Research group Network for the study of emotions
Cordelia comforts her father, King Lear (in Shakespeare’s play). Oil painting by George William Joy, 1886. On display at Leeds Art Gallery.
It is coordinated from the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, but includes researchers from all over SU, as well as nationally and internationally. It mainly brings together researchers in the humanities and social sciences, but also welcomes researchers in psychology, behavioural sciences, natural sciences, medicine and health sciences.
Anyone interested in joining the network can email to (please include all three addresses):
sara.ekstrom@idehist.su.se; annika.berg@idehist.su.se; nike.stolpe.wikstrom@idehist.su.se
Workshops
Welcome to the fifth workshop by the Network for the Study of Emotions where we are delighted to welcome Batja Mesquita, a social psychologist and leading scholar in cultural psychology, for a seminar and lecture on emotions and culture.
Date: Thursday 10 December 2026
Time: 13:00 - 18:00
Location: The Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Manne Siegbahn Buildings, Frescativägen 22B and 24E
More information and registration
On 27 May 2026 a talk with artist Linnéa Sjöberg and the Network for the Study of Emotions on identity, power and the politics of emotions was arranged. The event was part of exhibition hall Accelerator’s Art + Research programme.
On 1 June 2026 we arranged the fourth workshop of the Network for the Study of Emotions. It took the form of an afternoon seminar with Eric Cullhed, professor of Ancient Greek at Uppsala University, as invited guest.
One of our workshops took place on 14 October, 2025. A chapter from Canadian-American psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett’s How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (2017) was discussed.
18 March 2025 the network arranged a workshop with keynote speaker psychologist Disa Sauter, University of Amsterdam. The workshop also featureed a multidisciplinary panel on methodology in the study of emotions.
The workshop 24 October 2024 was visited by Rob Boddice, renowned historian specializing in the History of Emotions, currently affiliated with the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence for the History of Experiences at the University of Tampere.
There are no research project connections.