Call for Papers

The International Gothic Association announces its upcoming conference

Gothic          Gothic
Spirits          Flesh



August 14-17, 1999
sponsored by Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, Nova Scotia

“The soul,” says Foucault, “is the effect and instrument of a political
anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.”  This conference will
consider that especial convergence of souls and bodies: the Gothic.
Papers or sessions should address any topic dealing with the
relationship in Gothic culture between the spiritual and the corporeal,
their connections, their frictions, their contradictions.  We encourage
papers from any methodological perspective (including the
interdisciplinary), from all historical periods, and from all fields of
cultural production: literature, film, visual arts, architecture, music,
and performance.  We also welcome sessions that transgress the usual
talking-head format: panel discussions, round-tables, electronic
conferences, etc.  Some possible paper or session topics may include:

The Gothic Construction of Catholicism/The Catholic Construction of the
Gothic ? Making Suffering Public ? Uncanny Bodies ? Female Spirits,
Men’s Bodies/Men’s Spirits, Female Bodies ? Liquor Licenses: Alcohol and
the Gothic ?  The Soul of de Sade ?  Animated Corpses ? Dead Fathers,
Dead Mothers ? Photographing the Dead ? The Technology of Soul-Making ?
Saints and/as Sinners ?  Queer Spirits, Queer Flesh ? The Relic and the
Fetish ?  Gothic Ethics ?  Flesh and Meat ? The Gothic and Children’s
Bodies ? Classical Spirits in New-World Bodies ? The Spirit of Gothic
Camp ? Fat Gothic, Thin Gothic ? The Gothic Body in Psychoanalysis ? The
Gothic as Performance ?  Striking Bodies ?  The Gothic Gaze


Proposals of two pages will be considered, but full papers with an
abstract are preferred.  Deadline for submission: 1 March 1999.  Send
papers or proposals by mail  to Steven Bruhm or Peter Schwenger,Mount
Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 2J6, or
electronically to <[log in to unmask]> or <[log in to unmask]>

Keynote Speakers for the Conference: Fred Botting (Lancaster), Glennis
Stephenson Byron (Stirling), Maggie Kilgour (McGill), James Kincaid
(University of Southern California), Michelle Masse (Louisana State
University), Robert Miles (Sheffield-Hallam)

This conference will dovetail with “Romanticism and the New,” the 1999
Meeting of NASSR to be held August 12-15 1999 at the University of
King’s College, Halifax.  Those who register for both conferences will
pay a reduced fee (yet to be determined).





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