call for papers

[Mark Troy]

There may be a few Scandinavian pynheads who may will find this useful:

Call for workshop organizers and topics:
Conference
Karlstad University
17-19 June, 2004

"Memory, Haunting, Discourse/Discourse, Haunting, Memory"

The department of English at Karlstad University, Sweden, invites 
workshop organizers and topics for an international, 
interdisciplinary conference with a focus on different relationships 
between discourse, memory and haunting. With this first call for 
papers we encourage researchers, teachers and students in different 
disciplines to help us shape this conference by sending in proposals 
for workshops and topics that, for instance, explore the impact of 
discourses on memory in literature, film, and psychology; the traces 
of a societal focus on trauma and collective memory in art, media and 
other discourses; the return or persistence of the Gothic; or the 
pervasiveness of ghosts and supernatural phenomena in film and 
literature today.

The suggestions above and the list below are meant to serve as 
triggers for brainstorming and a call for workshop organizers and 
topics. The conference organizers would be pleased to have workshops 
on these or other aspects of the conference's general themes.


 Exorcizing discourses: spectreless narratives

 Memory haunting her/story

 Gender haunting discourse

 Discourse haunting gender

 Construction through memory and language/discourse

 Narrative strategies of memory and/or trauma

 Institution haunting discourse

 Discourse haunting institutions

 "The ghost in the machine": haunting memories of earlier discourses

 Spectral interventions, interruptions, or eruptions

 Genre haunting discourse

Please send your suggestions to Maria Holmgren Troy, Karlstad 
University, Division for Culture and Communication, Department of 
English, 651 88 Karlstad, Sweden. Fax: + 46 54 700 14 32. E-mail: 
Maria.Holmgren.Troy at kau.se

Workshop proposals should include a short description of the topic 
(250-300 words) and the names and academic backgrounds of the 
organizers. Deadline: Workshop proposals received by March 15, 2003, 
stand the best chance of inclusion in the program.
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