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> >Subject: CFP: Monsters and the Monstrous (UK) (6/2/06; 9/18/06-9/21/06) > >4th Global Conference >Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil > >Monday 18th September - Thursday 21st September 2006 >Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom > >Call for Papers >(please cross post where appropriate) > >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 > >Papers will also be accepted which deal solely with specific monsters. > >Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts >should be submitted by Friday 2nd June 2006. If your paper is >accepted for presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft paper >should be submitted by Friday 1st September 2006. > >300 word abstracts should be submitted to both the Organising Joint >Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats. > >Rob Fisher >Wickedness Net >Freeland, Oxfordshire >United Kingdom >E-Mail: [log in to unmask] > >Stephen Morris >Independent Scholar >New York, USA >USA >E-Mail: [log in to unmask] > >The conference is part of a larger series of ongoing conferences >entitled At the Interface, and run as a project under the auspices >of Wickedness.Net. It aims 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 the conference will be >published as an ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and >presented at this conference will be published in a hard copy themed >volume. Two ISBN eBooks and three themed volumes are available >and/or in press from previous meetings of this project. > >For further details about the project, please visit: >http://www.wickedness.net/Monsters/monsters.htm > >For further details about the conference, please visit: >http://www.wickedness.net/Monsters/M4/cfp.html ******************* 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