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From: Brown, Sarah [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 April 2009 13:56
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Subject: call for papers
'Reinventing the Renaissance Occult in Modern and Post-modern Culture'
Anglia Ruskin University, UK 14 November 2009 Deadline for proposal 31
May
2009
Over the last hundred years many creative writers, critics, thinkers and
artists - for example Peter Ackroyd, Derek Jarman, Carl Jung and Marina
Warner - have turned to the magicians and alchemists of the Renaissance
period for inspiration. Some have been drawn to the intriguing
remoteness of
such figures from our own more scientific and sceptical age. Others, by
contrast, have sought to discover unexpected points of contact between
the
mysteries of the occult and more modern mysteries, such as quantum
science.
The lure of the occult today may partly be explained by a growing
dissatisfaction with Enlightenment rationalism and its perceived failure
to
address fundamental human concerns.
This conference, which will take place on Saturday 14 November 2009 at
Anglia
Ruskin University, will explore these more recent aspects of the
afterlife of
the Renaissance Occult. We welcome brief proposals for 30 minute
papers
from creative writers and scholars in any relevant field. Keynote
speakers
will include Professor Gyorgy Szonyi, a Leverhulme Visiting Professor
from
the University of Szeged, Dr Ewan Fernie (Royal Holloway) and Professor
Marina Warner (Essex). Please send your abstract to
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by 31.5.09.
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Professor Sarah Annes Brown
Anglia Ruskin University
East Road
Cambridge
CB1 1PT
0845 196 2722
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