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>Call For Papers
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>Deadline 30th January 2011
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>Mastering the Emotions:
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>Control, Contagion and Chaos, 1800 to the Present Day
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>16th-17th June 2011, Queen Mary, University of London
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>What does it mean to master one’s emotions?
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>Since the modern category of ‘the emotions’ 
>emerged in the early decades of the nineteenth 
>century, much medical knowledge about and 
>scientific research into this elusive phenomenon 
>has been concerned with its potentially 
>involuntary nature, and with the ability and 
>inability of humans to exert control over their emotions.
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> From the nineteenth century’s preoccupation 
> with the nature of impulse, to our own concerns 
> about emotional literacy and regulation, the 
> problem of constricting emotions – and 
> producing them on demand – has troubled 
> psychologists, physicians, philosophers, 
> scientists, writers and artists alike.
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>Constructed as both irrational, yet within the 
>bounds of rational control, separate from, yet 
>the product of bodily processes, ‘the emotions’ 
>have historically proved a key site of medical 
>and cultural debate. At the same time, the 
>exercise of too much control has also been 
>pathologised, and both theatricalised and 
>repressed emotions have historically called into 
>question prevailing notions of 'authenticity' and emotional truth.
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>Papers are invited which explore the management, 
>control or manipulation of the emotions between 
>1800 and the present day. Possible themes might 
>include, but are not limited to:
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>-          Pathologisation (e.g. of absence and 
>excess of emotion, emotional impulses)
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>-          Regulation (e.g. medical or 
>psychological intervention, medically directed 
>self-regulation, emotions and public policy)
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>-          Manipulation and Performativity (e.g. 
>theatrical production of emotional states, malingering).
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>-          Trauma and Repression (e.g. emotion 
>and the subconscious, emotional release as 
>therapeutic, the production of emotional states through drugs and hypnosis).
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>Keynote Speaker: Allan Young, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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>Please send abstract proposals of 300 words, or 
>panel proposals (3 or 4 abstracts, and a panel 
>rationale of 300 words) by email to Tiffany 
>Watt-Smith <mailto:t.k.watt-smith at qmul.ac.uk>t.k.watt-smith at qmul.ac.uk by
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>28th January 2011. All speakers will be notified by 28th February 2011.
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