The tandem cooperations are supplemented by working groups addressing specific aspects of the work on theories and methods. Their composition will follow a bottom-up logic and consist of a subproject’s principal investigators (PI) and junior researchers in the CRC. Their work is based on specific theoretical concepts and/or methodological techniques or challenges. On the one side, these groups should profit decisively from each of the tandem cooperations. On the other side, the former should also inform the latter.

Current Working Groups:

• Affect and Blackness
• Affect and Discourse
• Affective and Emotional Dynamics of Care
• Critique, Institution, Affect
• Ecology and Affect

Completed Working Groups:

• (P)Reenactment
• Affect, Emotion and the Political
• Affective Economies and Audiovisual Media
• Affective Relationality
• Audience Emotions
• Belonging
• Emotion Repertoires
• Gender and Affect
• 'Religious Feelings' vs. Secular Affects/Emotions