Organised by the University of York Fantasy Discussion Group
To be held in York 12th-13th March 2020
Keynote speakers: Professor George P. Landow (Emeritus Professor, Brown)
and Dr. Rob Maslen (University of Glasgow)
‘There was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur. She
immediately stepped into the wardrobe and got in among the coats and rubbed her
face against them, leaving the door open, of course, because she knew that it
is very foolish to shut oneself into any wardrobe. Soon she went further in and
found that there was a second row of coats hanging up behind the first one. It
was almost quite dark in there and she kept her arms stretched out in front of
her so as not to bump her face into the back of the wardrobe. She took a step
further in – then two or three steps – always expecting to feel woodwork
against the tips of her fingers. But she could not feel it.’ – C.S. Lewis, The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, first published in 1950.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on the subject of ‘threshold,
boundary, and crossover’ in fantasy. Creative interpretation of the theme is
encouraged, and particular precedence will be given to papers looking at
interdisciplinarity in fantasy studies. We wish to push the limits of how we
interpret and understand fantasy as a categorical term, interrogating the idea
put forward by art historian Walter Schurian that ‘the fantastic can also be
found in other fields of art, such as literature, architecture, music and film;
fantastical tendencies and currents can even be observed in the natural
sciences, for example in the form of unusual, chance opinions and theories.’ As
such, we welcome papers from scholars working in any field or discipline.
Some thematic prompts include, but are not limited to:
- Interdisciplinarity
- Intertextuality
- Cross-cultural exchange
- International exchange
- National fantasies
- Gender
- Selfhood, self and other
- Children/ YA/ Adult
- Journey, pilgrimage, passage
- Ancient/ Medieval/ Modern
- Between worlds
- Frames, framing devices and literal thresholds
- Hermeticism
- Retellings
- Portals and transportation
- Genre, categorisation, classification
- Ideas of here and there
- Fin-de-siècle
- Youth and age
- Fantasy and science fiction
To submit a proposal, please send (in one document) a biography of c.
100 words and a paper abstract of no more than 400 words to
fantasythreshold2020@gmail.com by September 13th 2019. Queries can be directed
to this email address also.
N.B. We also welcome and encourage non-traditional forms of
participation and presentation, i.e. performances, cosplay, lightning
presentations (1 slide & 5 minutes), speed panels, poster discussions, and
other. For non-traditional presentations, please outline your delivery proposal
when submitting.
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