a technology of political mobilization. Our understanding of the sentimental revises the stigmatization of the term in popular parlance and extends its meaning beyond a set of literary texts. The sentimental shapes aesthetic experiences of all kinds. It operates in different cultural settings and in various political contexts where it has been analyzed as either facilitating or obstructing change. The Global Sentimentality Project brings together scholars from around the world and from different disciplines in order to compare the workings of the sentimental across cultures, social formations, and historical periods.

 

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The research training group "The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics" invites applications for 12 fully funded PhD positions, starting in April 2025. Moreover we offer 4 positions for associated PhD candidates. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2024.

Kategorie: Allgemein

To the Last Drop: Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality is out now with transcript! Read the open access online version here.

Kategorie: Allgemein

Apply now! The Global Sentimentality Fellowship brings promising young scholars as well as renowned experts in the field of sentimentality studies to Erlangen. It is open to applicants from around the world and from all disciplines in the humanities. Fellows are expected to be in residence at Erl...

Kategorie: Fellowship