Curie Virag

This workshop seeks to bring together scholars of ancient China and Greece,working broadly in the history and philosophy of emotions, to investigate the emergent discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine and literature from c. 5th century BCE to the 2nd century CE. Recent work among scholars working in both ancient traditions has shown that the emotions emerged as an object of inquiry around the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, as part of a series of debates about the nature and workings of the body, the human being more broadly, and the physical world. The goal of this workshop is to explore, from a cross-cultural framework, how and why certain accounts of emotions may have emerged in China and Greece during the most formative period of their cultural and intellectual development.