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Monsters and the Monstrous: Call for Papers

Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 27th, 2008

6th Global Conference

Monsters and the Monstrous:
Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil

Monday 22nd September - Thursday 25th September 2008
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to investigate and explore the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human culture throughout history. In particular, the project will have a dual focus with the intention of examining specific ‘monsters’ as well as assessing the role, function and consequences of persons, actions or events identified as ‘monstrous’. The history and contemporary cultural influences of monsters and monstrous metaphors will also be examined.

Perspectives are sought from those engaged in the fields of literature, media studies, cultural studies, history, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, health and theology. Ideas are welcomed from those involved in academic study, fictional explorations, and applied areas (e.g. youth work, criminology and medicine).

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:

The “monster” through history
Civilization, monsters and the monstrous
Children, childhood, stories and monsters; monsters and parents
Comedy: funny monsters and/or making fun of monsters (e.g. Monsters Inc, the Addams Family)
Making monsters; monstrous births
Mutants and mutations
Technologies of the monstrous
Horror, fear and scare
Do monsters kill because they are monstrous or are they monstrous because they kill?
How critical to the definition of “monster” is death or the threat of death?
Human ‘monsters’ and ‘monstrous’ acts? e.g, perverts, paedophiles and serial killers
The monstrous and gender
Revolution and monsters; the monstrous and politics; enemies (political/social/military) and monsters
Iconography of the monstrous
The popularity of the modern monsters; the Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein, Vampires
The monster in literature
The monstrous in popular culture: film, television, theatre, radio, print, internet. The monstrous and journalism
Religious depictions of the monstrous; the monstrous and the supernatural
Metaphors and the monstrous
The monstrous and war, war reportage/propaganda
Monsters, the monstrous and the internet; monstrous virtualities
Monsters, gaming and on-line communities
Papers will be accepted which deal solely with specific monsters. We also welcome proposals for pre-formed panels which specifically explore the themes of hybridity or themes of monstrous parents and families. In addition, papers which examine the theme of hope in relations to monsters (for joint sessions with the Hope project running at the same time) are wlecome.

Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 9th May 2008. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 8th August 2008.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
Project Co-Leader
School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Rob Fisher
Network Founder & Leader Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire
United Kingdom

Stephen Morris
Project Co-Leader
Independent Scholar
New York, USA
USA
The conference is part of the ‘At the Interface’ series of programmes organised by ID.Net. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume.

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ETxArtist responds: March 28th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Once again, thanks for the post. I’m exploring the role of Sasquatch and other ‘monsters’ in the changing American society right now, through visual and conceptual art. I found this to be really good information!

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