[ecrea] Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil

>Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of
>Enduring Evil
>
>Monday 22nd September - Thursday 25th September 2008
>Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
>
>Call for Papers
>This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
>conference seeks to investigate and explore the
>enduring influence and imagery of monsters
>and the monstrous on human culture throughout
>history. In particular, the project will have a
>dual focus with the intention of examining
>specific 'monsters' as well as assessing the role,
>function and consequences of persons, actions or
>events identified as 'monstrous'. The history and
>contemporary cultural influences of monsters and
>monstrous metaphors will also be examined.
>
>Perspectives are sought from those engaged in the
>fields of literature, media studies, cultural
>studies, history, anthropology, philosophy,
>psychology, sociology, health and theology. Ideas
>are welcomed from those involved in academic
>study, fictional explorations, and applied areas
>(e.g. youth work, criminology and medicine).
>
>Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops
>are invited on issues related to any of the
>following themes:
>
>* The monster through history
>* Civilization, monsters and the monstrous
>* Children, childhood, stories and monsters;
>monsters and parents
>* Comedy: funny monsters and/or making fun of
>monsters (e.g. Monsters Inc, the Addams Family)
>* Making monsters; monstrous births
>* Mutants and mutations
>* Technologies of the monstrous
>* Horror, fear and scare
>* Do monsters kill because they are monstrous or
>are they monstrous because they kill?
>* How critical to the definition of monster is
>death or the threat of death?
>* Human 'monsters' and 'monstrous' acts? e.g,
>perverts, paedophiles and serial killers
>* The monstrous and gender
>* Revolution and monsters; the monstrous and
>politics; enemies (political/social/military) and
>monsters
>* Iconography of the monstrous
>* The popularity of the modern monsters; the
>Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein, Vampires
>* The monster in literature
>* The monstrous in popular culture: film,
>television, theatre, radio, print, internet. The
>monstrous and journalism
>* Religious depictions of the monstrous; the
>monstrous and the supernatural
>* Metaphors and the monstrous
>* The monstrous and war, war reportage/propaganda
>* Monsters, the monstrous and the internet;
>monstrous virtualities
>* Monsters, gaming and on-line communities
>
>Papers will be accepted which deal solely with
>specific monsters. We also welcome proposals for
>pre-formed panels which specifically explore
>the themes of hybridity or themes of monstrous
>parents and families. In addition, papers which
>examine the theme of hope in relations to
>monsters (for joint sessions with the Hope project
>running at the same time) are welcome.
>
>Papers will be considered on any related theme.
>300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
>9th May 2008. If an abstract is accepted
>for the conference, a full draft paper should be
>submitted by Friday 8th August 2008.
>
>300 word abstracts should be submitted to both
>Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
>WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this
>order: author(s), affiliation, email address,
>title of abstract, body of abstract.
>
>Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
>from using any special formatting, characters or
>emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We
>acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
>proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
>from us in a week you should assume we did not
>receive your proposal; it might be lost in
>cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
>alternative electronic route or resend.
>
>Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
>Project Co-Leader
>School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
>E-mail: (iheartvampires /at/ gmail.com)
>
>Rob Fisher
>Network Founder & Leader Inter-Disciplinary.Net
>Freeland, Oxfordshire
>United Kingdom
>E-mail: (m6 /at/ inter-disciplinary.net)
>
>Stephen Morris
>Project Co-Leader
>Independent Scholar
>New York, USA
>E-mail: (smmorris58 /at/ yahoo.com)
>
>The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'
>series of programmes organised by ID.Net. The aim
>of the conference is to bring together
>people from different areas and interests to share
>ideas and explore various discussions which are
>innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for
>and presented at this conference are eligible for
>publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will
>be developed for publication in a themed hard copy
>volume.
>
>For further details about the project please visit:
>http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/Monsters/monsters.htm
>
>For further details about the conference please visit:
>http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/Monsters/M6/cfp.html

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