Fear, Horror and Terror
Tuesday 6th September 2011 – Thursday 8th
September 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
conference seeks to examine and explore issues
which lie at the interface of fear, horror
and terror. In particular the project is
interested in investigating the various contexts
of fear, horror and terror, and assessing issues
surrounding the artistic, cinematic, literary,
moral, social, (geo) political, philosophical,
psychological and religious significance of them,
both individually and together.
We are also looking towards a 'track' theme in the
area of the relationship between fear, horror and
terror and the audio-visual (sight/sound/silence)
this year. We invite proposals on any area listed
below that relates to this track theme, as well as
any areas related to the conference. This thematic
track is envisioned to develop with each
subsequent meeting.
In addition to academic analysis, we welcome the
submission of case studies or other approaches
from those involved with its practice, such
as people in religious orders, therapists, victims
of events which have been provoked by experiences
of fear, horror and terror – for example,lawyers
or others involved with law enforcement, medical
practitioners, or fiction authors whose work aims
to evoke these reactions.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops
are invited on issues related to any of the
following themes:
1. The Contexts of Fear, Horror and Terror
- case studies
- professions dealing with the Fear, Horror and
Terror (Therapists, Clergy, Lawyers, Law
enforcement etc.)
- creating and experiencing fear, horror and terror
- the properties of fear, horror and terror
- contexts of fear, horror and terror
- the language of fear, horror and terror
- the meaning of fear, horror and terror
- the significance of fear, horror and terror
2. At the Interface of Fear, Horror and Terror
- the role of fear, horror and terror
- emotional releases (pleasant or negative)
achieved by Fear, Horror and Terror
- techniques of fear, horror and terror
- marketing fear, horror and terror
- recreational fear, horror and terror
- aesthetic fear, horror and terror
- the temperature of fear, horror and terror
- the sound of fear, horror and terror
- silence as a strategic subversion of the
operation of fear, horror and terror
- fear, horror and terror and the visible/invisible
3. Representations of Fear, Horror and Terror and:
- the imagination
- pleasure
- art, cinema, theatre, media and the creative arts
- survival horror video games
- literature (including children's stories)
- the other
- technology
- hope and despair
- relations to anxiety, disgust, dread, loathing
- hope and the future
- the sublime
For 2011, the Fear, Horror and Terror project will
meet alongside our project on Making Sense Of:
Health, Illness and Disease. It is our
intention to create cross-over sessions between
the two groups – and we welcome proposals which
deal with the relationship between health,
illness and disease and fear, horror and terror.
Themes could include: fear and global threats to
health (swine flu, bird flu, SARS, for
example), or horror and disease (fear of our
bodies, contagion, HIV/AIDS, for example), or
terror and biological warfare. Papers will
be accepted which deal with related areas and themes.
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 22nd 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: FHT 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
* Colette Balmain
Conference Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Independent Scholar, London, United Kingdom
Email: cb@inter-disciplinary.net
.
* Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
Hub Leader, Evil, Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
School of English, Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland
E-mail: snf@inter-disciplinary.net
* Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Freeland,
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
E-mail: fht5@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'
series of research projects. 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.
For further details about the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terror/
For further details about the conference, please
visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terror/call-for-papers/
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