CRASSH

10.30-11.00

Registration and coffee

11.00-11.15

Welcome address

11.15-13.00

Session 1: Histories of sympathy
Chair: Marianne Noble

Sylvana Tomaselli (History and Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge)
Lessons from the C18th: David Hume, Adam Smith and Edmund Burke on sympathy

Thomas Dixon (History, Queen Mary)
Neither selfish nor altruistic: sympathy and resignation in Darwin and Eliot

Carolyn Burdett (English, Birkbeck)
Feeling ourselves elsewhere: minds, bodies, aesthetics and the coining of empathy 

13.00-14.00

Lunch 

14.00- 15.45

Session 2: Emotional Response
Chair: Jonathan Lamb

Emma Mason (English, Warwick)
Rhythmanalysis: hearing feeling in poetry

Paul White (HPS and Cambridge University Library)
When sympathy becomes sentimental

Keith Tester  (Sociology, Hull)
Conspicuous kindness 

15.45-16.15

Coffee break

16.15-18.00

Session 3: Empathy in Practice
Chair: Rhodri Hayward

Margot Waddell (Psychoanalyst, Inst. of Psychoanalysis and Tavistock Clinic)
Meaning and emotion: a contemporary psychoanalytic view

Loraine Gelsthorpe (Criminology, Cambridge)
Sympathies and antipathies: neglected features of crime  and criminal justice

Ayesha Nathoo (HPS, Cambridge)
Expectations of giving 

18.00-19.00

Drinks reception at CRASSH

19.30 

Dinner  at Pembroke College, The Old Library 

10.15-12.00

Session 4: Body, Mind and Feeling
Chair: Dean Mobbs

Fay Bound Alberti (History, Queen Mary)
The heart of sympathy: embodying affect in medicine and culture

Heather Tilley (English, Birkbeck)
Francis Lieber’s symphenomena: the quest for language’s  emotional origins at the mid-nineteenth century

Chris Frith (Neuropsychology, UCL)
The neural basis of empathy and altruism  

12.00-13.00

Lunch

13.00-14.45

Session 5: Antipathies
Chair: Peter de Bolla

Ildiko Csengei (English, Pembroke College, Cambridge)
The politics of sympathy

Tilottama Rajan (English, Western Ontario)

Arne Vetlesen (Philosophy, Oslo)
The role of antipathies in collective evildoing 

14.45-15.15

Coffee

15.15-17.00

Session 6: round table and discussion

Panellists
Dr Peter De Bolla (English, King's College, Cambridge)
Dr Rhodri Hayward (History, Queen Mary, London)
Prof. Jonathan Lamb (English, Vanderbilt University)
Dr Dean Mobbs (Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)
Prof. Marianne Noble (English, American University)