[Antiquitas] CfP: Death in Literature, 12-13 December 2012, Helsinki

[Sari Kivistö]

Heipähei,
meillä olisi tutkijakollegiumissa joulukuussa tällainen symposium,  
historialliset perspektiivit myös tervetulleita! terv. sari

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Call for Papers:

Death in Literature

12-13 December 2012
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

The symposium on Death in Literature focuses on representations of  
death and dying in literature. Potential questions to be addressed  
include, but are not limited to:
- images and narratives of death, dying and mortality in literature  
and popular
imagination
- posthumous life in literature
- playing with death
- political uses of death images and narratives
- death and humor
- aesthetics of death and
- poetry of mourning

Contributions both by researchers and fiction writers are welcome!

Deadline for the abstracts: 15 June 2012. Please, submit an abstract  
(max. 300 words) and the contact information to Outi Hakola  
(outi.j.hakola at helsinki.fi).

The conference is organized by two programmes hosted by the Helsinki  
Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS): the HCAS Writer Programme and  
the Human Mortality project. The aim of the HCAS Writer Programme is  
to reinforce interaction between research and art by sharing insights  
and engaging academic researchers and artists in dialogue. The Human  
Mortality project aims to discuss death, dying and mortality in an  
interdisciplinary network.

More information:
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/projects/writer/index.htm
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/projects/mortality/index.htm

Contact information:
Outi J. Hakola
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Finland
Email: outi.j.hakola at helsinki.fi
Phone: +358 9 191 21734


-- 
Sari Kivistö
Academy Research Fellow, Deputy Director
Docent of Comparative Literature
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
P.O.Box 4 (Fabianinkatu 24)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 9 191 23458
Email: sari.kivisto at helsinki.fi
www.helsinki.fi/collegium