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Call for Papers - Reminder. Proposals due 30 October 2012 Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture – A Two-Day Conference www.smuc.ac.uk/gothic Date: Friday 8th-Saturday 9th March 2013 Location / Hosed by: St Mary’s University College, Twickenham and Strawberry Hill House Confirmed Speakers: • Michael Snodin (The Victoria and Albert Museum) • Prof John Bowen (University of York) • Prof Avril Horner (Kingston University) • Prof Allan Simmons (St Mary's University College, London) This conference, held in the Gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill, west London, will interrogate the many and varied cultures of the Gothic that were largely set in train by the owner of this mansion, Horace Walpole, in the mid-eighteenth century. As Walpole’s projects well exemplify – an aesthetic rebellion against a classical orthodoxy, which nonetheless looked implicitly to the restoration of some former social order – Gothic’s cultural poetics have always been difficult to place politically. To what degree have Gothic tendencies in Literature, Art, Architecture and Screen Media been participants in, adjuncts to, contesters of, or alternatives to cultural and political mainstreams, and how might such relationships be assessed by historians and critics? If Gothic was the Enlightenment’s naughty, child, to what extent is its rebelliousness mental or political, and is it ultimately co-opted by the order that it appears to resist? This is a multi-disciplinary conference, and proposals for papers are invited in response to such questions in the fields, amongst others, of literature, screen media, art, architecture and popular culture. Participants will be offered the chance to see Horace Walpole’s Gothic mansion, now resplendent in its recently-renovated state, and to dine there during the conference. Preference will be given to papers that are suitable for an enthusiastic amateur audience, as well as specialists in the appropriate field. A bursary will be offered to cover conference fees for the best proposal by a postgraduate student. Call for Papers 200-word proposals for papers of 20-25 minutes, should be sent, by 30 October 2012 to: Ms Jessica Jeske St Mary’s University College Waldegrave Road Strawberry Hill London TW1 4SX E: [log in to unmask] More Information About the Conference and Strawberry Hill House Peter Howell Senior Lecturer in English St Mary’s University College Waldegrave Road Strawberry Hill London TW1 4SX E: [log in to unmask] T: +44 (0)20 82404124 Claire Leighton Community Development Officer Strawberry Hill House 268 Waldegrave Road Twickenham TW1 4ST E: [log in to unmask] T: +44 (0)20 8744 1241 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------