International conference “Establishing Empathy: Education, Emotions and Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”
This international conference explores the relationships between empathy, education and society in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe and its transnational connections.
Establishing Empathy. Education, Emotions and Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Perceiving empathy as the capacity to put oneself in someone else’s shoes and to share his or her feelings and experiences, the conference pursues two goals. First, it strives to examine the social and cultural institutions across Europe that functioned as “schools of empathy” and to question their effects on community building as well as on social mechanisms of inclusion or exclusion. Second, it aims to analyze the groups and individuals that served as “educators” as well as the educational practices they developed.
Programm
Thursday, March 31
14.00–14.30 WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (Hamburg), Esther Möller (München), Katharina Stornig (Giessen)
14.30–16.45 PANEL 1: SITES OF EMOTIONAL EDUCATION
Chair: Patrick Bühler (Solothurn)
Presenters:
– Carola Groppe (Hamburg): Empathy in Families. The Education of Children and Adolescents in German Bourgeois Families in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
– Emily Manktelow (London): Affecting Empathy. Empathy and the Family in the Colonial Missionary World
– Katharina Stornig (Giessen): Christian Associations, Voluntarism and the Making of Charitable Children in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
16.45–18.15 Coffee Break
18.15–19.45 KEYNOTE: Ute Frevert (Berlin): Historicizing Empathy and Education
(Universität Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 8, Anna-Siemsen-Hörsaal)
Friday, April 1
9.15–10.15 CURRENT PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Esther Möller (München)
Presenters:
– Fabian Kessl (Wuppertal/Innsbruck)/Holger Schoneville (Hamburg): The New Charity Economy. Emotions in the Structural Transformation of Welfare State Arrangements
10.15–13.00 PANEL 2: EMPATHY IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL REFOM
Chair: Esther Möller (München)
Presenters:
– Maria Lucenti (Hamburg): Developing Empathy in Religion Education. From the “big six” to Worldviews
11.00–11.30 COFFEE BREAK
– Stella Maria Frei (Giessen): To “Help That Great Orphan – Humanity”. Empathy as an Instruction in Welfare after WWII
– Susan Lanzoni (Boston): Creating Empathic Connections across Cultural and Racial Barriers in Mid-Century America
13.00–14.30 LUNCH
14.15–17.00 PANEL 3: EMPATHY AND THE PROFESSIONS
Chair: Till Kössler (Halle-Wittenberg)
Presenters:
– Sarah Chaney (London): “Tyranny on the wards”. Establishing Empathy in British Nursing Education, 1900–1939
– Sandra Schnädelbach (Düsseldorf): Empathy as a Tool for Social Change? German Judges and Legal Practice in the Light of Reform Movements around 1900
15.45–16.15 COFFEE BREAK
– Rob Boddice (Tampere): The Politics of Commiseration. Medical Authority, Intersubjectivity, and the Experience of Pain
17.30 Exploring Hamburg’s Colonial Past
Saturday, April 2
9.00–12.15 PANEL 4: POLITICS AND ESTABLISHING EMPATHY
Chair: Katharina Stornig (Giessen)
Presenters:
– Emmanuel Delille (Mainz): Empathy, Choice and National Solidarities in the Testimonies of Deported Physicians
– Joseph Ben Prestel (Berlin): The Palestine Solidarity Movement in West Germany and the Politics of Suffering
10.30–10.45 COFFEE BREAK
– Riley Linebaugh (Mainz/Giessen): The Consequences of Imperial Empathy during the British End of Empire
– Dolores Martín Moruno (Geneva): Is the Organisation Sea-Watch our contemporary ‘University of Empathy’?
12.15–13.00: Concluding Remarks and Final Discussion
Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (Hamburg), Esther Möller (München)
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-116651
https://www.conferences.uni-hamburg.de/event/242/