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CALL FOR
PAPERS
An international interdisciplinary conference
Department of
English,
Trauma and the Sublime
Wednesday 6 - Friday 8 August 2008
PLENARY
SPEAKERS
Christine
Battersby (
Elisabeth
Bronfen (
Richard
Humphreys (Tate
Gene Ray
(independent critic)
Philip Shaw (
In recent
decades, trauma studies and the category of the sublime have engaged theorists
and practitioners across a range of cultural disciplines and activities, informing
work on the postmodern, historical memory and testimony, the avant-garde, and
theories of representation and ideology. This international, interdisciplinary
conference aims to explore the impact of present and past versions of trauma
and the sublime, and to consider the extent to which these terms might inhabit
each other. Papers are invited in any area of trauma studies and theories and
practices of the sublime, particularly contributions that consider the
connections or interactions between trauma and sublimity. The conference
welcomes proposals from the disciplines of literature, philosophy, history and
art history, politics, psychoanalysis, film, music, theology, science, medicine
and any other field where the themes of the conference take on meaning.
TOPICS MAY
INCLUDE
abjection gender race
apocalypse genocide sexuality
colonialism the
gothic slavery
consumption history suttee
cultural memory language temporality
desire literature terror
divinity martyrdom testimony
ecology materiality visual
presentation
ethics the
occult war
200-word
proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to the conference organisers, Dr
Steve Vine and Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke, at [log in to unmask] - or
by post to Department of English,
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