-‘Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature and the Environment’ – 8^th December Deadline approaching for paper proposals

One Day Symposium hosted by Falmouth University and the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Ronald Hutton (Bristol University)

On March 8^th 2014 Falmouth University and ASLE UKI will be holding a one day symposium at Falmouth on the subject of ‘haunted landscapes’. From places and spaces haunted by spectres, memory or history to conceptions of landscape as palimpsest, holy wells and ancient sites, literature, art and film have always explored concepts of the supernatural and the landscape and environment. Landscapes can be haunted by echoes and memories of colonization, violence done and irrevocable acts committed. Places may be marked indelibly by the past and by the people who populated and shaped the environment in many different ways. Layers of memory and action can be embedded in the landscape alongside the layering of history in stone. Encounters with the landscape reverberate through the ages and through the rocks, trees, hills and streams that are still present today. Ghosts can shade the atmosphere of a place and some things never leave. The environment bears witness to the super-natural and that which seems paranormal may eventually become a natural part of the environment.

Papers and panel proposals examining any aspect of the super-natural and the environment are welcomed from all disciplines. Subjects can include (but are not bound by):

Ghosts and the landscape

Films of the haunted Landscape

The haunted landscapes of television

Haunted industrial landscapes

Dark tourism and the landscape

Haunted landscapes of video games

The Weird and the land

The idea of ‘super’ in the super-natural

 Landscape and memory

Landscape as palimpsest

Haunted places

The landscape and the Uncanny

Nature and haunting

Animals, super-nature and the environment

Death, life and rebirth and the environment

Abstracts of 300-500 for 20 minute papers or proposals (with abstracts) for three paper panels are to be submitted by December 8^th to: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]. We are also happy to answer any questions.

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