CALL FOR PAPERS
for
GUILT: THE CULTURE OF MANIPULATION
14th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
SUNY Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY)
February 22-23, 2002
DESCRIPTION
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. Possible paper topics may include, but are
not limited to:
· Collective and/or national guilt
· Familial 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
· Shame
· Artistic, academic, or professional guilt
· The half-life (or legacy) of guilt
· Guilty sex
· Guilt and the body
· The science of guilt
· Good guilt?
· Betrayal
· The guilt of globalization
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Conference abstracts should be between 250-400 words and sent as e-mail texts
or as Microsoft Word attachments to: shelly30ny@aol.com.
The deadline for abstracts is Friday, November 16, 2001.
CONTACT
Shelly Auster (shelly30ny@aol.com)
SUNY Stony Brook
English Department
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5350
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