How Affect and Language Arouse the Public

International Conference on Affect, Language, and Public Spheres from April 27 to 29, 2017. ' 090/2017 from Apr 24, 2017 How are affect and language related? And how do they change communication in different spheres of the public? Attendees at an international conference will address these issues April 27 - 29, 2017, at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and in the Harnack Haus of the Max Planck Society. Scholars from different disciplines deal with the emergence of numerous public spheres through digitization and globalization and examine how emotions and affect influence this change. The conference is public, and admission is free. Advance registration is requested by email: office [at] sfb1171 (p) de. "Public spheres are spaces that determine social coexistence and the feelings of belonging and foreignness," says Anne Fleig, a literary scholar at Freie Universität and co-organizer of the conference along with Christian von Scheve, a sociologist at Freie Universität. Social cohesion and exclusion are apparent in these spaces.