[ANPPOM-L] CFP: Arts and Terror

[Carlos Palombini]

Arts and Terror
International Conference
School of Interdisciplinary Arts
College of Fine Arts
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio

      Ohio University School of Interdisciplinary Arts announces an
international conference on Arts and Terror to be held on May 15-17, 2009,
in Athens, Ohio, U.S.A.

      Arts and terror are no strangers to each other. Greek tragedy was
calculated to terrify. Medieval church-goers faced visions of the Last
Judgment as they were leaving after mass. Goya was haunted by the terror of
both war and his own fantasies. Today the horror film industry capitalizes
on such fantasies. The Nigerian artist Obiora Udechukwu's work bears witness
to the human devastation wreaked by contemporary conflict. On 9/11, terror
emerged as a defining force in political discourse and moved a major
avant-garde composer to evoke – scandalously – the sentiment of the sublime.

      The conference seeks to examine the relationship between arts and
terror through a wide range of disciplines in arts, humanities, and social
sciences. What is the nature of terror as it has found and continues to find
expression in the arts? How do experiences and representations of horror
vary across cultural and historical boundaries? What is the connection, if
any, between the terrible and the comical, fear and laughter? What are the
effects of recurring holocausts and terror campaigns on our artistic
sensibilities and projects? Conversely, does artistic engagement with the
experience of terror dispel or promote, neutralize or exacerbate our
fascination with the terrible? How are contemporary representations and
enactments of this fascination related to the aesthetic doctrines of "pity
and fear" and the romantic or postmodern sublime? Papers that deploy
interdisciplinary methodologies are particularly welcome.

      Submit a 250-word abstract by December 1, 2008. Selected presenters
will be notified by January 1, 2009. Papers must be no more than 20 minutes
in length. Panel proposals will be accepted. Please indicate if you are
willing to serve as a moderator on a panel.

      Plans for publication of conference proceedings are under
consideration.

Contact: Vladimir L. Marchenkov, School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Lindley
Hall 120, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, marchenk at ohio.edu

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