Dear Colleagues,
Please find attached (and below) an announcement of the first Call for
Papers for Translating Myth, an international, interdisciplinary
conference organized by the Centre for Myth Studies at the University
of Essex, to be held 5-7 September, 2013, at firstsite, the home of
contemporary visual arts in Colchester, UK.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 25 January 2013.
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSLATING MYTH
Date: 5-7 September, 2013
Venue: firstsite, Colchester, UK
An international conference organized by the Centre for Myth Studies
at the University of Essex, supported by the Department of Literature,
Film, and Theatre Studies and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies.
The Centre for Myth Studies at the University of Essex is pleased to
announce an international conference to be held from 5 to 7 September
2013 at firstsite, the home of contemporary visual arts in Colchester.
We invite proposals for papers (of 20 minutes duration), or panel
sessions (three papers), exploring the theme of ?Translating Myth?.
The organisers would particularly welcome interdisciplinary
contributions, especially ones that bridge the domains of literature
and psychoanalysis, but we encourage submissions on all aspects of
myth that involve the idea of translation. ?Translating myth? is to be
taken in a broad sense as encompassing any topic that addresses the
process of conversion or transfer of cultural sources construed as
mythic. The organizers list the following keyword combinations as a
stimulus to thought, but, as it always is with myth, your own ideas
should allow the imagination free rein in deciding on the
possibilities offered by the conference theme:
Accommodation and assimilation; adaptations of the classics; anamnesis
and orality; archetypes, prototypes, stereotypes; astrology and
astronomy; babel and fable; boundaries and interfaces; chaos and
creation; enchantment and ecstasy; gender and hybridity; genre and
media; illud tempus and terra incognita; interdisciplinarity and
multiculturalism; identity and intertextuality; mask and mandala;
migration and transfer; monad, binary, triad, quaternity; mythos and
logos; omens and oracles; register and revelation; resistance and
change; rites of passage and cultural transfer; roots and rituals;
sacred and profane; stage and screen; storyteller, poet, shaman,
auteur; theories, poetics, dialectics; transformation and
transposition; versions and motifs; zero and hero(ine).
PLENARY SPEAKERS: David Hawkes (Arizona State University), Miriam
Leonard (University College London), Harish Trivedi (University of
Delhi).
deadline for proposals is Friday 25 January, 2013. Proposals should
take the form of a title for the paper and a 250-word abstract,
accompanied by a brief biographical note, including institutional
affiliation where appropriate. To submit a proposal, or for more
information, please write to Dr Leon Burnett, Department of
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, Wivenhoe
Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ or, by e-mail, to [log in to unmask]
It is planned to publish a selection of papers on ?Translating Myth?
after the conference.
Note: Thanks to the generosity of the Bean Trust, a limited number of
bursaries are available for speakers contributing to a panel session
on the place that William Blake occupies in the field of myth. If you
wish to apply for one of these bursaries, please indicate in your
proposal.
Leon Burnett (on behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee)
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Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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