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L'Université Queen Mary de Londres lance un appel à communications pour un colloque qui aura lieu les 16 et 17 juin 2011 à Londres. La date limite d'envoi des propositions de communication est fixée au 14 février 2011..Argumentaire :What does it mean to  master one’s emotions?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.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.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.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:Pathologisation (e.g. of absence and excess of emotion, emotional impulses)Regulation (e.g. medical or psychological intervention, medically directed self-regulation, emotions and public policy)Manipulation and Performativity (e.g. theatrical production of emotional states, malingering).Trauma and Repression (e.g. emotion and the subconscious, emotional release  as therapeutic, the production of emotional states through drugs and  hypnosis)..Invités d'honneur : Allan  Young, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Sally Shuttleworth, St Anne’s College, Oxford University, UK.Modalités de participation : 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 by 14th February 2011. All speakers will be notified by 28th February 2011.We hope to offer a  small number of bursaries for international and UK postgraduate delegates, covering registration, travel, and accommodation. Students who wish to apply for bursaries should contact Tiffany  Watt-Smith for more information.. Lien vers le Centre for the History of the Emotions de l'Université Queen Mary de Londres..