Samantha Dieckmann, 'Restaging Fear: Affective Translation through Intercommunity Performing Arts'

Samantha Dieckmann is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Melbourne. Working with Jane Davidson and Multicultural Arts Victoria, Samantha's research explores the deployment of music for conciliation as it relates to personal, religious and political areas of conflict, and emotional community and empathy as resolution. This paper, ‘Restaging Fear: Affective Translation through Intercommunity Performing Arts’ was delivered at the ‘First International Conference on Contemporary and Historical Approaches to Emotions’ at the University of Wollongong on 5 December 2016. It considers Intercultural and interfaith performing arts practices as spaces that facilitate the galvanisation of emotions, and suggests that music and spoken word can be used to construct affective states and activate change.