[Discussion] CFP: Magical, Religious, Occult and Mystical Discourse (Cyprus) (2/11/05; Inscriptions, 5/12/05-5/13/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Magical, Religious, Occult and Mystical Discourse
A Panel Discussion at the
Eighth International Literature and Humanities Conference
INSCRIPTIONS '05: an arts and culture conference and festival at
Eastern Mediterranean University in
Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
May 12th - 13th, 2005

Submissions are invited for a Panel Discussion on the relations between
language and belief in the preternatural; and on the interpretive
techniques involved in deciphering or determining the meaning and
significance of spoken or written texts and images in the traditions
variously classified as magical, religious, occult, or mystical. We
welcome in particular presentations which suggest points of intersection
or engagement between these relations and techniques, and contemporary
tendencies in critical theory.

Some possible topic areas (others are welcome):
-alchemical, cabalistic, or theosophical texts; Books of the Dead, grimoires
-oracular/trance speech, glossolalia, automatic writing
-Ouija boards, Tarot cards, astrology, techniques of divination
-symbolic, allegorical, anagogical readings of text/ the world as text
-spells, prayers, promises, incantations
-absence and presence; conjuration and exorcism
-runes, charms, amulets, talismans
-performative subjects/objects: satanism, witchcraft, voodoo, obeah
-magical moralities: the tales of Perrault, the Grimm brothers, and Anderson
-ideologies of magic: Lewis, Tolkien, Le Guin, and Rowling
-mystical desire, ecstasy, orgasm, and transcendent language
-witches and warlocks: gender roles in the experience of the supernatural
-sacred texts and ideologies of translation
-Meister Eckhart, Boehme, Swedenborg, and the language of angels
-angels, daemons, and hermeneutic mediation
-magic, medicine, and readings/inscriptions of the body
-Michel de Certeau's Mystic Fable
-visions, dreams, texts of revelation, the language of the possessed
-Biblical hermeneutics, revelation, and the death of god
-postmodern theologies
-madness, spirit/demonic possession, and psychoanalysis
-Faustian contracts and binding spells; knowledge and power

Prospective panelists are invited to send 250-word abstracts/proposals
for 15-20 minute presentations on any aspect of these areas to
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr by 11th February, 2005. I  look forward to
learning about your research, and to a provocative discussion.

For more information about INSCRIPTIONS '05, please visit our website at
http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/inscriptions Please also check out our links
to "Individual Research Presentations" and "Creative/Performance Work."



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