CfP: Censorship and Deviance, Postgraduate Conference in St Andrews on 5th July 2013

[Chloe Goodall]

Call for Papers: Censorship and Deviance
5 July 2013, University of St Andrews, Scotland

Confirmed keynote address: ‘Deviant Critics/Literary Censors: Unexpected
Tales from the Archive’ by Professor Peter McDonald (St Hugh’s, Oxford).

Deadline for abstracts: Thursday 31st January 2013

Throughout history expressions of artistic thought have been censored, both
on a personal and public level, to fit in with an idealised notion of
cultural ‘normality’. Cultural expression of censorship has taken many
forms, from self-imposed censorship to widespread state sanctions against
freedom of the press. As a reaction to having their creativity and personal
expression stifled, artists and thinkers have attempted to subvert this
control, deviating from an imposed status quo. From the banning of
Galileo’s books by the Vatican for heresy to the current ban in the United
Kingdom of the 2009 film Grotesque, our interdisciplinary postgraduate
conference will look at the reasons behind censorship and the ways in which
it continues to function in society today. It seeks to address the cultural
consequences of censorship in all its permutations, in the fields of
English, classics, film studies, art history, history, philosophy and
modern languages.

We welcome abstracts from postgraduates on a variety of topics including
but not limited to:

· Deviance as a spectrum or a state
· Self-censorship in autobiography
· The canon’s construction and subversion
· Deviant humour and humorous deviance
· Taboos and self-censorship
· Apolitical censorship
· Temporal normalisation of deviance
· Minority narratives
· Deviance as political expression
· The visual aesthetics of sedition
· Religious censorship
· The role of the subaltern

All papers must be in English and must be no longer than twenty minutes in
duration. Please
submit an abstract of no longer than 300 words to
censorshipanddeviance at gmail.com no later
than 31st January 2013.

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