Dangerous Representations
Anxiety, audience and the limits of culture
June 1st & 2nd 2001 - University of Sussex, Brighton, England
Why are so many more people disturbed by the music of Eminem than the words of Ali G.? Why can The Sun reprint a photo of Myra Hindley that can't be shown in an art gallery? What was the fuss over the golden calf? What was it about Lady Chatterly's Lover?
Dangerous Representations is a cross-disciplinary conference examining identity, anxiety, cultural production and power. Papers are requested from all disciplines and periods. Panels will include, but not be limited to:
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Representations of Race and Sexuality
- Early Modern Criminality
- Representations of War
- Popular Culture, Fear and Racial Identity
- Criminality, Subculture and Sexuality
- Creative Responses to National Trauma
- Sex, Race, Audience and Power
Please send short abstracts or panel proposals to
dangerousrepresentations@geocities.com
Or contact via
Dangerous Representations
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton
BN1 9RH