Drittmittelprojekt von Dr. Vladimir Ivanovici

Crafting Emotion: The Late Antique Panegyris as Embodied Experience

New Research project (EU: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship)

Supervised by Uta Heil and conducted by Vladimir Ivanovici, the research project Crafting Emotion: The Late Antique Panegyris as Embodied Experience (ca. 330-ca. 500) uses methodologies developed across the Historical, Social, and Cognitive Sciences to produce a comprehensive analysis of late antique martyr panegyria. Developed in collaboration with the Department of Psychology of the University of Vienna, the project seeks to identify how the ritual’s mise-en-scène shaped the participants’ response, and how we can relate the observable features of the experience to something as subjective as individual emotional responses.

The ultimate aim of the project is to develop an interdisciplinary model for the study of emotion manipulation in ritual contexts. The project received funding from both the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the European Commission (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship) and was granted a third year of funding by the University of Vienna.