Popular Preternaturaliana: Studying the Monstrous in Popular Culture

Popular Preternaturaliana was brought to life in May 2013 and serves as the official site of the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of NEPCA. We are sponsored by the Northeast Alliance for Scholarship on the Fantastic and hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture. We hope to provide a resource for further study and debate of the preternatural wherever, whenever, and however it may appear.

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

CFP Fifth quasi-Biennial Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium of New Weird Fiction and Lovecraft-Related Research (6/3/22; Providence, RI 8/19-21/22)

The Armitage Symposium

Source: http://necronomicon-providence.com/the-armitage-symposium/

The Fifth quasi-Biennial

Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium

of New Weird Fiction and Lovecraft-Related Research

NecronomiCon Providence convention in Providence, RI

19-21 August, 2022

Location: Omni Hotel, Providence

Symposium Chair: Prof. Dennis P. Quinn, Cal Poly Pomona, CA and Editor of Lovecraftian Proceedings (Hippocampus Press)
Symposium Co-Chair: Elena Tchougounova-Paulson

The 2022 CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS can be downloaded here: Armitage-Symposium-CFA-2022-2.pdf

About the Symposium:

The Lovecraft Arts and Sciences Council (the organizer of NecronomiCon Providence) hosts the Armitage Symposium to showcase academic works that explore all aspects weird fiction and art, from pop-culture to literature, including the writings and life of globally renowned weird fiction writer, H.P. Lovecraft. Topics of value include the influence of history, architecture, science, and popular culture on the weird fiction genre, as well as the impact that weird and Lovecraftian fiction has had on culture.

In past years, the Armitage Symposium has aimed to foster explorations of Lovecraft’s elaborate cosmic mythology, and how this mythology was influenced by, and has come to influence, numerous other authors and artists before and since. Additionally, we promote all works that foster a greater, critical, and nuanced understanding weird fiction and art (and related science fiction, fantasy, horror, etc.).

Selected talks will be presented together as part of the Armitage Symposium, a mini-conference within the overall convention framework of NecronomiCon Providence, August 18-21, 2022. Presenters will deliver fifteen to twenty-minute oral presentations summarizing their thesis, and are invited to submit a brief manuscript for possible inclusion in a proceedings publication.

For more information on the Armitage Symposium, or the overall convention and the themes to be explored, please visit our website: necronomicon-providence.com – where we will post updates and details as they develop over the final weeks leading to the convention. In addition to these talks, NecronomiCon Providence will feature numerous traditional panels and presentations given by many of the top names in the global weird renaissance.

The 2022 CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS can be downloaded here: Armitage-Symposium-CFA-2022-2.pdf