Vom 16.- 18. März 2020 findet in Göttingen die erste Tagung zum Thema „Digital History“ statt, die von der AG Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft im VHD ausgerichtet wird. Im Organisationskomitee sind Karoline Döring (München), Stefan Haas (Göttingen), Mareike König (Paris), Jörg Wettlaufer (Göttingen). Eine Tagungswebseite ist im Aufbau. Den CfP gibt es unter diesem Link:
This ongoing project is exploring the social use of the affect shame in a historical and evolutionary perspective. Shaming and humiliating rituals in penal law and folklore have been applied in higher and lower justice over a period of more than 600 years in European history. The adaptive advantages of shame have been discussed recently with reference to ethnographic evidence and game theory. Although shame is deeply rooted in submissive behaviour, it seems to be a relatively new adaptation in primates and is said to be one of the few distinctive features of man from higher apes. In this ongoing study, I use material from historical late medieval and early modern Western and East-Asian societies for a cross-cultural comparison of the prosocial function of shame and shaming rituals in traditional societies.
Duration: 2004 – ?