[Commlist] CFP: 'Gothic in a Time of Contagion, Populism and Racial Injustice'

*International Gothic Association*

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*/_CALL FOR PAPERS_/*

*Gothic****in a Time of Contagion,*

*Populism and Racial Injustice*

*//*

*A Gothic-Without-Borders Conference in March 2021, /fully online,/*

*hosted by the Department of World Languages and Literatures (WLL)
at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada,*

*coordinated by the SFU Center for Educational Excellence (CEE), and*

*co-sponsored by the International Gothic Association (IGA) and others*

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*_Plenary Speakers_*

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Linnie Blake, /Manchester Metropolitan University, UK/

Mark Deggan, /Simon Fraser University, Canada/

Andrew Hock Soon Ng, /Monash University, Malaysia/

Maisha Wester, /Indiana University, Bloomington, USA/

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/“In the first place, a blazing star or comet appeared for several 
months before the plague, as there did the year after another, a little 
before the fire. The old women …. remarked…that those two comets passed 
directly over the city, and that so very near the houses that it was 
plain they imported something peculiar to the city alone; that the comet 
before the pestilence was of a faint, dull, languid colour, and its 
motion very heavy, Solemn, and slow…and that, accordingly, one foretold 
a heavy judgement, slow but severe, terrible and frightful, as was the 
plague/’.

Daniel Defoe, /A Journal of the Plague Year 1665 /(1722)

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The conference organizers herewith call for proposals for papers on how 
forms of the Gothic deal with the critical issues arising from racism, 
social injustice, populism, mass infection, and the relation of each of 
these to/contagion/ in at least one of its many forms – the most 
pressing issues of our current moment -- now and throughout world history.

The Conference Organizing Committee will entertain proposals about 
Gothic literature, drama, film, television, art-forms and/or cyberspace 
for a symposium to be conducted entirely online over 2-3 days. The 
proposals may range from abstracts for individual papers to suggested 
panels of 3 papers each to possible roundtables of up to 5 speakers.The 
final papers should be 3600 words (or less), and audio-visual 
presentations should last no longer than 20 minutes.All completed papers 
or presentations, once each proposal has been accepted (proposers will 
hear back by or before December 1), should be sent in electronically by 
February 15, 2021, well in advance of the conference itself. This 
process will enable the delegates at online sessions to read or view 
these presentations in full (or in abstract form) beforehand and then 
participate in hour-long online discussions after each presenter begins 
each session with a /précis/ of his/her argument.The official program 
will list all titles of presentations and the times of every session 
with the names and institutions of each author. There will be no 
conference fee for anyone, but all participants are expected to register 
for the conference and to be paid-up members of the IGA, at least at the 
partial level [go to 
_http://www.internationalgothic.group.shef.ac.uk/join-the-iga/_]. /We 
particularly welcome proposals from postgraduate students, other younger 
scholars, and specialists in Gothic from all parts of the world, 
especially those distant from the usual sites of IGA conferences./

_Topics may include, but are not limited to_:

  * Gothic manifestations of any of our themes, treated individually or
    in connections with each other, insofar as they involve some form of
    contagion
  * Suggestions about these themes and contagion in monstrosities,
    ghost-figures or settings that develop the Gothic tradition
  * Gothic renditions of these problems that touch on colonized peoples
    or postcolonial life
  * Gothic manifestations of contagious cultural conflicts over gender,
    sexual orientation, or transgender sexuality
  * Contagions in Gothic works as interpreted by ecocriticism or
    disability studies
  * The Gothic in relation to theoretical discourses connected with
    contagion and any of our other themes
  * The Gothic as it manifests, or contributes to, the histories and/or
    politics of contagion, populism, and/or racial injustice /or/ to the
    cultural and psychological consequences of any one, two, or all of
    these realities.

_Proposals/abstracts for individual papers_(proposals no longer than 300 
words) should include titles, presenter names, institutional 
affiliations and e-mail addresses and can result in either typescript 
documents or audio/visual recordings sent in as e-mail 
attachments._Proposals for panels_ that will take place in one-hour 
online sessions (with each proposal no longer than 800 words) should 
include a session title, the name and contact information of the chair 
and abstracts no longer than 200 words from each presenter, with his/her 
name and affiliation. _Proposals for roundtables_ (up to 800 words) 
should include a title; the chair’s name, affiliation, and e-mail 
address; the names and affiliations of the participants; and a proposed 
format. _Plenary sessions_ online may include single speakers or panels 
of experts invited by the Conference Organizing Committee in 
consultation with the leadership of this symposium’s co-sponsors. All 
sessions, if all the participants consent and depending on the available 
technology, will be recorded and made accessible to all conference 
attendees online. //The precise dates, panels, and plenary arrangements 
involving our SFU Zoom technology are still being worked on, and we will 
keep everyone well informed about the links, schedule, and further tech 
elements as we go forward.


/The exact dates of the conference in March 2021 will be determined 
after all the proposals have been received so as to avoid conflicts with 
other events that might involve presenters and/or session leaders. /

*Send all proposals as MS Word attachments, as well as any questions 
about this conference, to <**(iga_wll /at/ sfu.ca)>****by October 31, 2020.*

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*_Conference Organizing Committee_*

_Co-Chairs_

Jerrold E. Hogle, /University of Arizona, USA/

John Whatley, /Simon Fraser University, Canada/

Antonio Alcalá, /Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City///

Katarzyna Ancuta,/Chulalongkorn University//, Thailand/

Karen Budra, /University of Langara, Canada/

Mariaconcetta Costantini, /Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio," Italy/

Charles L. Crow, /Bowling Green State University, USA/

Carol Margaret Davison, /University of Windsor, Canada/

Ken Gelder, /University of Melbourne, Australia/

Monica Germana/, University of Westminster, UK/

Jason Haslam, /Dalhousie University, Canada/

Enrique Ajuria Ibarra, /Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico/

Hsu Li-hsin, /National Chengchi University, Taiwan/

Karen MacFarlane, /Mount St. Vincent University, Nova Scotia, Canada/

Gilles Menegaldo, /University of Poitiers, France/

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, /University of Lausanne, Switzerland/

Aris Mousoutzanis, /University of Brighton, UK/

Chiho Nagakawa, /Nara's Women University, Japan/

Paulina Palmer, /University of Warwick, UK/

David Punter, /University of Bristol, UK/

Marie Mulvey-Roberts, /University of the West of England, UK/

Verita Sriratana, /Chulalongkorn University, Thailand/

Cynthia Sugars, /University of Ottowa, Canada/

Nida Tiranasawasdi, /Chulalongkorn University, Thailand/

Gina Wisker, /University of Brighton, UK/

Sue Zlosnik, /Manchester Metropolitan University, UK/

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