Workshop 15
Compassion and Empathy
(Invited Workshop)
Convenors:
Susana de Matos Viegas,
University of Coimbra and University
of Lisbon
SusanaViegas@netcabo.pt; smviegas@ci.uc.pt
Édouard Conte,
Collegium Budapest and CNRS, Berlin
conte@colbud.hu ,
conte@ethno.unibe.ch
This workshop aims to
challenge the notions of distance and
proximity, conceiving them
neither as spatial categories nor as
symbolic tools to imagine sociality,
but as dynamics of emotions
that are constitutive of
sociality. Looking at ways of connecting
distance and proximity not
through spatial metaphors, but
through intersubjectivity
is the main challenge of this workshop.
Taking lived experience as
a main temporal measure, how are
we to understand the rising
and falling of social relationships?
Different situations can be
addressed: from life crises, to
splits developed through
quarrels or divorces, fictive kinship,
fosterage or adoption, care
or intolerance vis-à-vis the disabled,
the redefinition of
political alliances or migratory phenomena.
The diverse moral
evaluations of ‘experiencing other peoples’
feelings’, i.e.
compassion and empathy as a path to sociality
could also be addressed
culturally, taking into account regional
debates in anthropology.
“Just passing by”: the
Dynamics of Closeness and Distance
Among Purhépecha
Women of Lake Pátzcuaro (Mexico)
Susana Carro-Ripalda,
University of Glasgow
S.Carro-Ripalda@socsci.gla.ac.uk
The Dynamics of Affect:
Transient Women Amongst Tupinambá
Indians (South of Bahia,
Brazil)
Susana de Matos Viegas,
University of Coimbra and University of Lisbon
Ties that Bind:
Solidarity and Cooperation
Zerrin G. Tandogan,
University of Ankara
‘Call them by the
name of their father.’ Fosterage vs. Adoption
in Arab Societies
Édouard Conte,
Collegium Budapest and University of Bern
Early Marriage in Gaza:
Dynamics, Perceptions and Sentiment
Nahda Younis Shehada,
Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands