Dear all, please see below for two upcoming
conferences of potential interest - one on the 1848
revolutions in Preston, Lancs 23-25th June 2005, the
other on representations of violence in popular
culture, in Australia 30 September-1 October 2005 - in
case anyone's research expenses stretch that far...
Debbie

Violent Depictions: Representing violence in popular
culture

School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
                 Monash University
                  30 September-1 October 2005

Violent depictions: Representing Violence in Popular
Culture is an
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural symposium on the
representation of
violence in contemporary popular culture.

The subject of violence is one of the most compelling
issues in our
contemporary world.  On a daily basis we are exposed
to a seemingly
never-ending stream of violent images, which depict
both physical and
psychological violence.  Although we may be revolted
or outraged by
violent imagery, representations of violence in
popular culture, the
mass media and the plastic and performing arts
continue to fascinate
audiences and reward producers.

The Violence in Representation symposium will examine
aspects of the
cultural, social, political and personal
representation of violence in
popular culture with the intentions of interrogating
who represents
whom, for what purposes, and in what contexts.
There are a number of thematic categories such as
violence in films,
literary texts, news broadcasts, the family and urban
spaces, among
others, which cut across class, gender, sexuality, and
locality. We
welcome papers on any of these themes, in particular
that focus on
violence and popular culture from non-Anglo contexts.

Papers already accepted include women and terrorism in
Spain, family
feuds in Brazilian films, the space of violence in
Marseille, rape in
Italian women's fiction, and media representation of
violence in Bali.

Following the conference, the organisers intend to
publish selected
full-length papers in a special number of the
Transcultures, a
fully-referred international journal.

Please send a short (250 word) abstract with a title
by 2 May 2005 to
Philip Anderson ([log in to unmask])
or Brett Hough
([log in to unmask]).


For full details, including registration form, please
see our website:
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/conferences/violence/

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Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

1848: The Year the World Turned?

Department of Humanities
University of Central Lancashire, Preston
23-25th June 2005
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/humanities/1848/callpapers.htm

1848 is frequently referred to as the 'springtime of
the peoples'
or 'the year of revolutions'; yet despite the
widespread challenge
to the status quo in Europe, as the historian A. J. P.
Taylor noted
'history failed to turn'. Nevertheless, 1848 was a
pivotal year
in the political development of modern Europe and its
repercussions
spread beyond the countries immediately involved.
Moreover, the
Intellectual ferment and the social and political
discontent that had
triggered the various uprisings also found an outlet
in literature and
culture.

KEY NOTE SPEAKERS include:

Terry Eagleton (The Cultural Legacy of 1848 in Britain
and Ireland)
Brian Maidment (The Wood Engraving Revolution?
Illustration and
Democracy)
Maria Diedrich (Revolution's Second Chance: German
1848ers and the
American Civil War)
John Walton (Spain and the Revolution of 1848: the dog
that did not
bark)

This conference is interdisciplinary and will examine
the intersections
of culture, history, literature and politics during
the year of
revolutions. It will address cultural, political and
social activities
throughout Britain, Europe and America.

Papers are invited which cover any of these aspects on
1848 and it will
be divided into six interconnected areas.

Area One: Questions of Political Authority and
Justice; Ideology in
Transition

Area Two: Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Mass
Communication

Area Three: Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism

Area Four: Gender and the Woman Question

Area Five: Culture in Transition

Area Six: Region

The closing date for abstracts is 11th February 2005
Please note that paper presenters need to register for
the conference
and pay the registration fee.

For further information and to forward abstracts
please contact:
Emma Woodward, Conference Officer, Conference and
Events Management
Office,
University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 1772 892654
Fax: +44 (0) 1772 892977
Email: [log in to unmask]






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