In her book Perpetrator Disgust, Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic challenges the link between disgust and morality ascribed to perpetrators in the Second World War. At the cutting edge of moral philosophy, affect theory as well as history, she asks how cultural expectations and normative assumptions shape our understanding of emotions, and how do they inform moral and psychiatric judgments.

Her current project follows this trajectory of research, focusing on the concept of alexithymia – the inability to articulate (lexis – words) your emotions (thymos). In a different historical context, Munch-Jurisic explores further how assumptions about what emotions are and how they should be recognized and expressed are culturally and historically informed and shape heavily our judgments of ourselves and others.

The talk takes place as part of Jan Slaby’s colloquium and is open to the public upon registration.  

Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic is a philosopher specialized in the field of emotions and negative affect with a particular focus on the implications for majority-minority relations. She is currently associate professor at the Centre for Culture and the Mind, University of Copenhagen, and PI of the DFF-Sapere Aude and MSCA funded research project 'Cultured Emotions: A Conceptual History of Alexithymia' (CULTEMO).

Registration required via jandra.boettger@fu-berlin.de

Language: English