CALL FOR PAPERS / DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2004
NINETEENTH-CENTURY ABERRATIONS AND AFTER-IMAGES (Graduate)
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER, CANADA
SATURDAY MARCH 27, 2004
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. LAURA U. MARKS
Film theorist and distinguished Wosk University Professor in Art and
Culture
Simon Fraser University, BC
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The fourth annual Nineteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Studies Students'
Collective (NISSC) graduate conference will address
aberrations--interpreted broadly as abnormal structures or deviance
from the ordinary--and their after-images (resonance) in both
nineteenth-century contexts and beyond. How do aberrations affect
nineteenth-century subjectivity? What is the relationship between
nineteenth-century technology and aberration? How, and in what ways are
nineteenth-century aberrations impressed in the (post)modern subject’s
mind’s eye?
Topics under consideration, but not limited to:
-- nineteenth-century optical aberrations and how to interpret them
-- musical monstrosities
-- technology and aberration
-- the nineteenth century as an aberrant after-image in film and the
digital
archive
-- staging deviance in the theatre
-- abnormality and the law
-- architectural aberrations: the gothic revival
-- theories of the grotesque and sublime
-- painted subjects that reflect aberrations
-- sensation and aberration: mesmerism; animal magnetism; séances
-- genetic aberrations: birth defects
-- mental aberrations
-- sexual aberrations
-- circuses, freaks, and freak shows / bizarre behavior and ruthless
acts
-- alterity and aberrance
Papers not to exceed 20 minutes. Please send 400 word abstract (maximum)
and 30 word biography in the body of an email (no attachments, please)
by January 15, 2004 to:
Tracy Wyman-Marchand and David Van den Broek
tracywym@interchange.ubc.ca
Include name, institution, and any A/V needs. Email notification by
January 25, 2004. PIANO AVAILABLE FOR MUSIC PRESENTATIONS
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