University College Cork: 29-30 October 2024
Deadline for Submissions: August 24th, 2024
Email: [email protected]
Twitter:@HauntedFutures
Proposals for presentations are now being invited for the second annual Haunted Futures Conference to be held on the 29th and 30th of October at University College Cork.
The conference proposes to explore hauntings and ghosts as potent staging grounds for radical social change, which, in their dismantling of hegemonic relationships to time, provide a means of imagining new futures in the late-capitalist Anthropocene, and empowering marginalised and exploited identities, both human and otherwise.
In addition to the above rubric, this year’s conference proposes to explore ‘The Future of Folklore’. We welcome papers which consider folklore beyond the parameters of historicity and preservation but contextualise folklore and folkloric texts as a vital, subversive and dynamic language of resistance to systemic injustice.
Proposed topics include, but are not limited to:
The intersection of folklore and spectrality; Radical Folklore; Folklore and Gender; Queer Folklore; Folklore and marginalisation; Urban Folklore; Folklore and Ecology; Postcolonial Folklores; Folk Horror; Folklore and Subversion; Digital Folklore; Ghosts and ecology; Ghosts and time; Queer hauntings; Ghosts and race; Ghosts and gender; Ghosts and postcolonialism; Ghosts and the archive;
Please note:
- The organisers are particularly interested in the work of postgraduate and early career researchers.
- There is no submission fee for this event.
- The organisers also encourage proposals for artistic or multimedia/practice based projects.
- This is an in-person event and submissions for remote presentations cannot be considered.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
A 300 to 500 word proposal, in Doc. or DocX format should be sent to Ellen and Rachel at [email protected] by the 24th of August, with the subject heading: Author’s Surname – Haunted Futures Abstract