Call for
Papers
The Research Centre for Communication and Culture
presents:
PANIC AND MOURNING
1st GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN CULTURE STUDIES
October 28-29, 2010
Portuguese Catholic University
Lisbon, Portugal
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2010
Panic and mourning are two distinct emotional constructs that often
intersect and interplay in landscapes of conflict, violence, crisis,
tragedy and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends
to occur during the experience of the catastrophic events, mourning, on
the other hand, relates to the aftermath of a violent disruption and to
the way humans try to make sense of it retrospectively. Conversely,
violent events can also leave a thread of panic in its aftermath, such as
mourning can be disturbed or reinstated by a catastrophic
occurrence.
This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to address questions at the
interface of panic and mourning, both individually and jointly. We are
particularly interested in investigating representations and performances
of modalities and contexts of panic (fear, horror, terror, rage, anxiety,
shock, threat) and mourning (pain, grief, loss, trauma, memory,
melancholy, nostalgia, healing) in media, literary and cultural
frameworks.
This conference wishes to bring together doctoral students,
Post-doc and junior researchers from different areas and
disciplines to share research interests and works-in-progress, learn and
engage in fresh intellectual discussion with international key
academics and build a community of young scholars.
Papers are welcome on the topics listed below, amongst others:
- The cultural construction of panic and mourning
- Representations of panic and mourning in literature and the arts
- Mediation and the mediatization of panic and mourning
- Panic and mourning as spectacle
- Tropes of panic and mourning between victimhood and agency
- Public and private rituals of panic and mourning
- Gendered discourses of panic and mourning
- The work of law in practices of mourning
- Transgenerational mourning and the heritage of collective loss
- Dimensions of panic: moral panic, technopanic, hyperpanic, media panic,
voluptuous panic, global panic
- Power, governamentality, and the regulation of emotions
Confirmed keynote speakers:
- Ban Wang (Stanford University)
- Barry Richards (Media School, University of Bournemouth)
- Frederik Tygstrup (Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural
Studies)
- António Sousa Ribeiro (Centre for Social Studies, University of
Coimbra)
- Eduardo Cintra Torres (CECC / Institute for Social Sciences, University
of Lisbon)
The conference language is English
Speakers should be prepared for a 15-minute presentation followed by
questions.
Please send a 250-word abstract, as well as a brief biographical note
(100 words) to
(panicandmourning /at/ gmail.com)
by June 30, 2010. Proposals should list paper title, name,
institutional affiliation, and contact details.
E-mails should be entitled: Panic and Mourning Abstract
Submission
Successful applicants will be notified by July 15, 2010.
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. We suggest then to resend it.
We regret that travel and accommodation funding for conference
participants is not available at this time.
Registration is due by July 30
Fees
Speakers – 30€
Participants - 45€
Late registrations (after July 30) – 50€
The registration fee includes lunches on the two conference days.
Payment
By bank transfer
NIB 003300000017013412105
IBAN PT50 0033 0000 0017 0134 1210 5
SWIFT BCOMPTPL
By cheque endorsed to:
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
and sent to:
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura
A/C Rosário Lopes
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas
Palma de Cima
1649-023 Lisboa
Portugal
Please send the notification (in case of online-banking) or a copy of
the bank transfer document to the e-mail
(panicandmourning /at/ gmail.com)
For CECC researchers there is no registration fee.
Organizing Committee
Cátia Ferreira
Daniela Agostinho
Elisa Antz
Elisabetta Colla
Tânia Ganito
For further information:
www.panicandmourning.wordpress.com
