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On Behalf Of Maria del Pilar Blanco <br>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 5:21 PM <br>
To: cfp@english.upenn.edu <br>
Subject: CFP: Ghosts and the Academic Seance (Sweden) (10/15/05; Space,
<br>
Haunting, Discourse, 6/15/06-6/18/06) <br><br>
"Ghosts and the Academic Séance" panel <br>
Space, Haunting, Discourse conference, Karlstad University, Karlstad,
Sweden <br>
15-18 June 2006 <br><br>
What do we—as academics—believe in when we believe in ghosts? These
<br>
phenomena, which can be found in practically every aspect of popular
<br>
culture, from horror films to tabloids to reality TV shows, are often
<br>
dismissed by enlightened minds as incredible superstitions. As
academics <br>
with a genuine curiosity, we try to understand the issues of ghosts and
<br>
haunting through more “legitimate” theoretical mediums, the most popular
<br>
being psychoanalysis and the frameworks of the uncanny and the return of
the <br>
repressed. But are our readings of haunting to be always conceived
through <br>
the lens of repressed psychic desires? Can they overcome the
borders and <br>
boundaries of the individual and collective unconscious? Can the
<br>
strangeness of ghosts be something other than uncanny? What are
other ways <br>
of approaching these beings- in/of-repetition? <br><br>
If ghosts are studied in terms of the spaces they occupy, we can <br>
problematize haunting by grounding the ghost, understanding it through a
<br>
sense of place. If a ghost occupies a place, dialectical discourses
can <br>
emerge between the pasts and the presents of locations, the living and
dead <br>
landscapes. In this panel, we seek approaches that investigate
hauntings <br>
through conjugations of methodologies— intersections of historical,
literary <br>
and political discourses—to create new readings of the persistence of
ghosts <br>
in our culture. <br><br>
We also invite papers that discuss the problems surrounding the different
<br>
methodologies used to approach haunting in literature, film, and
historical <br>
narratives from different periods and national traditions. We
encourage <br>
submissions from all disciplines that challenge previously used
theoretical <br>
frameworks in search of new ways of understanding these strange and
<br>
fascinating intersections of pasts and presents. <br><br>
Abstracts should be 250-300 words in length. The deadline for
submission is <br>
October 15, 2005. Please send them to María del Pilar Blanco,
<br>
mdb227@nyu.edu. <br><br>
Conference website:
<a href="http://www.kk.kau.se/eng/conf/space/index.html">http://www.kk.kau.se/eng/conf/space/index.html</a>
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