Haunted Modernities
This conference explores haunted modernities and spectral futures of all sorts. Looking back to the past as a haunted space and forward to the ‘spectres’ of the future, we want ‘Haunted Modernities’ to be indicative of wide open spaces and fruitful intersections in scholarship and practice. Whether work is hyper-local, global, or interstellar we welcome imaginative, creative, ethical, and diverse discussions from all disciplines and subject areas. As well as traditional papers, creative practice work is also invited in whatever form - written, film, audio, performance, exhibitions etc.
Hosted by Falmouth University, and co-sponsored by Northeastern University, the Haunted Modernities conference will be held in Cornwall on the Falmouth Campus, which is set in lush tropical gardens a few minutes’ walk from its picturesque town and beaches.
Following on from our other international conferences which included Folk Horror in the Twenty-First Century and Haunted Landscapes I & II, please come and join us for this latest conference for the annual conference of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (DESA).
Keywords/Possible Topics include (but are not bound by):
AI (affects and effects)
Architecture
Art
Comics
Climate Disaster
Consciousness
Crip Pasts/Futures
Cyber Spirituality
Data
Fugitivity
Futurism
Film
Games
Gender (of all and any sorts)
Gentrification
Ghosts
Heritage
Hauntology
Hyperconnection
Home/shelter/house/development
Infrastructure
Literature
Lots, allotments
Machines
Magic
Manifestos
Maps
Micro landscapes
Migration
Mobility/Stasis
Neuroscience
Nostalgia
(Post)colonial, (Post)apartheid
Queer geographies
Racial Capitalism
Reverberations and Echoes
Slippage
The Subterranean
Space - the interstellar
Traces
Trauma
Translocal, Transurban, Transnational
The Uncanny
Urban geographies
Vacancy/Vagrancy
The Weird
Work
Please send 250 word abstracts and a short bio (and any questions) to:
DESA@falmouth.ac.uk and, k.saxton@northeastern.edu
Deadline: March 17 2025
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