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Christian Suhr: Anthropology of and from the Heart

Lecture at the conference "Constructive Emotions: Cultivating Kindness", Dec. 6, 2025 Attending to the heart is not easy, yet it may be necessary for understanding and counteracting the tensions, indifference, and intercultural misunderstandings that characterize our contemporary world. Can we create more space for the qualities of the heart within research and teaching, scientific critique, and our engagement with the communities and environments in which we live and work? Might the bodily, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of the heart serve both as an object of inquiry and as a point of departure for research? In this talk, I introduce audiovisual, multimodal, and microphenomenological methods that can help us explore these questions by deepening our understanding of the roles of the senses, the body, and emotions in human life. I also invite participants to take part in a brief auto-elicitation exercise and present examples from ongoing research on how practitioners in Buddhist, Christian, and Muslim traditions relate to the heart and, in diverse ways, experience and cultivate love in their lives. Drawing on the exercise and these examples, I hope to engage participants in a conversation about what an anthropology of and from the heart might look like.