9th Global Conference
Monsters and the Monstrous
Saturday 10th September – Tuesday 13th September 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
project 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.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and
pre-formed panels 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
* Comedy: funny monsters and/or making fun of
monsters (e.g. Monsters vs. Aliens, the Addams Family)
* Monstrous Avatars or objects
* Monsters and subjectivity
* Monsters and Sexuality
* Making monsters; monstrous births, childhood
* Mutants and mutations and freaks
* Technologies of the monstrous (including
Role Playing Games)
* 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
* Revolution and monsters
* Enemies (political/social/military) and
monsters
* Iconography of the monstrous
* The popularity of the modern monsters; the
Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein, Vampires, Cannibals
* The monster in literature
* The monster in media (television, cinema,
radio, internet)
* Religious depictions of the monstrous
* Metaphors and the monstrous
* The problematic attraction and admiration
of monsters
* Monstrous (In)Humanity / (In)Human Monstrosity
* Monstrous Politics
* Critical Theories on the Monstrous
Papers can be accepted which deal solely with
specific monsters. This project will run
concurrently with our project on Space and Place –
we welcome any papers considering the problems or
addressing issues on Monsters and Space and Place
for a cross-over panel. We also welcome
pre-formed panels on any aspect of the monstrous
or in relation to crossover panel(s).
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
25th March 2011. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 8th July 2011.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to the
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
a) author(s)
b) affiliation
c) email address
d) title of abstract
e) body of abstract
E-mails should be entitled: Monsters Abstract
Submission
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.
Organising Chairs
* Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
Hub Leader, Evil Hub, Inter-Disciplinary.Net
School of English, Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland
E-mail: snf@inter-disciplinary.net
* Rob Fisher
Network Founder & Leader,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire
United Kingdom
E-mail: m9@inter-disciplinary.net
* Stephen Morris
Hub Leader
Independent Scholar
New York, USA
USA
E-mail: smmorris58@yahoo.com
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 may be invited to go forward for
development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.
Some papers may also be invited for inclusion in
the Journal of Monsters and the Monstrous.
For further details of the project, please visit
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monsters-and-the-monstrous/
For further details of the conference, please visit
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monsters-and-the-monstrous/call-for-papers/
Sponsored by: Inter-Disciplinary.Net
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