Events

31 March 2008

Imagining Antarctica

Calls for papers

Call for conference papers
(4-6 September 2008, Christchurch)

A conference examining Antarctica from a cultural perspective. Drawing on the arts, social sciences and humanities, the conference will focus attention on the ways we perceive and represent the southernmost continent. This will be the first Humanities-based Antarctic studies conference and will be followed in 2010 by another at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. Keynote speakers will include: Elena Glasberg, Christy Collis, Francis Spufford, Klaus Dodds, Jonathan Lamb and Margaret Mahy.

Papers of twenty minutes with 10 minute question times are invited. Topics might include:

• Narrating Antarctica
• Antarctica in literature, art and film
• Visualising Antarctica
• Rethinking the heroic era
• Antarctic masculinities
• Postcolonial Antarctica
• Antarctic spatiality
• Antarctic gothic
• Antarctic travel
• Antarctic disasters
• Domestic Antarctica
• Environmental Antarctica
• Antarctic archives and artifacts
• Human-animals relations in Antarctic

English Language and Literature

Medieval and Modern History

Visual Arts and Media

Organisation:

Gateway Antarctica, the English Programme at the University of Canterbury, together with the School of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania