{"id":9497,"date":"2023-06-16T11:46:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T11:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2023-06-21T16:59:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T16:59:13","slug":"erc-book-launch-conversations-on-empathy-interdisciplinary-perspectives-on-imagination-and-radical-othering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/06\/16\/erc-book-launch-conversations-on-empathy-interdisciplinary-perspectives-on-imagination-and-radical-othering\/","title":{"rendered":"CER book launch: Conversations on Empathy, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering"},"content":{"rendered":"

The concept of empathy has been emerging as a hot topic in both academia and the public sphere. Contemporary works in cognitive and neurosciences, developmental and evolutionary psychology, and animal ethology have shown how empathy is critical for the development of sociality in humans and nonhumans.<\/p>\n

Empathy has also received theoretical attention in anthropology, cultural studies and philosophy as a key capacity for constituting one\u2019s sense of self and others. Despite this attention, empathy has rarely been addressed in an interdisciplinary way, and even less so in relation to the concept of radical otherness.<\/p>\n

On June 7 The Ethnographic Research Centre<\/a>\u00a0hosted a Book Launch to celebrating the launch of, Conversations on Empathy Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> edited By\u00a0Francesca Mezzenzana<\/a> and\u00a0Dr Daniela Peluso<\/a> (SAC) selected by Routledge as an Open Access Volume.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Book serves as a model for successful collaboration across Divisions by a team of cross-disciplinary academics (SAC, Psychology, School of the Arts, Sociology and Tizard) which stemmed from a successful in-house workshop<\/a>.’ co-editor Peluso explained ‘We hope that this book launch will serve as an inspiration for future collaborations that will result in Research Excellence.\u2019<\/p>\n

Zerrin Ozlem Biner<\/a> (CoDirector of Ethnographic Research Center, SAC) -welcomed everyone, Daniela Peluso (SAC) spoke on \u2018Why Empathy?\u2019 and Murray Smith (School of the Arts) talked about \u2018Empathy Redux\u2019, Heather Ferguson (Psychology) presented The \u2018Empathy Lab\u2019 \u2013 A Psychological Exploration, whilst Carolyn Pedwall (Sociology) focussed on ‘Empathy\u2019s Entanglements’. All this, followed by a prosecco toast!<\/p>\n

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Among the contributors, the University of Kent authors include Margrethe Bruun Vaage<\/a>,\u00a0 Heather Ferguson<\/a>, Nathan Keates<\/a>, Damian Milton<\/a>, Carolyn Pedwell<\/a>, Daniela Peluso<\/a>, Murray Smith<\/a>, Krysia Emily Waldock<\/a>, and two former Kent colleagues Francesca Mezzenzana<\/a> and Lena Wimmer<\/a>. Other contributors are Becca Franks<\/a>, Monica Gagliano<\/a>, Robin Truth Goodman<\/a>,\u00a0 Douglas Hollan<\/a>, Jacqueline M. Kory-Westlund<\/a>, Esra \u00d6zy\u00fcrek, <\/a>\u00a0Valentyna Pavlenko<\/a>, Vasudevi Reddy<\/a>, Jason Throop<\/a>, Barbara Smuts<\/a>, Catherine Wanner<\/a>, and Christine Webb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Conversations on Empathy Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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