Encounters and Emotions in Colonial Histories: Panel Discussion

European exploration and colonisation in the early modern period, whether in the Americas, Asia or Australia, prompted a range of encounters between diverse peoples and cultures. But how did emotions – fear, anger, or sorrow – shape these encounters? And in what ways are their emotional legacies felt today?

Join researchers from UWA’s ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and the Schools of Humanities and Indigenous Studies, as they discuss emotions and encounters from the early modern era to the nineteenth century. To what extent, they will ask, do emotions shape histories?