CALL FOR PAPERS

Arts to Enchant: Formations of Fantasy in Visual Culture

Postgraduate Symposium in the History of Art University of Glasgow, 30th
May 2009

"Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;" - William Shakespeare
Prospero's Epilogue, The Tempest , Act V(c.1623)

Arts to Enchant is a one-day symposium that will bring together
post-graduate academics and practitioners to discuss the role fantasy
plays in visual culture. In the context of this exchange, fantasy will
be examined, not just as an imaginative impulse, but also as an
essential artistic outlet for the dark fears, strange desires, bright
hopes, and frothy whimsies that reason cannot exorcise.

In order to create a flexible forum for original interdisciplinary
exchange, this symposium will encourage exploration of diverse
formations of fantasy across all periods and in every facet of visual
culture.
Possible areas of exploration are therefore broad and include: graphic
design and illustration, film, photography, animation, fashion,
performance, science-fiction and fantasy art, graphic novels and comics,
architecture, archaeology and history of art.

Other themes include but are not limited to:
Fetish/ Goth
Fairy tales & Mythology
Dreams/ Nightmares
Theoretical/ideological/psychoanalytical Fantasy
Aesthetics of Fantasy
Black/ White Magic
Performance and Masquerade
Monsters and Monstrosities
The Surreal/ The Uncanny
Erotica/ Eroticism

Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Abstracts of no more than 250
words should be submitted in English with the speaker's name,
institutional affiliation, the title of the paper and, if applicable, a
list of any audio-visual requirements.

Deadline for submission is Friday the 13th of March, 2009.

Please Send Abstracts to:
artstoenchantgooglemail.com
or
Arts to Enchant Symposium
History of Art Department
University of Glasgow
8 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QH

University of Glasgow website:
http://www.glasgow.ac.uk
Department of History of Art:
http://www.glasgow.ac.uk/historyofart