Please note that the deadline for submissions has been extended to
January 25, 2003.
Guilt: A Conference on Law & Humanities
Saturday, June 14, 2003
Westbrook College Campus (Portland, Maine)
Keynote speaker: Professor Austin Sarat, Amherst College
The Department of English at the University of New England is pleased to
announce that it is sponsoring a one-day Law & Humanities conference on
the theme of "Guilt," at our Westbrook College Campus (in Portland,
Maine) on 14 June 2003. The keynote address will be delivered by
Professor Austin Sarat, founder of the Department of Law, Jurisprudence,
and Social Thought at Amherst College and president of the Association
for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. We welcome scholars
of law and jurisprudence as well as from across the humanities.
Possible sessions might address the following topics (the list is by no
means exclusive):
Aggression
Discipline
The Liberal Subject
Race and Ethnicity
Capital Punishment
Genocide
Reparations
Truth & Reconciliation
Trauma
Culture/Civilization
Natural Law
Representation
Individual v. Collective
Confession
Psychoanalysis
Sacrifice
Reading/Writing
The Body
Sex and Gender
Space(s)
We invite all interested scholars to organize panels, submit proposals
for individual paper presentations, and/or indicate their interest in
serving as chair/discussant. There will be three sessions during the
conference, with concurrent panels; each session will be an hour and a
half long. To allow time for discussion, there will be no more than
three papers per panel and each presentation should last no longer than
twenty minutes.
All individual proposals must contain three copies of the following: a
cover sheet with your name, address, phone, fax, email, and title of
paper; a brief abstract (250-350 words); and a one-page CV. Panel
organizers should send 1) all of the above materials for each individual
proposal and 2) a brief description of the topic their panel will
address. Please make sure that proposals are complete.
If you are willing to serve as a chair/discussant, please indicate that
on your proposal. We welcome volunteers for those roles from people who
are not submitting proposals for papers. If you would like to be a
chair/discussant, please submit a one-paragraph description of your
interests/area of expertise along with with your name, address, phone,
fax, e-mail, and a one-page CV.
Please submit proposals no later than January 25, 2002 to Matthew
Anderson, Department of English, Univ. of New England, University
Campus, 11 Hills Beach Road, Biddeford, Maine, 04005-9599. Phone: (207)
283-0170 ext. 2726; Fax: (207) 294-5926. You may also submit an
electronic version of your proposal to manderson@une.edu (attachments
should be in WP for Windows or Word).
Those submitting proposals can expect to receive a response by February
15, 2003. We cannot promise that we will be able to accommodate all
proposals. Registration and hotel information will be mailed in the
spring. We look forward to hearing from you.
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