The Emotions of Crisis: an interdisciplinary workshop on ancient and modern concepts, perspectives, and solutions

• Monday 7 July 2025, 9am-5pm
• Seminar Room 2, University of Liverpool Management School
• Keynote: Professor Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh)

We all experience extreme emotions during periods of crisis and their aftermath. Questions of how to cope with the emotional distress provoked by overwhelming experience and how to navigate the memory of such events have preoccupied humanity from antiquity to today. This one-day interdisciplinary workshop seeks to open further inquiries into the framing and experience of emotion in the ‘lived’ experience of individuals (both ‘real life’ and fictional) and ancient discussions of emotion, trauma, and wellbeing, and to prompt dynamic new conversations across and beyond the arts and humanities around the legacy of ancient ideas around emotion in the modern world.

Contact: Dr Elaine C. Sanderson (elaine.sanderson@liverpool.ac.uk)

This event is made possible thanks to the support of the University of Liverpool’s Early Career Researchers and Returners Fund.