<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div id="zimbraEditorContainer" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000" class="1"><div>Dear friends--</div><div>here is a CFP for an interdisciplinary publication on GHOSTS!</div><div>You are kindly invited to make submissions.</div><div>Cordially,</div><div>Sämi LUDWIG</div><br><br><div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: medium; padding: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; border: medium; padding: 0cm;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">GHOSTS ! A Conversation on the Unreal<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; border: medium; padding: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Guest publication in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>ABC</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Lucian Blaga University Press, Sibiu, Romania)</span></b></p></div></div><span lang="EN-US" style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto;"></span><span style="caret-color: #000000; color: 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KI-generierte Inhalte können fehlerhaft sein."></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">So, what are ghosts anyway? What is their epistemological function? As a cognitive phenomenon, “ghosts” have to do with the margins of knowledge, often undermining the stability of our thinking, adding unexpected (and therefore often terrifying) dimensions. They may be traces of interloping false memory full of superstition, but they can also be true and relevant memories that have been suppressed but are now trying to manifest themselves. In either case, such ghostly experiences always force us to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>renegotiate our sense of reality</b>.</span></p></div><span lang="EN-US" style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: auto;"></span><span style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">We invite experts from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>different disciplines<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>to share their perspective on the epistemological dimensions of ghosts, hauntings, or on the supernatural and the improbable, in all of its diverse manifestations, traditional and new theorizations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Potential topics<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US">for papers can range from ghost stories and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>gothic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>fantasies to discussions of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>uncanny and doppelgangers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>in Freudian and post-Freudian ways,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>idealist Hegelian notions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Weltgeist</i>, and poststructuralist<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Derridean Hauntology</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">We would like these ‘high-brow’ approaches to be complemented not only with possible examples from ghost-busting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>popular or even trash culture</b>, but also with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>folklore<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>studies that discuss the meaning of ghosts in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>ethnographic approaches<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>based on field work and examples from many different cultures, such as the continuous power of dead family members in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>ancestor worship</b>, or the case of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>voodoo<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>zombies and duppies, and other occasions of African American “h’ants.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Theologians<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US">can contribute to our understanding of the unreal by sharing their debates about the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>resurrection of Christ in the flesh</b>, the nature of other Biblical miracles, or the agency of angels and devils.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Intercultural discussions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US">of the Other are also welcome, as in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Chinese appellation “gui”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>for foreigners, and similar cases in other cultural contexts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Historical hoaxes<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>or “Ossianisms” may add to our discussions as well, or cases of what psychologists call “group speak” that lead to colossal misunderstandings. In a similar context, economists may want to present the case of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>business “bubbles.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The aim of this interdisciplinary volume is to gather together experts from diverse fields and share their knowledge of various phenomena of the unreal in the immodest hope that, maybe, this will make it possible for readers to learn more about “the real”—a complicated notion that we put in lower case in order to emphasize its experiential relativity and tenuous constructedness. In an age of fake news, alternative truths, and the absolute rejection of positive knowledge, it is important to learn as much as possible about how<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>knowledge<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>can be framed and how exactly its<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>borderlines<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>can be defined. We want to approach ghosts as an omnipresent epistemological challenge that confronts our experience with the very foundations of our beliefs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span lang="EN-US">This special issue follows a very successful conference in Mulhouse in May 2025. We are welcoming additional articles to supplement our collection.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Scientific committee:</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Sämi LUDWIG, UHA Mulhouse<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Régine BATTISTON, UHA Mulhouse<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Maxime LEROY, UHA Mulhouse<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Wolfgang HOCHBRUCK, Universität Freiburg<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Daniel ORTIZ, Universität Basel<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Nicoleta ALEXOAE ZAGNI, Paris 8<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Maxime COULOMBE, Université Laval, Canada</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Deadline</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for contributions:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>December 2025. Send you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>submissions of 8500 words or less to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:samuel.ludwig@uha.fr" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US">samuel.ludwig@uha.fr</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><br>We prefer quality over quantity and expect<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>MLA 9 style</b>; see the web site of ABC:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="FR"><a href="https://abcjournal.eu/sample-page/" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://abcjournal.eu/sample-page/</span></a></span><span lang="FR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><br>Publication in 2026.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><br><div><div id="sig" style="min-height: 150px; min-width: 300px; ; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0; padding: 5px 0; border-top: 1px #8f8e9a solid; border-bottom: 1px #8f8e9a solid;"><span style="font-size: 18.666666px;">“What do you think those space ships are for, you fools? So that </span><br style="font-size: 18.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 18.666666px;">the executives of multinational corporations and their company </span><br style="font-size: 18.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 18.666666px;">men and servants will be able to sit out the holocaust on another planet.” </span><br style="font-size: 18.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 18.666666px;">Ishmael Reed, </span><em style="font-size: 18.666666px;">The Terrible Twos</em><span style="font-size: 18.666666px;"> (1982)</span><br><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"></span><table border="0" style="height: 337px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 69px;"><td style="min-width: 280px; height: 69px; width: 340.40625px;"><br><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img class="img1" style="display: block;" alt="logo de l'UHA" width="210px" data-mce-src="http://www.uha.fr/images/logo-bleu-txt" src="http://www.uha.fr/images/logo-bleu-txt"></span></div></td><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #0055a6; font-weight: normal; height: 69px; width: 0px;"></td></tr><tr style="height: 268px;"><td valign="top" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #8f8e9a; font-weight: normal; height: 268px; width: 340.40625px;"><div dir="ltr" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Sämi LUDWIG</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">PU1 anglais<br></span><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Membre d'ILLE (4363)</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><div>Institut de recherche en Langues et Littérature Européenne</div><div>Université de Haute Alsace - UHA / Mulhouse (F)</div><div>10, rue des Frères Lumière</div><div>F - 68093 MULHOUSE Cedex</div><br><div>Private address:</div><div>Im Has 25</div><div>CH-4616 Kappel/SO Switzerland</div><div>Tél. : <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT489_com_zimbra_phone" style="color: #005a95; cursor: pointer;"><a href="callto:+33 (0) 678.596.855" style="color: #005a95; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">+</a>41 62 216 6929</span></div><div>email : samuel.ludwig@uha.fr</div><br><div>latest publication:</div><div><img src="cid:dda41559aaf0fe84cb14a1c6667e1fc3ca4181f2@zimbra" data-mce-src="https://e-partage.uha.fr/home/samuel.ludwig@uha.fr/Briefcase/Ludwig-Resurrecting-c.jpeg"></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__">-- <br></div><div><div id="sig" style="min-height: 150px; min-width: 300px; ; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0; padding: 5px 0; border-top: 1px #8f8e9a solid; border-bottom: 1px #8f8e9a solid;"><span style="font-size: 18.666666px;">“What do you think those space ships are for, you fools? So that </span><br style="font-size: 18.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 18.666666px;">the executives of multinational corporations and their company </span><br style="font-size: 18.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 18.666666px;">men and servants will be able to sit out the holocaust on another planet.” </span><br style="font-size: 18.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 18.666666px;">Ishmael Reed, </span><em style="font-size: 18.666666px;">The Terrible Twos</em><span style="font-size: 18.666666px;"> (1982)</span><br><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"></span><table border="0" style="height: 337px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 69px;"><td style="min-width: 280px; height: 69px; width: 340.40625px;"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img class="img1" style="display: block;" src="http://www.uha.fr/images/logo-bleu-txt" alt="logo de l'UHA" width="210px" data-mce-src="http://www.uha.fr/images/logo-bleu-txt"></span></div></td><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #0055a6; font-weight: normal; height: 69px; width: 0px;"></td></tr><tr style="height: 268px;"><td valign="top" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #8f8e9a; font-weight: normal; height: 268px; width: 340.40625px;"><div dir="ltr" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Sämi LUDWIG</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">PU1 anglais<br></span><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Membre d'ILLE (4363)</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><div>Institut de recherche en Langues et Littérature Européenne</div><div>Université de Haute Alsace - UHA / Mulhouse (F)</div><div>10, rue des Frères Lumière</div><div>F - 68093 MULHOUSE Cedex</div><div><br></div><div>Private address:</div><div>Im Has 25</div><div>CH-4616 Kappel/SO Switzerland</div><div>Tél. : <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT489_com_zimbra_phone" style="color: #005a95; cursor: pointer;"><a href="callto:+33 (0) 678.596.855" style="color: #005a95; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">+</a>41 62 216 6929</span></div><div>email : samuel.ludwig@uha.fr</div><div><br></div><div>latest publication:</div><div><img src="cid:9f944ff361ee45b49b301dd5f64a962614d5046a@zimbra" data-mce-src="https://e-partage.uha.fr/home/samuel.ludwig@uha.fr/Briefcase/Ludwig-Resurrecting-c.jpeg" doc="Briefcase/Ludwig-Resurrecting-c.jpeg"></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></body></html>