Space, Haunting, Discourse
15-18 June, 2006
The department of English at Karlstad University, Sweden, invites session organizers and presentations for an international, multidisciplinary conference with a focus on different relationships between space, haunting and discourse. We are very happy that a number of people from different countries and disciplines responded to our first call, which means that the conference will be a truly international and interdisciplinary forum for presentations and discussions related to the conference themes.
With this second call for session organizers and papers we encourage researchers, teachers and students in different disciplines to send in proposals for sessions, problem areas and topics that explore discourses on space in different disciplines. We hope to attract researchers from fields in the natural sciences as well as from the humanities and social sciences.
The suggestions on the list below are meant to serve as triggers for brainstorming and a call for session organizers and topics. The conference organizers would be pleased to have sessions on these or other aspects of the conference's general theme: space related to haunting and/or different discourses.
- Mediated Space
- Discourse and Outer Space
- Space vs. Place
- Destabilizing Notions of Space
- Haunted Spaces: Haunting Discourses
- Cultural Space
- Inner and Outer Space
- Gender and Space
- Topography: Fictional and Material Spaces
- Postcolonial Hauntings (Re-Collections): Voodoo in Cyberspace
- Cyber Cartographies
- Dystopias and Utopias
- Space and Time
Individual Proposals
We welcome proposals for individual (15-20 minute) papers and presentations. Please send the following information in an e-mail message:
- Paper or presentation title:
- Contact person: (full name, institution, and e-mail address)
- Abstract: (250-300 words)
Session Proposals
Each session will last for one and a half hours, and the organizer decides the format for the individual session: for instance, a panel with three related 20-minute papers and discussions, a round-table discussion, a workshop. We are especially interested in more interactive session proposals such as workshops and round-table sessions.
The following information should be pasted into an e-mail message:
- Session title:
- Session organizer(s): (full name, institution, and e-mail address)
- Format: (panel, round-table, workshop, etc.)
- Short description of session: (250-300 words)
The deadline for proposals is October 15, 2005.
Please send your suggestions to Maria Holmgren Troy and Elisabeth Wennö
E-mail: Maria.Holmgren.Troy@kau.se, Elisabeth.Wenno@kau.se
Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, Department of English,
651 88 Karlstad, Sweden. Fax: + 46 54 700 14 32.
The following session organizers are currently calling for papers and/or other forms of presentations:
"Collaborative Work and Haunting: Ghostly Theoreticians in Cyberspace"
Organizer: Arnaud Dejeammes (Bordeaux 3 University, France)
E-mail: arnauddejeammes@gmail.com
"The Urban Uncanny"
Organizer: Julian Wolfreys (University of Florida, USA)
E-mail: jwolfreys@cox.net
"Medical Space in Art and Literature"
Organizer: Véronique Simon (Karlstad University, Sweden)
E-mail: veronique.simon@kau.se
"Female Gothic Closets: Strategies of Resistance in Female Gothic Literature"
Organizer: Carol Margaret Davison (University of Windsor, Canada)
E-mail: cdavison@uwindsor.ca
"Placing the Past: Material Culture and the Politics of National Sites"
Organizer: Magnus Rodell (Uppsala University, Sweden)
E-mail: magnus.rodell@idehist.uu.se
"The Abandoned House in Twentieth-Century Poetry and Visual Art"
Organizer: Marit MacArthur (University of California, Davis, USA)
E-mail: mjmacarthur@ucdavis.edu
"Becoming Space"
Organizer: Mark Troy (Karlstad University, Sweden)
E-mail: mark.troy@kau.se
"Ghosts and the Academic Séance"
Organizer: María del Pilar Blanco (New York University, USA)
E-mail: mdb227@nyu.edu
"The Poetics and the Ideology of the Idyll"
Organizer: Bengt Novén (Karlstad University, Sweden)
E-mail: bengt.noven@kau.se