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Guilt: The Culture of Manipulation, the 14th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference of SUNY Stony Brook
| Location: | New York, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2001-11-30 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2001-10-24 |
| Announcement ID: |
128834 |
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Attention all graduate students in history, literary studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, and all related disciplines: we seek paper proposals related to the theme of guilt. The emotional state of guilt constitutes a significant part of our culture. Robert Lynd describes culture as "all the things that a group of people inhabiting a common geographical area do, the ways they do things, their material tools and their values and symbols." In this sense, culture can serve as either a vehicle for insight and liberation or as a means of collective control. Guilt - a sense of culpability - is a feeling associated with breeches of conduct and would therefore seem to fulfill the latter role of culture. But is this formulation of guilt too simplistic? Has the time come to reexamine the role of guilt in social and cultural settings? We seek papers exploring these themes. Topics may include but are certainly not limited to:
- Collective and/or national guilt
- Religious guilt
- Guilty pleasures (decadence, excess, and indulgence)
- Innocence and guilt - the possibilities of justice
- Physiological and psychological manifestations of guilt
- Regret, remorse, and restitution
- Gendering of guilt
- Colonial and post-colonial guilt
- Racial guilt
- Artistic, academic, or professional guilt
- Guilty sex
- Guilt and the body
- The science of guilt
- Good guilt?
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Conference abstracts should be between 250-400 words and sent as e-mail texts or as Microsoft word attachments to the email address below. The deadline for abstracts is November 30, 2001.
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Shelly Auster
Department of English
Humanities 245
SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5350
Email: shelly30ny@aol.com
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