Society for the Study of Emotion, Affect and Space (SSEAS)
About SSEAS
SSEAS aims to stimulate interdisciplinary debate on theoretically informed research on the emotional intersections between people and places. These aims are broadly conceived to encourage investigations of feelings and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. Questions of emotion are relevant to a variety of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, including history, anthropology, race/gender/cultural studies, philosophy, sociology/social theory, English, economics, education, politics, and social psychology. Many of these traditions are represented among the membership of SSEAS, and the work of the Society transcends disciplinary boundaries.
The main activity of SSEAS members as editors, editorial board members, authors and readers is to support the Society s official journal, Emotion, Space and Society (EMOSPA), as the major publication outlet for research in this field. SSEAS also sponsors the Emotional Geographies conference series.
SSEAS Officers
Executive Council
Joyce Davidson, President (2007-2008) Liz Bondi Elspeth Probyn Mick Smith
Co-Secretaries
Laura Cameron Nichola Wood
Membership
Editors and editorial board members of EMOSPA are SSEAS members ex officio.
Increased recognition of emotion s importance was marked by the success of the first conference on Emotional Geographies (organized by Joyce Davidson, Lancaster UK, September 2002), which drew participants from a wide range of disciplines.
The Second Conference on Emotional Geographies (organized by Davidson and Laura Cameron, Queen's University, Canada, May 2006) was an even greater success than the first, generating involvement from a larger number of nations and disciplines. The level of enthusiasm among delegates was tremendous, and there is clearly a critical ground-swelling of support for and commitment to the subject.
The third conference is provisionally planned for Europe in July 2009.
