UPDATE: ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 21
Keynote Speaker: Paul Oppenheimer
GUILT: THE CULTURE OF MANIPULATION
14th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY
February 22-23, 2002
We are very pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be Paul
Oppenheimer, professor of comparative medieval literature and English at the
City College of the City University of New York and visiting professor of
German at University College, London. He's written extensively on guilt,
including his most recent book, Infinite Desire: A Guide to Modern Guilt
(published Jan. '01) which looks at the modern obsession with guilt in
philosophy, psychology, literature, and art.
CALL FOR PAPERS
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
· 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
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Shelly Auster
Shelly30ny@aol.com
Department of English
Humanities 245
SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5350
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 new deadline
for abstracts is Friday, December 21, 2001. Paper presentations should be
15-20 minutes.
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