[Commlist] Conference - Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature and Global Environments

*Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments*

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*Conference: Falmouth University, 4-6 July 2023*

In 2014, Falmouth University hosted one of its most successful 
conferences: Haunted Landscapes. This conference is round two, and it 
will be held in beautiful Cornwall on the Falmouth Campus, which is set 
in lush tropical gardens and a few minutes’ walk away from its 
picturesque town and beaches.

Literature, art, and film have always explored concepts of the 
supernatural and the landscape and environment – places and spaces 
haunted by spectres, memory, or history. Landscapes can be haunted by 
echoes and memories of colonization, violence done, and irrevocable acts 
committed. Places may be marked indelibly by the past and by the people 
who populated and shaped the environment in an infinite variety of ways. 
Layers of memory and action can be embedded in the landscape alongside 
the layering of history in stone and soil. Encounters with the landscape 
reverberate through the ages as well as through the rocks, trees, hills, 
and streams that are still present today. Ghosts can shade the 
atmosphere of a place and some things never leave. The environment bears 
witness as places across the globe bear the brunt of human action. This 
conference will explore haunted landscapes of all sorts – from 
environments teetering on collapse due to climate emergency, to 
landscapes steeped in blood, dripping in nostalgia, or haunted by 
spectral memories or supernatural entities.

We welcome topics and proposals from around the world. Subjects can 
include (but are not bound by):

The climate emergency

Places of war and conflict

Ghosts

The Weird

Memory

Altered Spaces

Intoxication

Landscape as palimpsest

Hauntings

The affect and emotion of place

History

Reverberations and echoes

The Uncanny

Nature and haunting

Non-human animals

Flora and fauna

Death, life, and rebirth

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

(hauntedlandscapes2023 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(hauntedlandscapes2023 /at/ gmail.com)>

Deadline: 1^st April 2023

Website: www.darkeconomies.co.uk <http://www.darkeconomies.co.uk>


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