1st Global Conference
Fear, Horror and Terror
Monday 10th September - Wednesday 12th September 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford
Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
conference seeks to examine and explore issues
which lie at the interface of fear, horror
and terror. In particular the project is
interested in investigating the various contexts
of fear, horror and terror, and assessing issues
surrounding the artistic, cinematic, literary,
moral, social, (geo)political, philosophical,
psychological and religious significance of them,
both individually and together.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops
are invited on issues related to any of the
following themes:
1. The Contexts of Fear, Horror and Terror
- creating fear, horror and terror
- the properties of fear, horror and terror
- contexts of fear, horror and terror
- the language of fear, horror and terror
- the meaning of fear, horror and terror
- the significance of fear, horror and terror
2. At the Interface of Fear, Horror and Terror
- the role of fear, horror and terror
- techniques of fear, horror and terror
- marketing fear, horror and terror
- recreational fear, horror and terror
- aesthetic fear, horror and terror
- the temperature of fear, horror and terror
- the relation to anxiety, disgust, dread, loathing
- the relation to hope and the future
3. Representations of Fear, Horror and Terror
- fear, horror, terror and the imagination
- fear, horror, terror and pleasure
- fear, horror, terror and art, cinema, theatre
- fear, horror, terror and literature
(including children‚s stories)
- fear, horror, terror and the other
- fear, horror, terror and technology
- fear, horror, terror, hope and despair
- confronting fear, horror and terror
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the
submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers
will also be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
11th May 2007. If an abstract is accepted for the
conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 24th August 2007.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to the
Organising Joint Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats.
Organising Committee:
Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
E-Mail: fht1@wickedness.net
Stephen Morris
Independent Scholar,
New York, USA
E-Mail: smmorris58@yahoo.com
All papers accepted for and presented at the
conference will be eligible for inclusion in an
ISBN eBook. In addition, selected papers
accepted for and presented at this conference will
also be published in a themed volume.
The conference is part of a larger series of
ongoing conferences, run under the general banner
'At the Interface'. It aims to bring together
people from different areas and interests to share
ideas and explore various discussions which are
innovative and exciting.
For further information about the project please
visit:
http://www.wickedness.net/Fear/fear.html
For further information about the conference
please visit:
http://www.wickedness.net/Fear/f1/cfp.html
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