CFP Monstrous Bodies: From Frankenstein to the Posthuman (2/13/2026; Madrid 4/23-24/2026)

Monstrous Bodies: From Frankenstein to the Posthuman

deadline for submissions:
February 13, 2026

full name / name of organization:
Saint Louis University Madrid

contact email:
olivia.badoi@slu.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/03/monstrous-bodies-from-frankenstein-to-the-posthuman

Monstrous Bodies: From Frankenstein to the Posthuman

Saint Louis University Madrid, April 23-24, 2026

Two centuries after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein first posed urgent questions about creation, responsibility, and what constitutes the human, we find ourselves once again confronting transgressive bodies that challenge boundaries—and monsters that reflect our deepest anxieties about the essence of humanity. Classic monsters are being reimagined with renewed urgency: Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025) explicitly rejects AI and digital technology in favor of "old-fashioned craftsmanship" and practical effects, while Robert Eggers' Nosferatu (2024) and Luc Besson's Dracula (2025) resurrect the vampire to explore psychological trauma, isolation, and the burden of immortality—Eggers through the lens of female agency and Victorian pathologization, Besson through existential tragedy and centuries of alienation.

Meanwhile, body horror has emerged as a dominant mode of cultural critique, from films like The Substance (2024) that weaponize visceral transformation to expose ageism and misogyny, to literary works like Rahel Yoder´s Nightbitch (2021), Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy (2023), or Jade Song's Chlorine (2023).

These works arrive at a crucial juncture: the Age of AI has intensified anxieties about what defines human intelligence, creativity, embodiment, and consciousness. In an era when machines can generate art, hold conversations, and simulate human thought, the figure of the monster—whether Frankenstein's creature, the vampire, or the body-in-transformation—becomes a powerful lens for examining the boundaries of the human.

This conference brings together foundational and emerging scholarship in monster studies, posthumanism, and body theory. Drawing on Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's "Monster Theory" (1996), Susan Stryker on trans monstrosity as resistance, and N. Katherine Hayles on posthuman embodiment, we examine how contemporary monsters challenge boundaries of the human. The conference engages established critical posthumanist frameworks (Haraway, Braidotti, Alaimo, Wolfe) alongside emerging voices pushing these conversations forward—including Oxana Timofeeva's work on the "non-human as such" that challenges posthumanism's own anthropocentrism, and Maria Hlavajova's explorations of art's role in posthuman futures. We particularly welcome papers that analyze how monstrous bodies function as sites of struggle, medical intervention, and cultural inscription—or that explore how monstrosity offers modes of resistance, reimagining boundaries of the human.

Possible Topics Include:

Monster Theory and the Posthuman Condition

• The monster as cultural symptom in contemporary posthuman theory (Alaimo, Braidotti, Haraway)
• Viral monsters and contagion narratives in the wake of pandemic experience
• AI anxiety and the return of the created monster in 21st-century Gothic

Bodies Under Capitalism

• Beauty terror and age horror in The Substance and contemporary body horror cinema
• Monstrous transformations as critiques of late capitalism and neoliberal body politics
• Wellness culture, optimization, and the production of the "failed" body

Gothic Feminisms and Queer Monstrosity

• Victorian anxieties reimagined: female agency and pathologization in Eggers' Nosferatu
• Trans embodiment and monstrous becoming in contemporary speculative fiction
• Reproductive horror and the monstrous-feminine from Rosemary's Baby to Titane

Disability and Monstrous Embodiment

• Crip monstrosity and the rejection of cure narratives
• Prosthetic bodies and cyborg identities in science fiction
• Mad studies approaches to the "monstrous" mind

Race, Colonialism, and the Monstrous Other

• Decolonizing monster studies: indigenous perspectives on shapeshifting and transformation
• The zombie as racial metaphor from Haiti to Get Out
• Afrofuturist reimaginings of monstrous embodiment

Technology, Creation, and Responsibility

• Laboratory life: from Shelley's workshop to CRISPR and synthetic biology
• Digital ghosts and virtual monsters in the age of deepfakes
• The ethics of creation "without responsibility" in AI and biotechnology

Environmental Monsters and Multispecies Encounters

• Climate horror and monstrous ecologies in the Anthropocene
• Fungal networks, viral agencies, and more-than-human monsters
• Toxic bodies and chemical transformations in environmental justice narratives

Submission Guidelines

We welcome proposals for:

• Individual papers (20 minutes)
• Pre-formed panels (3-4 papers)
• Creative presentations and performances
• Roundtable discussions

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words, along with a brief biographical note (100 words), to olivia.badoi@slu.edu by February 13.


Last updated November 3, 2025

CFP Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference) (9/15/2025; online 11/21/2025)

Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference)

deadline for submissions:
September 15, 2025

full name / name of organization:
West of Canon Press

contact email:
editor@westofcanon.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/24/frankology-or-the-thoroughly-modern-prometheus-a-re-vision-of-sensualities-in



Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference)



West of Canon Press seeks papers and presentations on Frankenstein from academics, artists, and folks across disciplines for a virtual conference celebrating the long legacy of this incredible book. We are looking for academic style papers as well as creative responses to Frankenstein and its related media.



A non-comprehensive list of what we’re hoping to see and include:

• Transgender identity (specifically transmasculinities) in Frankenstein and other works by the Romantics.
• Lake Geneva studies- Looking at Shelley-adjacent Romantics in a different light (discussions of polyamory and free love welcome.).
• The poetics of monstrosity
• Incest and queerness in Frankenstein
• Disability studies and Frankenstein
• Indigiqueer and racialized perspectives on Frankenstein
• Cinematic depictions of the creature, including Karloff, Warhol, Zelda Williams, Hammer Horror, James Whale etc.
• Theatre, music, and dance iterations of Frankenstein.
• Adaptations and responses ie. Frank Kiss Stein, Ex Machina, Penny Dreadful, Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Frankenstein in Baghdad, Junji Ito’s manga, Young Frankenstein, Danny Boyle’s stage adaptation with Benedict Cumberbatch
• Guillermo del Toro’s longstanding love affair with Frankenstein.
• Nautical queerness, eco-queerness and homoeroticism in Frankenstein
• The epistolary
• Phenomenology
• The cadaver and the soul; complicating ‘new life’ in Frankenstein via crime, race, religion etc.
• Filmic lore about Frankenstein which is parallel to canon but taken as truth; peg necks, Elizabeth as the Bride etc.
• Everyone’s Met Frankenstein: Frankenstein’s pop culture encounters with The Munsters, Scooby-Doo, Abbott and Costello, Alvin and the Chipmunks etc.
• Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley
• Frankenstein and queer collaboration.
• Mental Illness and neurodiversity.
• Frankenstein, editorial processes, and collaboration.
• Artificial Intelligence as Adam
• Short stories, poems, plays, songs, dance, art-works, etc.,

The conference will hopefully conclude with a viewing of Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of the work, which Netflix says is scheduled for November of this year, but we will have a firm date of Friday November 21, 2025. CV, artist’s statement, and abstracts of 200-500 words for a 20 minute presentation, panel or creative project can be sent to Oscar Anderson at editor@westofcanon.com by September 15. 

While we’re not requiring content warnings for abstracts, please inform ahead if there’s any part of your presentation or abstract that flashes and/or contains bright light.


Last updated June 26, 2025

CFP The Shelley Conference 2024: 'Posthumous Poems', Posthumous Collaborations (1/29/2024; London 6/28-29/2024)

The Shelley Conference 2024: 'Posthumous Poems', Posthumous Collaborations

deadline for submissions:
January 29, 2024

full name / name of organization:
The Shelley Conference

contact email:
shelleyconference@gmail.com

The Shelley Conference 2024

Posthumous Poems, Posthumous Collaborations

Keats House Museum, London, 28-29 June 2024



Two years after the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley in the summer of 1822, Mary Shelley, after a painstaking editorial process, published Posthumous Poems (1824). The volume contained much of Shelley’s major poetry, including the hitherto unpublished ‘Julian and Maddalo’, together with translations of Goethe and Calderón, and unfinished compositions such as ‘The Triumph of Life’ and ‘Charles the First’.



The Shelley Conference 2024 celebrates the first collected volume of Shelley’s poetry. Posthumous Poems is the product of collaborations. The most significant of these is between Mary Shelley as editor and Shelley as poet, but they also occur between Shelley and the guarantors of the volume, including Bryan Waller Procter (‘Barry Cornwall’) and Thomas Lovell Beddoes. The conference also addresses ideas of posterity and reception more generally in Shelley scholarship, the range of literary forms collected in a single volume, and the complex collaborative literary relationships that shaped Shelley’s life and endured after his death.



The conference will be held at Keats House Museum in Hampstead, London. Proposals should be in the form of 200-word abstracts for 15-minute papers. Please include a 100-word biography with your proposal.



Papers are invited on themes including, but not limited to:



● Posthumous Poems, its texts and history

● New readings of key poems and of Posthumous Poems as a collection

● Mary Shelley as editor

● Posterity and futurity as themes in Shelley’s work

● Texts in dialogue with Shelley’s work, particularly by those in his circle who survived him

● Shelley’s engagement with Europe and European literature

● The nature and limits of the collaborative process

● Shelley’s reception outside of Britain or in languages other than English

● Shelley and Byron

● Shelley and piracy



Deadline: Please email proposals in Word to shelleyconference@gmail.com by Monday 29 January 2024.



Bursaries: Several bursaries will be available for postgraduate and early-career researchers presenting papers. Please visit the conference website for details. To apply, please add ‘Bursary’ to your email subject.



Keynote Speaker: Dr Ross Wilson (Cambridge)

Plenary Speakers: Professor Nora Crook (Anglia Ruskin); Dr Bysshe Inigo Coffey (Oxford);

Dr Madeleine Callaghan (Sheffield)

Pre-Conference Lecture (27 June): Professor Mark Sandy (Durham)



Conference Website: theshelleyconference.com / facebook.com/shelleyconference / Twitter: @shelleyconf





Conference Organisers: Dr Amanda Blake Davis (Derby); Dr Andrew Lacey (Lancaster); Dr Merrilees Roberts (QMUL);

Dr Paul Stephens (Oxford). Postgraduate Helpers: Lydia Shaw (Durham); Keerthi Vasishta (Durham).



Advisory Board: Dr Will Bowers (QMUL), Dr Bysshe Inigo Coffey (Oxford); Dr Anna Mercer (Cardiff);

Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi (UCL); Professor Michael Rossington (Newcastle).




Last updated August 8, 2023

Frankenstein and the Fantastic 2018 Session

A much belated posting. 

The third of our Frankenstein at 200 commemorative sessions runs today at the meeting of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association. Full panel details follow.

40th Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Worcester State University (Worcester, Massachusetts)

19-20 October 2018

Friday, 19 October at 2-3:15

Session 2: Frankenstein 1818 to 2018: 200 Years of Mad Scientists and Monsters I (S-205)

Chair: Saraliza Anzaldua (UCLA)

Frankenstein: A Personal History

Daniel Shank Cruz (Utica College)

Daniel Shank Cruz grew up in New York City and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Goshen College (B.A.) and Northern Illinois University (M.A., Ph.D.) and is currently an Associate Professor of English at Utica College in upstate New York. Daniel is the author of Queering Mennonite Literature, which is forthcoming from Penn State University Press in spring 2019. He has also published articles on a variety of contemporary North American authors in journals such as Crítica Hispánica, Mennonite Quarterly Review, the Journal of Mennonite Writing, and the Journal of Contemporary Thought, as well as in several book collections. His research interests include the intersections between ethnic minority literatures (especially Mennonite literature and Latinx literature) and queer literatures, archiving, and the role of geographical space in literature.

Looking at Frankenstein: Ten Filmmakers Capture the Monster

James Osborne (College of Saint Rose)

James Osborne teaches writing and film in the Department of English at the College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Arizona, an MA in English from Brooklyn College/CUNY, and a BA in English, with Dramatic Arts as a related field, from the University of Connecticut. His principal area of academic research is in adaptation studies, an interest explored in his dissertation, “Looking at Frankenstein: Ten Film Visions of Mary Shelley’s Novel, 1990-2015.” He lives in Albany, New York, with his wife Denise, a lecturer in Portuguese at the University at Albany.

Frankenstein and Transatlantic Monster Making in Robert J. Myer’s The Cross of Frankenstein (1975)

Matt Grinder (Union Institute and University)

Matt Grinder is a PhD Candidate at Union Institute and University where he studies literature and culture with an emphasis on Native American Literature.  He also works as an English and Philosophy adjunct faculty member at Central Maine Community College.

Friday, 19 October at 3:30-4:45

Session 10: Frankenstein 1818 to 2018: 200 Years of Mad Scientists and Monsters II (S-205)

Chair: Marty Norden (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

New Adam, New Eve: The Brides of Frankenstein in Theodore Roszak’s Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1986) and John Kessel’s Pride and Prometheus (2018)

Faye Ringel (U. S. Coast Guard Academy, Emerita)

Faye Ringel, the founder of the Fantastic Area, is Professor Emerita of English at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT, having taught in the Department of Humanities for 25 years. She directed the Honors Program and taught the Honors Colloquium, composition and literature.  After retiring from CGA, she taught British Literature at UConn Avery Point. Faye holds an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Brandeis University and doctorate in Comparative Literature from Brown University. She is the author of New England's Gothic Literature: History and Folklore of the Supernatural (E. Mellen Press, 1995) and articles in scholarly encyclopedias, collections, and journals, including  a chapter in The Cambridge Companion to the American Gothic (2017) edited by Jeffrey Weinstock. Faye is a long-time NEPCA member and presenter, and she has published articles and presented conference papers on (among many other subjects) New England vampires, urban fantasy, demonic cooks, Lovecraft, King, Tolkien, Yiddish folklore, and sea music.

Frankenstein’s Justine Moritz: The Female Monster and Her Body

Saraliza Anzaldua (UCLA)

Saraliza Anzaldua, a frequent presenter in the Fantastic Area, is a teratologist with a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Texas, Dallas and an M.A. in English Literature from National Taiwan University. She is currently a doctoral student with the philosophy department of UCLA. Her work is devoted to promoting teratology as a framework for social theory and moral inquiry. She also studies Chinese social philosophy, and Japanese martial philosophy.

CFP Natality vs Immortality: The Case of Frankenstein & The Creature Conference (10/1/2018; Cyprus)

Been meaning to post this since the summer. Would be a great opportunity, if it was closer. (Why are all the cool conferences outside the US?)

Natality vs Immortality: The Case of Frankenstein & The Creature
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/28/natality-vs-immortality-the-case-of-frankenstein-the-creature

deadline for submissions:
October 1, 2018


full name / name of organization:
University of Cyprus


contact email:
cyprusfrankenreads@gmail.com



Papers are invited on any theme arising from the novel. We especially welcome papers investigating the novel and its adaptations in any medium that focus on contrasting perspectives and discourses of the quest for the origin, meaning and purpose of life. This is an invitation for posters, 20-minute papers or alternative/experimental presentations. Place and dates of symposium: University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 30 November-1 December 2018. Deadline for proposals 01 October 2018. Please send 200 word proposals to: cyprusfrankenreads@gmail.com. Speakers will be notified by 08 October 2018. Conference Coordinators: Evy Varsamopoulou (evyvarsa@ucy.ac.cy) and Olga Michael (olgamichael86@gmail.com).

Last updated July 30, 2018

CFP Frankenstein Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring Mary Shelley and Gothic Legacies (6/29/2018; Bournemouth 10/31-11/01/2018)

Finally, a call that is current (though only barely):


Frankenstein Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring Mary Shelley and Gothic Legacies
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/05/03/frankenstein-unbound-an-interdisciplinary-conference-exploring-mary-shelley-and

deadline for submissions: June 29, 2018

full name / name of organization: Arts University Bournemouth

contact email: frankensteinunboundconference@gmail.com



DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS EXTENDED: 29th June 2018

Dates: Wednesday 31 October and Thursday 1 November 2018

Venues: Conference - St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth



Keynote Speakers:

Sir Christopher Frayling, Chancellor, Arts University Bournemouth

Professor Elaine Graham, University of Chester

Professor Sir Peter Cooke, CRAB Studios (TBC)



In 1849, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley’s heart were brought to the graveyard of St. Peter’s Church in Bournemouth, where they were buried with the remains of Mary Shelley’s parents Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin.

In 2018, Arts University Bournemouth and St. Peter’s Church, in association with Bournemouth University, celebrate the bicentenary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s most famous work Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818) as part of the Shelley Frankenstein Festival. The academic conference, located at this unique venue, will offer new and re-situated perspectives on Mary Shelley and her writings, her family and circle, and her most famous work. We are pleased to acknowledge colleagues at Bournemouth University for their organisational support.

We invite papers and presentations themed around, but not limited to, the following:

• Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and the Romantics
• Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
• Mary Shelley beyond Frankenstein
• The Shelley family: history and legacy
• Monstrous Romantics
• Frankenstein and the sea
• Theology and Frankenstein
• Frankenstein and philosophy
• Frankenstein at home and abroad
• Adaptations and afterlives
• Frankenstein and medical humanities
• The abject and the sublime
• Frankenstein and emotion
• Guilt and crime in Frankenstein
• Interpretations of Frankenstein in the creative industries (Film, Art, Theatre, Dance, Writing etc)
• Mary Shelley and Gothic legacies
• Gothic architecture
• The Gothic imagination

We welcome proposals for themed panel sessions (maximum three papers), individual twenty-minute presentations, or creative submissions from practitioners and scholars of all fields. We particularly encourage submissions from post-graduate students and Early Career Researchers. Please submit an abstract (300 words) and short biography (100 words) to frankensteinunboundconference@gmail.com by Friday 29th June 2018.

For more information and updates visit our website: https://frankensteinunbound.wordpress.com/.

CFP Frankenstein: Two Hundred Years of Monsters Conference (expired)

Came across this by accident today; sadly, it is also expired.

Frankenstein: Two Hundred Years of Monsters
http://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/frankenstein-two-hundred-years-monsters


- Call for Papers -

Frankenstein 2018: Two Hundred Years of Monsters

12 ‐ 15 September 2018
The Australian National University and the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra


Nearly two centuries after its anonymous publication on 1 January 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus remains as topical as ever. Its core story - of a recklessly ambitious and naïve scientist whose artificial, human-like creature arouses only horror and disgust, and escapes control to seek revenge on his creator - has become, for better or worse, the techno‐scientific fable of modernity. First adapted for stage by Richard Brinsley Peake in 1823, and for film by Edison Studios in 1910, the story has inspired more theatre, film, television and other adaptations than any other modern narrative, with more than 50 screen adaptations appearing in the 2010s alone. From Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show to The Addams Family, the Frankenstein myth reaches into every recess of high and popular culture.

We invite proposals for 20-­minute papers or 3 x 20‐minute panel sessions from scholars across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences that respond in interdisciplinary ways to this most interdisciplinary of novels, including, but not limited to:

• Literary studies, especially of the long eighteenth century, Romanticism, Victorian and neo­‐Victorian literature
• Re-tellings and re-­‐imaginings of the Frankenstein story in various modes and genres, e.g. SF, steampunk, speculative fiction, slash fiction, etc.
• Film, television, theatre and performance, and visual studies
• Digital humanities, reception studies, histories of popular culture, and media ecologies
• Gender studies, queer theory, and the history of sexuality
• Disability studies and post‐humanism
• The history of medicine, especially reproductive technologies
• Science and technology studies; images and imaginaries of science and scientists
• The history and philosophy of biology, especially in relation to vitalism
• Eco‐criticism and the Anthropocene
• Affect theory and the history of emotions
• Frankenstein and race, colonialism, empire
• Global and local Frankensteins, e.g. Australian Frankensteins
• Frankenstein and material history
• Cyborgs, robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
• Synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and artificial life

To maintain order among this menagerie of monsters, we propose the following four overarching themes, each of which will be addressed by one of our keynote speakers:

Frankenstein in 1818: historicising the monster
(Professor Sharon Ruston, Lancaster)

Frankenstein as scientific fable: from grave-­‐robbing and galvanism to synthetic biology and machine learning
(Professor Genevieve Bell, Australian National University)

Adaptation and experimentation: Frankenstein in film and other media
(Assistant Professor Shane Denson, Stanford)

Frankenstein’s queer family: gender, sexuality, reproduction and the work of care
(Professor Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara)


Please send proposals for papers or sessions - including a title, 250­‐word abstract, and brief author biography - to Dr Russell Smith at russell.smith@anu.edu.au.

The deadline for proposals is 6 April 2018. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee comprising scholars from the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, and applicants will be informed of the outcome within two weeks of the submission deadline. Please note that we will endeavour to notify overseas applicants earlier if they submit proposals before the submission deadline.

For further information and updates, as well as information about the Humanities Research Centre’s annual theme for 2018, Imagining Science and Technology 200 Years after Frankenstein, see here.

Please direct any inquiries to Penny Brew at hrc@anu.edu.au.

CFP Of 'Gods and Monsters': Shelley's Frankenstein Two Hundred Years On (expired)

Not sure how I missed posting this sooner:

Of 'Gods and Monsters': Shelley's Frankenstein Two Hundred Years On
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/10/24/of-gods-and-monsters-shelleys-frankenstein-two-hundred-years-on

deadline for submissions: January 15, 2018

full name / name of organization: Roger Stanley/Southeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature

contact email: rstanley@uu.edu



Of ‘Gods and Monsters’: Shelley’s Frankenstein Two Hundred Years On

Southeast Conference on Christianity and Literature

19-21 April 2018

Union University

Jackson, Tennessee


Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Christina Bieber Lake, Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English, Wheaton College

Prophets of the Posthuman: American Literature, Biotechnology and the Ethics ofPersonhood

(Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2013)

Dr. Bieber Lake is also the author of the book The Incarnational Art of Flannery O’Connor and many articles which have appeared in Books & Culture and elsewhere.


The primary theme of the convention will be a celebration of the bicentennial of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Union University itself envisions a campus-wide, interdisciplinary commemoration for the calendar year, though the focus for this conference will be, as always, on the intersection of theology and fiction.

Within the Frankenstein motif, possible topics and areas of interest include:

--Mary Shelley’s legacy in contemporary science fiction

---Creation: Human, subhuman and posthuman

--Narrative frames and the voice of the marginalized

--Science, technology, and the limitations of knowledge

--Maternity and paternity

--Idealized vs. “monstrous” femininity

--“Singularity” in terms of AI vs. human intelligence

--Revisions of Frankenstein in movies/pop culture


As always, SECCL is open to other proposals concerning the relationship of Christianity and literature. Abstracts from graduate students are also welcome. Undergraduates should send complete papers.

Send abstracts (400-500) words via email attachment to Prof. Roger Stanley, at rstanley@uu.edu . The submission deadline is January 15, 2018.

CFP The Silent Revolution Conference (6/30/2018; Lisbon 11/5-6/2018)

1818-2018 – the silent revolution: of fears, folly & the female
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/22/1818-2018-%E2%80%93-the-silent-revolution-of-fears-folly-the-female

deadline for submissions: June 30, 2018

full name / name of organization: Universidade Catolica Portuguesa

contact email: cecc@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt




1818-2018 – the silent revolution: of fears, folly & the female

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon

5-6 November 2018


In 2018 we celebrate events which took place two hundred years ago: the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the birth of Emily Brontë. While the two events are markedly different, as the former is a tangible work of art and the latter more of a promise of what was to come, both have contributed to challenge and change the conceptions and perceptions of the time, thus performing a silent, subtle revolution in the world of letters.


Shelley and Brontë are mostly famous for one novel each, but these novels have helped shape Western imagination and literature, as they arguably ‘disclose uncommon powers of poetic imagination’, as Walter Scott said a propos Shelley’s oeuvre [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 2 (March 1818)].


By focusing on characters who do not belong anywhere – ‘I am an unfortunate and deserted creature; I look around, and I have no relation or friend upon earth’ (Shelley, 2004: 160) and ‘Not a soul knew to whom it [Heathcliff] belonged’ (Brontë, 1965: 78) –, both novels seem to question the hegemonic discourse of the time. As such, their global appeal may precisely reside in their radical difference and ‘unbelonging’ (Rushdie, 2013), which, paradoxically, make them potential sites for multiple identifications – the female, the savage, the foreigner.


This conference brings the two female authors together, for their œuvres, as different as they are, may shed light on a topic that resonates nowadays – how gender impacts on authorship, imagination, and a sense of humanity. If, as Woolf claims, ‘women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man as twice its natural size’ (Woolf, 2000: 45), is it entirely possible that women authors have resorted to the misshapen, dark, monstrous Other as alter egos of their own perception of themselves and their place in society?


The conference wishes to be a locus of celebration and discussion, both by placing the authors in the context of their time (coeval artists and ideas), and by displacing them and investigating their impact on literature and other media (music, cinema, videogames, etc.). By rereading the works critically in the context of a 200-hundred-year time lapse, the conference aims to look at the texts as clues ‘to how we live, how we have been living, how we have been led to imagine ourselves, how our language has trapped as well as liberated us, how the very act of naming has been till now a male prerogative, and how we can begin to see and name – and therefore live – afresh’ (Rich, 1979: 35).



Papers on the following topics are welcome:

• Male privilege in literature: revising concepts of authority and authorship
• Female gaze and the imagination
• 19th-century language, gender and cultural filters
• Concepts of human being, humanity, humanness and ‘technogenesis’
• Displacement and replacement as male anxieties
• 1st-person narration: giving voice and / or visibility to ghosts, monsters and waifs
• The impact of Shelly and Brontë in English-speaking and world literature
• Pseudonymity and power
• The monster within: representations of (female) fear and folly in literature
• ‘Savagery’ at the heart of Europe and the ideal of la mission civilisatrice
• Siting contestation: literature on progress and knowledge
• Is Gothic literature female?
• Translating ‘strangeness’ into different languages and / or media
• The afterlife of Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights in art and pop culture
• Fandom and the Gothic experience

Keynote speakers:

Luísa Leal Faria (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England – Bristol)




Click below for further information.

Romantic Assembly (2018 International Conference on Romanticism) (expired)

Sorry to have missed posting this earlier:


International Conference on Romanticism
Romantic Assembly
http://pearce.caah.clemson.edu/international-conference-romanticism/
October 25-28, 2018

From Bodies Assembled to Assembled Bodies

To acknowledge and celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, we invite reflection on the notion of assembly: from bodies assembled to assemblies of bodies. We look forward to paper proposals on related acts of embodiment, factory production, and political assembly (from the National Assembly during the French Revolution to the recent waves of public protest that embody the right to assemble enshrined in the US Constitution). We aim to look both backward and forward, and we invite all participants to explore what it means to assemble various and sundry things, even things we sometimes call persons.

Scholars working in any area of Romanticism are invited to submit proposals for the annual meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism (ICR) to be hosted by Clemson University and held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Greenville, South Carolina.


We have called this year’s conference “Romantic Assembly” to acknowledge and celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. We invite broad reflection on the notion of assembly and look forward to paper proposals on related acts of embodiment, factory production, and political assembly (from the National Assembly during the French Revolution to the recent waves of public protest that embody the right to assemble enshrined in the US Constitution). From bodies assembled to assemblies of bodies, we aim to look both backward and forward, and we invite all participants to explore what it means to assemble various and sundry things, even things we sometimes call persons.


We are excited to see the theme interpreted broadly and in ways we have not anticipated, but some possible modes of approach could include the following:

• Anthologies, literary history, and assembling Romantic texts
• Assembling words: rhetoric and form
• Assembly and the senses
• Bodies and embodiment
• Categories of knowledge as assemblies
• Disassembly, dissolution, fragmentation
• Genre as assembly
• Identity as assembly or assemblage
• Industrialization
• Military and martial assembly
• Nation formation
• Political assembly and acts of protest
• Romantic and post-Romantic philosophies and critical theories of assembly
• Romantic-era assemblies: Halls, Balls, Lectures, Schools
• Romantic systems
• Scientific assembly
• World-building

Deadline for presentation abstracts and complete panels or roundtables: April 1, 2018



The International Conference on Romanticism was founded in 1991 and aims to pursue the study of Romanticism across linguistic, national, and political disciplines. For more information please visit http://icr.byu.edu. Conference attendees and participants must be current members of ICR. Please visit http://icr.byu.edu/membership to become a member or renew your membership.

Frankenstein@200: 2018 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference (Stanford, CA 4/20-22/2018)

Another Frankenstein conference I never heard about:

Details:  http://med.stanford.edu/medicineandthemuse/events/HHC2018_FrankensteinAt200.html

Frankenstein@200

The 2018 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference will be held at Stanford University from April 20-22, 2018.

A celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through an exploration of medically-based ethical dilemmas and an examination of the relevance of Frankenstein in moral imagination today.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Alexander Nemerov
Professor, Art and Art History at Stanford University

Lester Friedman
Professor, Media and Society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Alvan Ikoku
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Medicine at Stanford University

Catherine Belling
Associate Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University

Important Dates

June 1, 2017: Call for proposals opens

Summer 2017: Conference registration opens

November 1, 2017: Deadline for proposals

December 1, 2017: Decisions communicated

April 20-22, 2018: Conference dates

 

Program for Why Frankenstein Matters at 200 (Rome 7/3-6/2018)

WHY FRANKENSTEIN MATTERS AT 200:
RETHINKING THE HUMAN THROUGH THE ARTS AND SCIENCES

Program: http://sites.nd.edu/operation-frankenstein/program/

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
ROME GLOBAL GATEWAY

3-6 JULY 2018
CO-ORGANIZERS:
Eileen Hunt Botting (Political Theory, University of Notre Dame)
Agustín Fuentes (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame)
Greg Kucich (English, University of Notre Dame)

Tuesday July 3
3-5pm                          Registration at Global Gateway. Please bring presentations on jump drives to load onto computer terminal for conference sessions.

Wednesday July 4
8-8:30am                     Coffee and Registration at Global Gateway
8:30am                        Welcome and Opening Remarks by Co-organizers & Giuseppe Albano, Director, Keats-Shelley House, Rome

9-10:30am                  PANEL
“It was on a dreary night of November”:
AESTHETICS AND IMAGINATIONS
Joyce Carol Oates (Creative Writing, Princeton University)
“Frankenstein and ‘Monstrous Imagination’”
David Archard (Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast)
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Evil and Monstrosity”
Steven B. Smith (Political Theory, Yale University)
“Emile, Frankenstein, and the Ethics of Science and the Scientific Imagination”
Chair: Eileen Hunt Botting (Political Theory, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Three 20-minute papers followed by 30-minute discussion with audience

10:30-11am                 Coffee Break in Global Gateway

11am-12:30pm           PANEL
“The accomplishment of my toils”:
SAVAGES, SCIENTISTS, AND THE (NON)HUMAN
Susan Wolfson (English, Princeton University)
“Reading at the Limits: Frankenstein and the ‘Savage Man’”
Peta Katz and Jonathan Marks (Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
“Frankenstein and the moral dimension of life science”
Tracy Betsinger (Anthropology, SUNY-Oneonta)
“Frankenstein’s Creature and Vampires: Embodiments of Fear”
Chair: Greg Kucich (English, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Three 20-minute papers then 30-minute discussion with audience

12:30-2:30pm              Lunch Break in Rome

2:30-5pm                    ROUNDTABLE AND FILM SCREENING
“I collected the instruments of life around me”:
RACE, GENDER, AND (RE)PRODUCTION
Elizabeth Young (English and Gender Studies, Mt. Holyoke College)
“Black Frankenstein at 200”
Alan Coffee (Political Theory, King’s College London)
“Slave Narrative and (or in) Frankenstein”
Serena Baiesi (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Bologna)
“Strange, supernatural, and necromantic adventure”: Mary Shelley’s gothic stories and the inherence of Frankenstein”
Ronald Levao (English, Rutgers University)
“Meta-Cinematic Metaphors in James Whale’s Films”
Chair: Devi Snively (Independent Filmmaker)
Format: Four 15-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with the audience 

4-4:15pm        Break

4:15-5pm        SCREENING OF “BRIDE OF FRANKIE” (2017),
an independent film directed by Devi Snively and produced by Agustín Fuentes
Format: screening of short film “Bride of Frankie,” followed by 25 minutes of discussion with director, producer, and audience. 

5-6:30pm                     Rooftop Reception in Global Gateway


Thursday July 5

8:30-9am                     Coffee at Global Gateway

9-10:30am                  ROUNDTABLE
“The lifeless thing that lay at my feet”:
THE CORPOREAL IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
Timothy Morton (English, Rice University)
“What Was That Again about Frankenstein and Ecology?”
Lilla Crisafulli (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Bologna)
“From the Physiognomic Body to the Problematic Self in Frankenstein”
Gudrun Grabher (American Studies and Medical Humanities, University of Innsbruck)
“Levinas and the Ethical Challenges of Frankenstein’s Monster”
Nancy Hirschmann (Political Theory, University of Pennsylvania)
“Logos and Soma in Frankenstein”
Chair: Essaka Joshua (English and Disability Studies, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Four 15-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

10:30-11am                 Coffee Break in Global Gateway

11-12:30pm                PANEL
“The detested shore”:
RACE AND THE IRISH FRANKENSTEIN
~~ Keough Global Seminar Session ~~
James Chandler (English, University of Chicago)
“A race of devils”?  What to Make of the Irish Episode
Julie Kipp (English, Holy Cross College)
“Frankenstein, the Shelley Circle, and Radical Politics in Ireland”
Claire Connolly (Modern English, University College Cork)
“Archipelagic Frankenstein? Sea Crossings, Scale, and National Culture”
Chair: Chris Fox (University of Notre Dame, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies)
Format: Three 20-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

12:30-2:30pm              Lunch Break in Rome

2:30-4pm                    ROUNDTABLE
“That I might infuse a spark of being”:
ELECTRICITY, LABOUR, MACHINES, AND AI
Charles Gross (Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton University)
“Electricity and Biology in Frankenstein”
Sylvana Tomaselli (History and Political Thought, University of Cambridge)
“Labour of Love”
Aku Visala (Theology, University of Helinski)
“Where Does the Buck Stop? On the Responsibility of Artificial Beings and their Creators”
Scott Reents (Data Analytics and E-Discovery, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP)
“Frankenjustice: Artificial Intelligence, Reason-Giving, and the Transparency of Law”
Chair: Agustín Fuentes (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Four 15-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

4-5:30pm                     STUDENT POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION
Chair: Neil Delaney (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Undergraduate and graduate students from Notre Dame will be available to discuss their research posters on Frankenstein and its legacies


Friday July 6

8:30-9am                     Coffee in Global Gateway

9-10:30am                  ROUNDTABLE
“I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open”:
(RE)ANIMATION, GENETICS, AND EVOLUTION
Anne K. Mellor (English, UCLA)
“Mothering Monsters: Frankenstein and Genetic Engineering”
Eileen Hunt Botting (Political Theory, University of Notre Dame)
“Hearing the Creature: Articulating the Child’s Right to be Genetically Modified.”
Eben Kirksey (Anthropology, University of New South Wales, Australia)
“CRISPR Trans-Migrations: Gene Editing and Consumer Choices”
Blaine Maley (Anthropology and Anatomy, Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine)
“Transplants, Xenotransplants, and the Prescience of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Agustín Fuentes (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame)
“We are all composite creatures: evolution, genetics, ancestry, and false narratives of lineage purity in human becoming ”
Chair: Holly Goodson (Molecular and Cell Biology and Biophysics, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Five 12-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

10:30-11am                 Coffee Break in Global Gateway

11-12:30pm                PANEL
“I am a traveller”:
REFUGEES AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Mary Jacobus (English, University of Cambridge)
“Translating Inhospitality: Migration, Monstrosity, and the Other”
Franca Dellarosa (Department of Letters, Language, and Arts, University of Bari Aldo Moro)
“Frankenstein and the ‘perplexities of the rights of man’”
Marina Calloni (Social and Political Philosophy, University of Milano-Bicocca)
“Protecting Unaccompanied Minors.”
Chair: Monika Nalepa (Political Science, University of Chicago)
Format: Three 20-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

12:30-2:30pm              Lunch Break in Rome

2:30-4pm                    ROUNDTABLE
“I had no choice but to adapt my nature”:
PRESUMPTION, ADAPTATION, AND NEW PERSPECTIVES
Greg Kucich (English, University of Notre Dame)
“Peake’s Presumption of 1823”
Jeffrey N. Cox (English, University of Colorado-Boulder)
“Melodramatic Frankenstein:  Radical Content in a Reactionary Form”
Stuart Curran (English, University of Pennsylvania)
“Frankenstein and the Monstrosity of Literary Criticism”
David Punter (English, University of Bristol)
“Frankenstein in Baghdad”
Anton Juan (Film, Television, and Theatre, University of Notre Dame)
“Staging Presumption: Contemporizing the Creature”
Chair: Yasmin Solomonescu (English, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Five 12-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

4-5:30pm                     Closing Reception in Courtyard of Global Gateway

Why Frankenstein Matters at 200: Rethinking the Human through the Arts and Sciences Conference (Rome 7/4-6/2018)

Another conference outside the US:

Why Frankenstein Matters at 200: Rethinking the Human through the Arts and Sciences, July 4-6, 2018
http://sites.nd.edu/operation-frankenstein/

This bicentennial conference on the persisting cultural and scientific impact of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein will take place July 4-6, 2018 at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway facility, adjacent to the Coliseum. The conference will bring together a group of distinguished scholars (30-35) from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds across the sciences, humanities, and arts to interact on the continuing urgency of Frankenstein—the most widely taught novel worldwide at the university level—for a broad spectrum of pressing concerns in such fields as bioethics, genetics, artificial intelligence, evolutionary theory, environmental studies, race relations and colonialism, literary and theater studies, human rights, refugee studies, gender studies, disability studies, philosophy, and religious studies.

The organizing theme of this event considers how Shelley’s gripping  novel, and its many theatrical and screen adaptations over the years, have shaped or may shape our evolving comprehension of the human experience, especially in relation to art, culture, science, technology, ethics, and politics most broadly conceived.

The finalized conference line-up of speakers features, among other leading writers, Joyce Carol Oates and includes the following speakers:  Stuart Curran, Anne Mellor, Jeffrey Cox, Timothy Morton, David Punter, Mary Jacobus, James Chandler, Susan Wolfson, Serena Baiese, and Claire Connolly (literary studies and Romanticism); Steven B. Smith, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Marina Calloni, and David Archard (philosophy an
d political theory); Monika Nalepa (political science); Franca Dellarosa (comparative literature); Elizabeth Young, Ron Leavao, and Devi Snively (film studies); Eben Kirksey, Jon Marks, and Tracey Betsinger (anthropology); Charles Gross (neuroscience); Sylvana Tomaselli (history); Lilla Maria Crisafulli (gender studies) and Holly Goodson (molecular and cell biology).
Conference activities will also include a new feminist film adaptation of Frankenstein.
The University of Notre Dame conference organizational team represents the interdisciplinary dynamic of this event:  Eileen Hunt Botting (Political Science); Agustin Fuentes (Anthropology); Anton Juan (Film, Television, and Theater); Greg Kucich (English), and Devi Snively (Independent Filmmaker/Anthropology).

CFP The Fates of Frankenstein Conference (4/30/2018; Edinburgh 11/23-24/2018)

Travel grant, please: 

The Fates of Frankenstein

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/01/24/the-fates-of-frankenstein

deadline for submissions: 

April 30, 2018

full name / name of organization: 

Edinburgh Napier University

contact email: 

frankensteinat200@gmail.com

Call for papers
Conference: The Fates of Frankenstein
23-24 November 2018, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

2018 sees a flourishing crop of events commemorating, one way or another, the bicentenary of Frankenstein’s publication. The Fates of Frankenstein is a two-day conference about adaptations and appropriations of Shelley’s novel.

The fate of Frankenstein and his monstrous creation has been to outlive their original context. Indeed, Frankenstein almost immediately escaped its book covers into Richard Brinsley Peake’s 1823 stage adaptation, Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein. Two hundred years later, Shelley’s compelling tale has given rise to what Audrey Fisch describes as a ‘panoply of manifestations and permutations’ in popular culture.

This conference explores Frankenstein’s myriad cultural fates, in which it not only inspires new narratives and creative works but is also widely invoked by the media and in a range of social and scientific contexts. Over two anything-but-dreary days in November, the conference will take stock of the ways in which Frankenstein remains very much alive in 2018, and of trends and innovations in its adaptations, retellings, and reuses in the last two centuries.

Confirmed speakers: Nick Dear, playwright; Professor Catherine Spooner, Lancaster University; Dr Daniel Cook, University of Dundee.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Frankenstein on television, in films, on stage
• Frankenstein for young readers and viewers, in children’s literature, in YA
• Frankenstein art, craft, fashion
• Fandom, fan studies, fan fiction
• Genre treatments: Gothic, horror, weird, SF, comedy, romance
• Interdisciplinary Frankensteins: medical humanities, environmental humanities, digital humanities
• Frankenstein and the social sciences
• Frankenstein and the life sciences
• Frankenstein in technology, robotics, AI
• Frankenstein metaphors
• Frankenstein in the news, in politics, in social media
• Frankenstein in science communication
• Graphic novels
• Cartoons, animations
• Creative writing
• Music, soundtracks, performance

We welcome proposals for traditional 20-minute papers, and also encourage pre-formed panels, round tables, performances, workshops (or other appropriate format).

Please send proposals of around 250 words plus a short biography to the conference organisers Sarah Artt and Emily Alder at frankensteinat200@gmail.com by 30 April 2018.

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CFP Dangerous Knowledge: 2018 PEAKS Interdisciplinary Conference (expired; Arizona 2/9/2018)

Sorry to have missed posting this:


Dangerous Knowledge: 2018 PEAKS Interdisciplinary Conference at Northern Arizona University
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/01/15/deadline-extended-dangerous-knowledge

deadline for submissions: 

January 22, 2018

 

full name / name of organization: 

Northern Arizona University's Graduate English Organization

 

contact email: 

peaksconference@gmail.com

 

Keynote Speaker: Salvador Plascencia, author of The People of Paper

Conference Date: Friday, February 9, 2018

Contact Email: peaksconference@gmail.com

As an interdisciplinary conference, PEAKS encourages and accepts research from a wide range of scholarly and creative disciplines such as literature, linguistics, rhetoric, education, creative writing, history, art history, musicology, women and gender studies, film studies, science, philosophy, psychology, communications, and much more!  


Dangerous Knowledge: 2018 PEAKS Interdisciplinary Conference at Northern Arizona University 
EXTENDED Deadline for Submissions: January 22, 2018
Full Name/ Name of Organization: NAU's Graduate English Organization
Contact Email: peaksconference@gmail.com
Keynote Speaker: Salvador Plascencia, Harvey Mudd College, author of The People of Paper
Conference Date and Time

• Friday, February 9, 2018
• Panels and Presentations: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Keynote Address: 6:30 p.m.

Is knowledge dangerous? Under what circumstances does knowledge aid or hinder the individual? The community? What is the relationship between knowledge and progress; stagnation; desire? What does knowledge perpetuate? To honor the elements of language, communication, “otherness,” science and science-fiction, nature, psychology, history, and much more, and to discuss the implications of knowledge, the 2018 PEAKS Interdisciplinary Conference would like to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In that spirit, PEAKS encourages submissions on the novel, the novel’s histories and themes, adaptations (film, print, other media), and Frankenstein and his creature as cultural icons. Topics not related to this year’s theme are also welcome!

As an interdisciplinary conference, PEAKS encourages 15-20 minute papers from a wide range of scholarly and creative disciplines such as literature, linguistics, rhetoric, education, creative writing, history, art history, musicology, women and gender studies, film studies, psychology, and communications. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Postcoloniality and “Otherness”
• Science, Pseudoscience, and Science Fiction
• Nature and Natural Sciences
• Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, and Gender Studies
• Quest for Knowledge; or, Dangerous Knowledge
• Existence and Consciousness
• Revenge and Revenge Narratives
• “Birth” Myths and Family Studies
• Construction and Creation Studies 
• History and Historical Narratives
• Philosophy, Morality, and Ethics
• Image, Ego, and Formation of Identity
• Language and Communication
• Imaginary Geographics

Types of Presentations: 

• Individual Paper (8-10 pages, 15-20 minutes with Q & A) 
• Research Project (15-20 minutes with Q & A) 
• Creative Writing (15-20 minutes with Q & A) 
• Panels (3-4 Presenters) (60-90 minutes)  

Please submit proposals of no more than 250 words along with a brief, 50 words or less, description of the paper to be used on the conference website. Use the “Submit” link on peaksconference.weebly.com by the extended deadline: January 22, 2018.

Direct Link for Submission: https://peaksconference.weebly.com/submit.html
Contact Email: peaksconference@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/GraduateEnglishOrganization

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CFP Bicentenary Conference on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (11/1/2017; Venice 2/21-22/2017)

Sorry to have missed this; the search engine for the U Penn CFP is a bit buggy:


The Bicentenary Conference on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/08/18/the-bicentenary-conference-on-mary-shelleys-frankenstein

deadline for submissions: November 1, 2017

full name / name of organization: University of Venice, Italy

contact email: maria.parrino@unive.it



Call for papers

International Conference, Venice, 21-22 February 2018

University of Venice – Cà Foscari



The Bicentenary Conference on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Ever since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was first published (1818), the story of the scientist and the Creature has been constantly and widely told, discussed, adapted, filmed, and translated, making generations of readers approach the novel in an extraordinary variety of ways and languages. The myth of the ‘modern Prometheus’ which Mary Shelley invented has been passed down throughout the centuries and morphed into countless shapes and figures contributing to the enhancement of the original text.

If first-time readers are surprised to discover that Frankenstein is not the name of the monster, and that in fact the monster has no name, all readers are given the opportunity to discover that the novel is a sort of encyclopedia, a text which explores different disciplines, from science to sociology, from psychology to medicine, from history to geography. Moreover, the numerous critical approaches to the text, varying from psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, deconstructionist, to ecocritic, all point out the multi-faceted features of the novel.

Although it is difficult to add new and original interpretations of Frankenstein, the pressure and the pleasure to celebrate the novel remains strong and authentic. In this spirit, the conference welcomes participants to share old and new interpretations, and contributes to the promotion of the worldwide events which will be held in 2018, all paying tribute to what is unarguably one of the most famous novels in world literature. When Mary Shelley, in her long Introduction to the1831 edition, wrote about the ‘invention’ of Frankenstein, she did not know that two hundred years later others would enjoy ‘moulding and fashioning’ her original idea, fulfilling the writer’s wish for her ‘hideous progeny [to] go forth and prosper’.

This conference aims to explore, analyse, and debate Mary Shelley’s novel and bicentenary, its reception in European culture and its influence on the media.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Frankenstein: the 1818 and 1831 version
• Mary Shelley’s biography
• Frankenstein and translations
• Frankenstein and multilingualism
• Multicultural Frankenstein
• Frankenstein and the visual arts
• Frankenstein and films
• Frankenstein and adaptations
• The reception of Frankenstein
• Teaching Frankenstein
• Publishing Frankenstein

Papers may be given in English, Italian, French and Spanish. Please send 200 words abstract for a 20-minute paper to Michela Vanon Alliata, Alessandro Scarsella and Maria Parrino at frankensteinvenice@libero.it by 1 November 2017.



Scientific committee

Michela Vanon Alliata, Università di Venezia

Alessandro Scarsella, Università di Venezia

Maria Parrino, Università di Venezia


Last updated August 21, 2017

CFP 200 Years of the Fantastic: Celebrating Frankenstein and Mary Shelley (10/31/2017; ICFA 3/14-18/2018)

Finally available:

CfP: “200 Years of the Fantastic: Celebrating Frankenstein and Mary Shelley,” ICFA 39, March 14-18, 2018
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2017/cfp-200-years-of-the-fantastic-celebrating-frankenstein-and-mary-shelley-icfa-39-march-14-18-2018/
Posted on August 25, 2017 by Skye Cervone

Please join us for ICFA 39, March 14-18, 2018, when our theme will be “200 Years of the Fantastic: Celebrating Frankenstein and Mary Shelley.”

We welcome papers on the work of: Guest of Honor John Kessel (Nebula, Locus and Tiptree Award winner), Guest of Honor Nike Sulway (Tiptree and Queensland award winner; nominee for Aurealis and Crawford awards), and Guest Scholar Fred Botting (Professor, Kingston University London; author of Making Monstrous: “Frankenstein”, Criticism, Theory; Gothic; and Limits of Horror).

Mary Shelley and her Creature have had a pervasive influence on the fantastic. Brian Aldiss famously proclaimed Frankenstein as the first science fiction novel, fusing the investigation of science with the Gothic mode. Its myriad adaptation on stage, in film and beyond have continually reinvented Shelley’s tale for contemporary audiences, from James Whale’s iconic 1931 film through Showtime’s Penny Dreadful (2014-16). Frankenstein exists in many avatars and many languages. Its central invention of the scientifically created being has become a staple of the fantastic imaginary from Asimov’s robots through Ava in Ex Machina (Alex Garland 2014) or Samantha in Her (Spike Jonze 2013). Shelley Jackson’s early hypertext Patchwork Girl (1995) and Danny Boyle’s innovatively staged version of Nick Dear’s play both shows us how Frankenstein continues to push us toward innovations in form, while the novel’s interest in themes of scientific responsibility, social isolation, and gender inequality remain sharply relevant. We invite papers that explore the many legacies of Frankenstein on fantastic genres, characters, images and modes, especially those that explore the ongoing importance of women’s contributions to them, beginning with Mary Shelley. We also welcome proposals for individual papers, academic sessions, creative presentations, and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media.

The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2017. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, graduate students, and artists.

To submit a proposal, go to http://www.fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/.

To contact the Division Heads for help with submissions, go to http://www.fantastic-arts.org/annual-conference/division-heads.

To download a copy of the CfP, please click here.