Here's
another call for papers that has been doing the rounds, this time for
an upcoming symposium to be held at Cambridge University.
“The
Alchemical Landscape: Counterculture, Occulture and the Geographic
Turn”
Corpus
Christi College, University of Cambridge, 23rd
March 2015. An
interdisciplinary symposium presented by the Cambridge University
Counterculture Research Group
"If
any one book put ley lines on the map, re-enchanted the British
landscape and made Glastonbury the capital of the New Age it was John
Michell's seminal 1969 tome The View Over Atlantis." ---Bob
Rickard, Fortean Times, 2009.
In
an age of vast ecological crisis and a widespread re-calibration of
the arts and humanities towards questions of eco-criticism, an
increasing number of writers, artists and film-makers are
re-investing the British landscape with esoteric and mythic imagery.
From the revival of 'Folk Horror' to the cross-over between magical
and artistic practice, this 'enchanted' representation of the rural
works as both a link to the past and an articulation of pressing
contemporary concerns.
This
special one-day symposium at the University of Cambridge seeks to
explore the creative, aesthetic and political implications of this 'geographic
turn'. 300-word
proposals for presentations of up to 20 minutes are invited on any
aspect of this theme. Possible
topics could include but are not limited to:
300-word
proposals for presentations of up to 20 minutes are invited on any
aspect of this theme.
Possible
topics could include but are not limited to:
*
John Michell, T.C. Lethbridge, J.A Baker, T.H. White, Helen
Macdonald, Paul Devereux, Andrew Collins, Sylvia Townsend Warner,
Alan Moore, Derek Jarman, Penny Slinger, Arthur Machen, Susan Cooper,
Alan Garner, Dennis Parry, Sven Berlin, Geraldine Monk, Michael
Bracewell, Gary Spencer Millidge, Alice Oswald, David Pinner, Diana
Durham, Charlotte Hussey, Brian Catling, Janni Howker.
*
English Heretic, Ghost Box, Drew Mulholland, Julian Cope, The Outer
Church, Pye Corner Audio, Matt Shaw, The Sinister Insult, Phil
Legard, The Geography Trip, The Wyrding Module, The Haunted
Shoreline, The House in the Woods, Wyrd England Gazetteer, The
Soulless Party, A Year in the Country, Wyrdstone, Scarfolk, The Old
Weird Albion, The Sons of T.C. Lethbridge, Psychic Field Recordings.
*
The Stone Tape, Children of the Stones, Quatermass and the Pit, A
Field in England, The Wicker Man, Blood on Satan's Claw, Antichrist,
Voodoo Science Park, Robinson in Ruins, On Vanishing Land, Cobra
Mist, The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, The Owl Service,
Robin Redbreast, Penda's Fen.
*
Mystical, visionary and imaginative landscapes, folklore, hauntology,
alternative nostalgia, psychogeography, speculative archaeology,
inner space, psychedelic pastoralism, the contemporary bucolic.
*
The creative potential of magical thinking, Fortean phenomena and
parapsychological practices: crop circles, dowsing, residual
haunting, remote viewing, geomancy.
Proposals
can be e-mailed to: thealchemicallandscape@gmail.com. Deadline:
5th January 2015. Please
include a short biographical note with your submission.
Yvonne
Salmon FRSA FRGS FRAI
Preceptor,
Corpus Christi College
Lecturer,
University of Cambridge
James
Riley FRSA
Fellow
of English
Corpus
Christi College
University
of Cambridge
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