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[ecrea] Fantasies of Contemporary Culture symposium (23 May, Cardiff, University)

Wed May 04 10:52:01 GMT 2016





Registration for the /Fantasies of Contemporary Culture/ symposium (23 May, Cardiff University) will close on *Monday, 9 May*. Sign up now to participate: http://tinyurl.com/cultfantasies.

From the record-breaking sales of J. K. Rowling’s /Harry Potter /series, both in print and on film, to the phenomenal success of various forms of hyperreal ‘reality television’, contemporary Western culture seems singularly obsessed by the spectacular and the fantastic. Rather than attempting to define fantasy, horror, weird, or science fiction as distinct genres, we wish to take up Katheryn Hume’s expansive definition of fantasy as anti-mimetic, or as ‘any departure from consensus reality’ (/Fantasy and Mimesis/, 1984, p. 21), in order to engage with the broader artistic motivation to question the limits of the real. This symposium, then, will explore the political and cultural functions of such fantasies. To what extent does the impulse to create fantasy art comment back upon this ‘consensus reality’, and to what extent does it represent a separate reality? How might the fantastical characters and environments that populate our contemporary cultural landscape be informed by the experience of twenty-first-century metropolitan life, and how do such texts (in)form that experience in return?

Keynote speakers will be Dr Mark Bould (UWE Bristol) and Dr Catherine Butler (Cardiff). Full programme attached.

*Day rates are just £10 for students and £20 for salaried individuals. *This includes access to the programme, lunch, coffee breaks, and an evening wine reception.

All interested parties, whether academic and non-academic, are very welcome.

Visit our website (http://culturalfantasies.wordpress.com <http://culturalfantasies.wordpress.com/>) for more information. You can also contact us by e-mail ((culturalfantasies /at/ cardiff.ac.uk) <mailto:(culturalfantasies /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)>), or on Twitter (@cultfantasies).

/[Note: if you are a member of ENCAP at Cardiff University, your attendance has been subsidised, but you *will still need to register* if you want to participate in the lunch, coffee breaks, or wine reception.]/
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