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Guilt: A Conference on Law and Humanities
Saturday, June 14, 2003
Westbrook College Campus (Portland, Maine)
Schedule and Program

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 and 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 and 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 December 15, 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 extension 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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