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</head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; ">Dear Colleagues,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div>Roger <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">Patulny</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> asked me to circulate this CfP. For further information please contact </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Ms Claire Seaman:
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">cseaman@uow.edu.au</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; ">Please find attached the call for paper for 'Emotions vs Affect', the 2014 Sociology of Emotions and Affect (SEA) Workshop. This will be held at the University of Wollongong, on November 21. The keynote speakers will be Professors Jack Barbalet and Rick Idema. A brief synopsis is included below:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Emotion vs. Affect?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Sociologists of emotion are increasingly turning to theories of affect to deepen their<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">conceptualisations of emotion in social interaction. However, this task is complicated by the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">many meanings and phenomena ascribed to the term ‘affect.’ Sociologists aligned with the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">‘affective turn’ within cultural theory view affect as a ‘pre-personal’ phenomena (see<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Massumi, 1987), incorporating qualities ranging from ‘atmosphere’ to ‘sound’ to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">‘pheromones’ that are empirically difficult to assess. Such conceptions provide relief from<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">the cultural turn’s overemphasis of social determinism and language. In contrast,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">sociologists who ascribe to ‘affect-control theory’ view affect as symbolic of a person’s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">evaluation, power and liveliness. They see it as a pivotal element to understanding identity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">as well as measuring and predicting behaviour, which aligns with more conventional<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">sociological accounts of emotion. Both keynote speakers will be invited to chair a panel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">comparing affect and emotions research.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; ">We look forward to seeing you there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; ">Yours,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; ">Roger, Rebecca, and Jordan</p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; "><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; "><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; "><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; ">Dr Lisa Slater</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; "> | Lecturer in Cultural Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; ">School of Humanities and Social Inquiry | Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; ">University of Wollongong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; ">Building 19, Arts Building </span><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; ">|University of Wollongong | Wollongong NSW 2522<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; ">t (612) 4239 2554 | f (612) 4221 5341 | <a href="http://www.uow.edu.au/arts" target="_blank" style="color: blue; "><span style="color: windowtext; ">http://www.uow.edu.au</span></a> | </span><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; ">lslater@uow.edu.au</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><b style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; "><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face', serif; "><br></span></p></div><br></div></body></html>