Feeling Teaching, Teaching Feeling: Affect and Pedagogy between God and Humans
Feeling Teaching, Teaching Feeling: Affect and Pedagogy between God and Humans
Oct. 4-5, 2024
University of Notre Dame
Following the tradition of the original Florovsky Symposia at Princeton University, the Florovsky Tantur Symposia at Notre Dame seek to honor the legacy of the Orthodox theologian, Fr. Georges Florovsky, by providing a forum wherein adherents of different Christian traditions can explore core theological themes with reference to the shared theological witness of the first millennium.
The 2024 symposium—titled "Teaching Feeling, Feeling Teaching: Affect and Pedagogy Between God and Humans"—took up questions of affect and emotion as they arise in theological study. Theology has often been conceived, at least in its academic forms, as an exercise in the transmission of content. Yet, in the humanities broadly there has been in recent decades a turn to the crucially productive role of affect and emotion in learning. This symposium seeks to engage these questions of affect and learning in the history of theology.
The 2024 Florovsky Symposium featured keynote lectures by Natalie Carnes, Andrew Davis, Sarah Gador-Whyte, Dawn LaValle Norman, Michael Magree, SJ, and Jeff Wickes. These were joined to panels featuring 20-minute, conference-style papers by graduate students.
Sponsored by Tantur Ecumenical Institute & Notre Dame's Department of Theology