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Call for Papers: 7th Annual Conference
“Tracing the Goth/ic: Viewing Culture through Barbarism”
The Graduate Music Society of the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University would like to invite submissions for its 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference. This interdisciplinary conference will showcase the lens that ‘Gothic’ affords the humanities to view both themselves and each other. From the beautiful to the ridiculous, Gothic has meant many things over the past millennium. The aesthetic lens of the Gothic in 1853 was characterized by John Ruskin as Savageness, Changefulness, Naturalism, Grotesqueness, Rigidity, and Redundance. How, a century and a half later, do we use a ‘Gothic’ lens to view the world, past and present? We encourage papers from across discipline to explore the Gothic, with topics that could include (but not limited to) specific references to a Gothic aesthetic or topics more broadly connected to ideas of barbarity, such as otherness, deviance, exoticism, or colonialism. The format of the paper sessions will be in a seminar style, thus we ask that papers be pre-circulated two weeks in advance of the conference. Presenters will have a chance to briefly summarize their work with most of the session time devoted to discussion of the papers. The conference will take place February 8, 2014 at Boston University, with pre-conference activities the evening before. Abstracts of 250 words are due by Dec. 6 to Jeannette Jones, jonesj@bu.edu. Notifications of acceptances will be sent by Dec. 30
