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Host: Kingston University London
Homepage: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/conferences/obsession_and_addiction/index.shtml
Email: fass-conferences@kingston.ac.uk
Organizers: Dr. Andrea Rinke Dr. Carrie Tarr
Deadline for abstracts: January 31, 2008
Description:
This international interdisciplinary conference on Obsession and Addiction aims to invite debate on representations of the emotional, psychological and physiological states of obsession and addiction, their causes and their consequences. Are obsession and addiction demonised, glamorised, ridiculed or normalised? How are readers and audiences disturbed, grabbed or ‘hooked’ as consumers? How are obsession and addiction linked to the creative process?
We welcome proposals on Fin de Siècle, 20th and 21st century depictions of obsession and addiction from a range of critical perspectives, and across a range of countries and cultures, both in the mainstream and in the fringe/underground. Panels will be grouped around shared interests or themes in the fields of art & design, drama, film & media, linguistics, literature and music. Topics will include but are not limited to:
• Images of obsession and addiction: from the margins to the mainstream
• The politics of representing obsession and addiction
• Theorising obsession and addiction
• Sex, gender and ‘race’ in relation to representations of obsession and
addiction
• Obsession and addiction in relation to artists and audiences
Mail Address:
Kingston University Penrhyn Road Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 2EE Tel: +44 (0)208 547 2000 Fax: +44 (0)208 547 7292
Submitted by: Lisa Hall
Date received: September 03, 2007, revised January 20, 2008
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