UPDATE: Gothic Deviance and Defiance (1/15/05; IGA, 8/11/05-8/14/05)

(Update with new website address)

Proposals are now invited for the seventh biennial conference of the
International Gothic Association, "Deviance and Defiance," to be held in
Montreal, Canada, 11-14 August 2005. http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwgac/IGA2005 .
Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2005. See below for submission
information.

Teresa Goddu has written that "the gothic can remain continuous with
official narratives, even when it apparently contradicts them. The gothic
may unveil the ideology of official discourse, but its transformative power
can be limited."

The 2005 IGA conference theme, "Deviance and Defiance," picks up on these
conclusions, with an aim to framing the conference around the ways in which
the gothic (widely defined) can be both reactionary and progressive,
conservative and radical, deviating from the norm while reinforcing it,
entrenching common wisdom while defying its codes of conduct. As such, this
topic invites both a profound attention to historical context, while
encouraging new and innovative comparative analyses that reorder our sense
of history--a hallmark of IGA conferences.

Therefore, we invite studies of the gothic writ large on the literary,
cultural, and political stages. Possible topics could include, but are not
limited to:

         *Bodily deviance / defiance (as in the traditional gothic monster,
but also ranging to contemporary goth subculture and body modification)
         *Generic deviance / defiance of traditions (allowing literary,
architectural, and other histories of the gothic and its many cultural
relations and doubles)
         *The gothic and political defiance (opening the space for analyses
of the use of gothic discourse by disparate political organizations and
movements, such as anti-slavery movements in the US and elsewhere, the
suffrage and civil rights movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries,
the gothic imagery of imperialism, past and present, of the War on Terror, etc)
         *Sexual deviance and gender defiance (or vice versa) in the gothic
         *and many others

The deadline for submission of 250-500 words proposals is January 15,
2005. Online submission forms and other conference information can be
found at our website, http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwgac/IGA2005, or by emailing us
at IGA2005_at_wlu.ca. For information about the International Gothic
Association itself, please visit http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwgac .

We are also extremely happy to announce the plenary speakers for our
conference: Michael Gamer (joint with NASSR 2005), Teresa Goddu, and Kate
Pullinger. Please visit the website for complete information. (This
year's IGA conference will be dovetailed with the annual conference of the
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, also focusing on
deviance and defiance, which will be held from the 13th-17th of August at
the same location; see
<http://www.etang.umontreal.ca/nassr2005>http://www.etang.umontreal.ca/nassr2005
.)

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Dr. Jason Haslam
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of English, University of Notre Dame
and Instructor
Cultural Studies Program, Wilfrid Laurier University
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~jwhaslam

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