[ecrea] Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture - Conference

Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture – A Two-Day Conference

Date: Friday 8th-Saturday 9th March 2013
Location / Hosed by: St Mary’s University College, Twickenham and Strawberry Hill House
Confirmed Speakers:
• Michael Snodin (The Victoria and Albert Museum)
• Prof John Bowen (University of York)
• Prof Allan Simmons (St Mary's University College, London)

www.smuc.ac.uk/gothic

This conference, held in the Gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill, west London, will interrogate the many and varied cultures of the Gothic that were largely set in train by the owner of this mansion, Horace Walpole, in the mid-eighteenth century. As Walpole’s projects well exemplify – an aesthetic rebellion against a classical orthodoxy, which nonetheless looked implicitly to the restoration of some former social order – Gothic’s cultural poetics have always been difficult to place politically.
To what degree have Gothic tendencies in Literature, Art, Architecture and Screen Media been participants in, adjuncts to, contesters of, or alternatives to cultural and political mainstreams, and how might such relationships be assessed by historians and critics? If Gothic was the Enlightenment’s naughty child, to what extent is its rebelliousness mental or political, and is it ultimately co-opted by the order that it appears to resist?
This is a multi-disciplinary conference, and proposals for papers are invited in response to such questions in the fields, amongst others, of literature, screen media, art, architecture and popular culture. Participants will be offered the chance to see Horace Walpole’s Gothic mansion, now resplendent in its recently-renovated state, and to dine there during the conference. Preference will be given to papers that are suitable for an enthusiastic amateur audience, as well as specialists in the appropriate field.

A bursary will be offered to cover conference fees for the best proposal by a postgraduate student.

Call for Papers
200-word proposals for papers of 20-25 minutes, should be sent, by 30 October 2012 to:

Jessica Jeske
School of CCCA
St. Mary's University College
London TW1 4SX
(jessica.jeske /at/ smuc.ac.uk)
+44 (0)20 8240 4040
More Information About the Conference and Strawberry Hill House

www.smuc.ac.uk/gothic
www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk

Claire Leighton
Community Development Officer
Strawberry Hill House
268 Waldegrave Road
Twickenham
TW1 4ST
E:(claire.leighton /at/ strawberryhillhouse.org.uk)
T: +44 (0)20 8744 1241

Peter Howell
Senior Lecturer in English
St. Mary's University College
London TW1 4SX
E:(peter.howell /at/ smuc.ac.uk)
T: +44 (0)20 82404124


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