29th Days of the Fantastic in Wetzlar
This year's days of fantasy in Wetzlar are devoted to the "Romantic women," the woman as author and subject of Romanticism to the romantic fantasy. The Symposium takes place from 10 - 13 September in the fantastic library instead. (Via www.phantastik.eu/ )
Bochum Colloquium "Monster"
Bochum's Ruhr-University is on the third and 4 July a colloquium on the subject Circle "Monster" instead. Others there are lectures on HP Lovecraft Chtulhu myth, the monstrous femininity of the Medusa, and the "ethical monstrance" in Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch. (Via H-Germanistik )
CFP: alterity and deviance
A Graduate Conference in Jena illuminates the figures of the other and absurd in philosophy and literature in 1800 (via H-Germanistik ).
Deadline: 31.7.2009
CfP: anthology of Neil Gaiman
At the University of South Carolina, contributions are invited to an anthology, the philosophical with the work of Neil Gaiman deal (via call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu ).
Deadline: 1 July 2009
CfP: Catholicism and the Fantastic
At Boston University created a collection of interweaving of fantasy and Catholicism (via call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu ).
Deadline: 15.9.2009
In Plain View
The Body as Site of Inscription and Detection in Serial Killer Narratives
An essay by Steffen Hantke
[This previously unpublished text has been kindly made available by the author]
