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Call For Papers<br>
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<div align="center"><b>Deadline 30<sup>th </sup>January 2011<br>
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<div align="center"><b>Mastering the Emotions: <br>
</b></div>
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<div align="center"><b>Control, Contagion and Chaos, 1800 to the Present
Day<br>
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<br>
<div align="center"><b>16<sup>th</sup>-17<sup>th</sup> June 2011, Queen
Mary, University of London<br>
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What does it mean to master one’s emotions? <br><br>
<br><br>
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. <br><br>
<br><br>
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. <br><br>
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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.<br><br>
<br><br>
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:<br><br>
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<b>Pathologisation</b> (e.g. of absence and excess of emotion, emotional
impulses)<br><br>
<br><br>
- <b>Regulation</b>
(e.g. medical or psychological intervention, medically directed
self-regulation, emotions and public policy) <br><br>
<br><br>
- <b>Manipulation
and Performativity</b> (e.g. theatrical production of emotional states,
malingering).<br><br>
<br><br>
- <b>Trauma and
Repression</b> (e.g. emotion and the subconscious, emotional release as
therapeutic, the production of emotional states through drugs and
hypnosis).<br><br>
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<div align="center"><b>Keynote Speaker: Allan Young, McGill University,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada<br>
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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
<a href="mailto:t.k.watt-smith@qmul.ac.uk">t.k.watt-smith@qmul.ac.uk</a>
by <br><br>
<b>28<sup>th </sup>January 2011.</b> All speakers will be notified by
28<sup>th </sup>February 2011. <br>
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