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Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Registration is now open for the international conference on Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious to be held at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK, from 2 to 4 September 2010. Details are at the link below, where you will also find an outline schedule of events.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/lifts/events/Mythic.aspx

The full programme will be posted shortly, but I can confirm that plenary papers will include the following:

Professor Marina Warner (Essex) ‘The Figure of the Shaman: an Enlightenment Romance’

Professor Jason Whittaker (Falmouth) ‘The Divine Image: Remaking Blake’s Myths’

Professor Robert Segal (Aberdeen) ‘Myths of the Hero: Freudian and Jungian Approaches’

Professor Steven Walker (Rutgers, US) ‘Apocalypse and Scapegoats: Moving Myth into the Modern World’

We look forward to seeing you at what promises to be an immensely stimulating multidisciplinary conference.

Best wishes,

Roderick

Dr Roderick Main

Director, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies

University of Essex, CO4 3SQ, UK

+44 (0)1206 874842

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http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho