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> >From: "Andrew Hill" <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: CFP: Haunting, War and Conflict (Sweden) (10/15/05; Space, >Haunting, Discourse, 6/15/06-6/18/06) > >'Haunting, War and Conflict' - a session to be held at 'Space, Haunting, >Discourse,' an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Department = >of >English at Karlstad University, Sweden, June 15-18, 2006. > > >Session description: > >The realm of the ghostly has figured as a repeated referent in histories = >of >war and conflict - from the pre-modern practice of invoking ghosts and >spirits to assist in combat, to notions of the ghosts of dead soldiers = >and >citizens haunting battlefields and sites of destruction, to the = >portrayal of >Al Qaeda as constituting a type of 'phantom enemy'. > >Despite the depth of historical linkages between war, conflict and the >ghostly, and the range of potential topics for analysis, comparatively >little scholarly research has appeared on these themes. > >This panel seeks to bring together papers on the diversity of = >connections >between the ghostly and war and conflict, to contrast and establish = >links >between different historical periods and diverse spaces and locales. > >Possible themes include but are not limited to: > > - The haunting of conflict spaces - battlefields, hospitals, sites of >destruction. > >- Changing conceptions of the ghostly in relation to war and conflict. > >- The ontology of the enemy. > >- The invocation of ghosts to aid combat. > >- The aftermath of combat and conflict. > >- Ghosts and the representation of war and conflict. > >- Psychoanalysis, phantasy and combat. > >- The 'disappearances' of combatants and civilians. > >- The traces of past wars and conflicts. > > >First CFP deadline 15th October 2005. =20 > > >Please email abstracts of 250-300 words, for presentations of 15-20 = >minutes, >to - > >Dr Andrew Hill > >[log in to unmask] > >Research Associate >Centre for Media Research >University of Ulster >Coleraine >County Londonderry >BT52 1SA > > >Please include contact information. > >For more information on the full conference, visit the conference = >homepage: > >http://www.kk.kau.se/eng/conf/space/ ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Megan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html