CFP Regional Gothic Collection (12/1/2014)

CFP: Regional Gothic(12/1/2014)
posted by MARY BETH HARRIS on JUL 03, 2014
CFP Edited Collection
Regional Gothic
Edited by William Hughes and Ruth Heholt
Abstracts Due: December 1, 2014
Essays Due: September 2015
Source: http://navsa.org/2014/07/03/cfp-regional-gothic1212014/

With the referendum for Scottish Independence scheduled for September 2014 and the Cornish having recently been granted minority status, questions about the dis-unity of the “United” Kingdom are prominent in the contemporary debate regarding nationalism and regional identity. Regional Gothic will explore these fractures and the darker imaginings that come from the regions of Britain.

The British regions, “imagined communities” with fragile and threatened identities and boundaries, carry their own dark sides and repressions. The Gothic preoccupation with borders, invasion, contamination and degeneration imbricates quite naturally with the different and shifting meanings that arise from writings from – and about – the scattered margins of British identity. Locality affects the Gothic and Regional Gothic seeks to explore these specificities. Gothic fictions of the regions may originate from within those territories or be imagined from elsewhere. Yet, whether coming from the inside or the outside, conceptions of the regional can powerfully inform ideas of identity and belonging. And, as Ian Duncan has pointed out, whilst this may sometimes be a positive thing, regionalism can also “register a wholesale disintegration of the categories of home, origin, community, belonging”.

The editors are seeking abstracts for chapters that address the concept of regions and the Gothic. Submissions are welcomed that address the historic specificities of regional difference and Gothic traditions, as well as inter-disciplinary studies and contemporary imaginings of the regions and the Gothic. Topics may include (but are not bound by):

• Welsh/Scottish/Irish Gothic
• Nationalism
• Cornish or Northern Gothic
• Peripheralism
• Gothic of the Islands
• Dark Tourism
• Queer identities in the regions
• Urban Gothic
• Ethnicity and the regions
• Village Gothic
• Gender and regionalism
• Suburban Gothic

Please send 300 word abstracts by December 1, 2014 to William Hughes and Ruth Heholt:w.hughes@bathspa.ac.uk and ruth.heholt@falmouth.ac.uk .Completed essays of approximately 6000 words will be required by September 2015.

CFP Rethinking the Anglo-Indian Gothic (9/30/14; NeMLA Toronto 4/30-5/3/15)

NeMLA 2015: Rethinking the Anglo-Indian Gothic (30 September 2014)
full name / name of organization:
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email:
me.makala@gmail.com
Source: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/57118

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
46th Annual Convention
April 30-May 3, 2015
Toronto, Ontario
Host: Ryerson University
Hotel: The Fairmont Royal York

Session Title:
Spectral Uprisings as Imperialist Critique: Rethinking the Anglo-Indian Gothic

Session Chair:
Melissa Edmundson Makala

Session Description:
This panel invites submissions that examine and reevaluate the supernatural literature that arose out of the British Raj. Exploring this area allows us to ask larger questions, such as: What is the place of Anglo-Indian Gothic within the broader genre of Imperial Gothic? Can postcolonial theory be used to interpret the colonial Indian Gothic? How is ghostly activity a form of native rebellion that reflects very real fears behind these fictional tales? How were writers influenced by the work of Kipling and why has his work dominated the genre for so long? What literary influence have Anglo-Indian women had on this genre?

In particular, this panel aims to explore how the Anglo-Indian Gothic was an important cultural statement on the anxieties that existed between the British colonizers and their native Indian subjects. The genre thus provides an alternative way of looking at the negative effects of imperialism and provides a place for subversive social commentaries disguised within an entertaining Gothic tale. Anglo-Indian Gothic writers offer glimpses into the British imperial world of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their ghost stories offer additional insight for modern-day readers about the impact the British colonial presence had on the countries and peoples under the dominion of the Empire at its heights.

Suggested topics for this panel include: ghosts, second sight, madness, disease, violence/crime, dead/undead bodies, cultural anxiety, revenge, colonial children, the occult, reincarnation, curses, haunted dwellings, Gothic representations of the Indian Uprising, the Gothic landscape, Indian writers, reappraisals of Kipling, Anglo-Indian women writers, gender issues, and publication histories of Anglo-Indian Gothic works.

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014

This year, NeMLA is switching to a user-based system to accept and track abstract submissions. In order to submit an abstract using the button for a CFP entry, you must sign up with NeMLA and log in. Using this new system, you can manage your personal information and review and update your abstract following submission. Signing up is free, and you only have to do it once. Interested participants can access the session information and submit abstracts by clicking on the following link:

https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15256

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

Please direct enquiries to Dr Melissa Makala: me.makala@gmail.com.


By web submission at 06/05/2014 - 18:15

CFP Gothic Migrations (5/31/15; Vancouver 7/28-8/1/15)

INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC ASSOCIATION BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, 2015 
GOTHIC MIGRATIONS 
July 28th to August 1st 2015 Vancouver, BC
full name / name of organization:
INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC ASSOCIATION
contact email:
whatley@sfu.ca
Source: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/57669
More information at: http://www.sfu.ca/iga2015

GOTHIC MIGRATIONS

“Gothic Migrations” will concern the origins, transits, and transformations of global gothic in its various modes and cultural manifestations.

Since its inception, Gothic has been associated with mobility. The gothic has always involved translation, adaptation, travel, diaspora, migration and their variations in the lost son or daughter, the absent father, the escaped slave or criminal, the disappeared family member, the alien, underground networks, cross border movements of cults, banditti, terrorist and other conspiratorial webs. These themes have engaged gothic works and their criticism for some time and their significance is growing in a new global economy of the gothic. As a result, the areas of gothic study have become increasingly wide ranging and now contest any singular root and any singular route of such migration. Under the theme of roots we consider the patterns of place and stability, cultural centres, home, mother or father country, belonging, neighbourhood, any ancient locus, developed systems of privilege and aristocracy, or stable gender, sexual norm, or class patterns. We also include under roots, their underlying negations in the unheimlich, the underprivileged, the criminal, the decentred, the escaped, the alien, the other, rejected sexualities, or the hybrid. Under the theme of migrations, we consider the diasporic energies of the gothic, the migratory traces of vampires, wanderers, ghosts, demons, revenants, zombies, soucouyants, other supernatural tourists, phantasmal terrorists and gothic escapees of all kinds. The conference will thus focus on the international circulation of literary, filmic, dramatic and digital Gothic, and the establishment of new and old Gothic traditions across the globe that are in search of, or have found, new homes.

Please include your contact information, institutional affiliation and a brief biography with your abstract submission at the following website:

http://www.sfu.ca/iga2015

SUGGESTED PAPERS AND PANELS

Papers and panels could consider, but are by no means limited to the following headings:

• How does the Gothic migrate?
• How might we speak of a global Gothic when one considers the logistics of time and travel?
• Generic routes/roots of the Gothic: novel to play, poetry to novel, novel to digitial game, novel to film, etc
• Gothic Time and Time-travel
• Trans-continental routes of the Gothic
• Migratory routes of vampires, zombies, and Gothic wanderers more generally
• The worldy unheimlich
• Routes with no destination
• Circuits of gothic exchange
• Invasive Gothic
• Reverse Colonisations
• Supernatural Currencies
• Home and Away
• Gothic Cultural Machines
• Global Gothic Crime
• Tropical Gothic/Temperate Gothic
• World Literary Gothic
• Drugs, Machines, and Global Vampires
• Gothic tourism
• Lines of flight
• Gothic Cultural Trauma
• Networked Gothic and digital diasporas
• Gothic maps and itineraries
• Global Gothic, nationalism and cultural imperialism
• Local to glocal Gothics
• Gothic Wars

By web submission at 07/18/2014 - 22:40

CFP Monstrous Women in the Middle Ages (9/1/14; Texas 10/3-4/14)

TEMA Conference panel: Monstrous Women in the Middle Ages (Oct 3-4, 2014)
full name / name of organization:
MEARCSTAPA
contact email:
andrea.nichols@huskers.unl.edu
Source: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/57184


In Nomadic Subjects (1994), Rosi Braidotti wrote: “Woman, as sign of difference, is monstrous.” In the medieval world, a similar notion was explored in multiple medieval cultures by works—visual, verbal, and performative—that assert the exceptionality of female bodies, communities, and practices against a male norm. In line with this year’s Texas Medieval Association (TEMA) theme “Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Relevance," MEARCSTAPA invites papers that focus upon the instances in which women are presented as either literal or figurative monsters, as found in images or texts from medieval Europe and contiguous cultures in Africa and Asia. We seek to explore, in particular, how the conjunction of gender and monstrosity introduced issues of sexualization, exoticism, or vilification revealing of larger societal anxieties. By bringing together cases from multiple disciplines, time frames, and geographies, this panel aims to provide a more global view of monstrous women and the issues that surround them.

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, with a brief bio, to andrea.nichols@huskers.unl.edu by September 1, 2014.

For more information on TEMA, see http://www.texasmedieval.org/
For more information on MEARCSTAPA, see http://www.mearcstapa.org/wp/


By web submission at 06/10/2014 - 21:09

CFP Eye of the Dragon: Viewing a Medieval Iconography from the Other Side (9/15/14; Kalamazoo 5/14-17/15)

CFP: The Eye of the Dragon: Viewing a Medieval Iconography from the Other Side
Location: Michigan, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2014-09-15
Date Submitted: 2014-07-20
Announcement ID: 215191

This is a CFP for the panel "The Eye of the Dragon: Viewng a Medieval Iconography from the Other Side" at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 14-17, 2015.

From the iconic heroism of Saint George to the resolute piety of Margret of Antioch; from the arrow-shooting Bahram Gur to anonymous spear-wielding riders, slayers of dragons  have received considerable art historical attention.  Individual slayers, as well as the iconography itself have been extensively studied and critically contextualized to reveal multi-layered meanings and changing identities.  In his study on the Islamic Rider of the Gerona Beatus, O. K. Werckmeister demonstrated how, in the context of the Reconquista, the identity of the slayer could switch from good to evil, while Oya Pancaroglu argued that in Medieval Anatolia slayer images were both products and facilitators of cross-cultural exchange.  Dragons and other monsters have been under the lens of art historians, too.  Michael Camille and Debra Strickland have emphasized their roles as surrogates for social types and political adversaries.   In that sense, the victims of the slayers, though independent of the iconography, have also been studied.  However, it is difficult to say that the perspectives of the victims have received equal attention.

This panel calls for papers that will look at the slayer iconography from the position of the slain rather than the slayer.  It seeks papers that will approach the image visually and conceptually from bottom up and explore alternative and innovative interpretations.  What can this switch of gaze reveal about the relationship between the dragon and the slayer? In what novel ways can we interpret the visual asymmetry between them?  Would it correspond to actual social asymmetries, or to their subversion? Does the diagonal of the spear pin down and stabilize differences and antagonisms, or does it cut across and mediate between them?  Especially welcome are papers that move beyond Western European examples and provide comparative perspectives.

Deadline for the submission of abstracts is September 15, 2014.

Saygin Salgirli, Sabanci University: salgirli@sabanciuniv.edu

Saygin Salgirli,
Sabanci University
Orta Mahalle,Tuzla 34956,Istanbul, Turkey

Email: salgirli@sabanciuniv.edu

CFP Dracula in Popular Culture Panel (8/15/14; Norton MA 11/21-22/14)

CFP Dracula in Popular Culture Panel

I'm trying to organize a panel on Dracula in popular culture for the 2014 New England Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. The conference meets from 21-22 November 2014 at Wheaton College. Further details at http://acisweb.org/announcement/cfp-acis-new-england-regional-nov-21-22-wheaton-college/.

Please email me, ASAP (but no later than 8/15/14), at NEPCAFantastic@gmail.com if are interested using "Dracula Panel" as your subject.

Michael Torregrossa
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair
Northeast Popular Culture/America Culture Association