[Commlist] CfP: Haunted Modernities Conference

Another ‘dark’ conference in gorgeous Cornwall!

*Haunted Modernities, Present Pasts and Spectral Futures*

Wednesday-Friday July 16-18 2025

Falmouth University, Cornwall, UK

This conference explores haunted modernities and spectral futures of all 
sorts. Looking back to the past as a haunted space and forward to the 
‘spectres’ of the future, we want ‘Haunted Modernities’ to be indicative 
of wide open spaces and fruitful intersections in scholarship and 
practice. Whether work is hyper-local, global, or interstellar we 
welcome imaginative, creative, ethical, and diverse discussions from all 
disciplines and subject areas. As well as traditional papers, creative 
practice work is also invited in whatever form - written, film, audio, 
performance, exhibitions etc.

Hosted by Falmouth University, and co-sponsored by Northeastern 
University, the Haunted Modernities conference will be held in Cornwall 
on the Falmouth Campus, which is set in lush tropical gardens a few 
minutes’ walk from its picturesque town and beaches.

Following on from our other international conferences which included 
‘Folk Horror in the Twenty-First Century’ and ‘Haunted Landscapes I & 
II’, please come and join us for this latest conference for the annual 
conference of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (DESA).

*Keywords/Possible Topics include (but are not bound by):*


AI (affects and effects)

Architecture

Art

Comics

Climate Disaster

Consciousness

Crip Pasts/Futures

Cyber Spirituality

Data

Fugitivity

Futurism

Film

Games

Gender (of all and any sorts)

Gentrification

Ghosts

Heritage

Hauntology

Hyperconnection

Home/shelter/house/development

Infrastructure

Literature

Lots, allotments

Machines

Magic

Manifestos

Maps

Micro landscapes

Migration

Mobility/Stasis

Neuroscience

Nostalgia

(Post)colonial, (Post)apartheid

Queer geographies

Racial Capitalism

Reverberations and Echoes

Slippage

The Subterranean

Space - the interstellar

Traces

Trauma

Translocal, Transurban, Transnational

The Uncanny

Urban geographies

Vacancy/Vagrancy

The Weird

Work


Please send 250 word abstracts and a short bio (and any questions) to:

(DESA /at/ falmouth.ac.uk) <mailto:(DESA /at/ falmouth.ac.uk)> and, 
(k.saxton /at/ northeastern.edu) <mailto:(k.saxton /at/ northeastern.edu)>

Deadline: March 17 2025

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