CALL FOR PAPERS
An international interdisciplinary conference
Department of English, Swansea University, Wales, UK
Trauma and the Sublime
Wednesday 6 - Friday 8 August 2008
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Christine Battersby (Warwick)
Elisabeth Bronfen (Zurich)
Richard Humphreys (Tate Britain)
Gene Ray (independent critic)
Philip Shaw (Leicester)
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,
Swansea University, Wales, SA2 8PP, UK - before 31 March 2008.
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