CFP: UVa Slavic Forum, April 5, 2014

[Madelyn Stuart]

The Fifth Annual UVA Slavic Forum

Transforming Despair into Creation: Artistic Pathology, Coping Mechanisms,
and the Enduring Spirit of the Imagination.

Call for Papers

The Society of Graduate Students at the University of Virginia is pleased
to announce the Fifth Annual Slavic Forum to be held in the Jefferson
Scholars Building in Charlottesville, VA on Saturday April 5th, 2014.   The
focus of this year’s forum is the role of psychiatric conditions or madness
in literature, as well as its relationship to the act of literary creation.


For this forum, we welcome papers dealing with issues regarding the
representation of mental illness and madness in literature, and the role of
art as a cathartic mechanism for those suffering from psychological
anguish.  How have some authors managed to use writing to offer solutions
to their articulated malaise? What works deal with an “overcoming” of
psychological suffering through the act of artistic creation?  How is
mental illness depicted in Russian and other world literatures?
Explorations of these questions and others would be most welcome at the
forum.  While the theme of the forum is  intended to be broad, it
particularly invites papers on the following subjects:

   - Particular authors’ psychological relationships to writing
   - Depiction of madness or mental illness in literature
   - The relationship between the individual and society
   - Societal malaise and artistic depiction of the *Zeitgeist*
   - The influence of authors’ individual psychologies in their art
   - Work drawing on the philosophy of Foucault, Kierkegaard, Sartre,
   Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and other prominent thinkers.
   - Comparative studies drawing from English, French, German, and other
   national literatures
   - Artistic creation as a means for catharsis


 Presentations should be 20 minutes or fewer in length. Please submit
one-page abstracts as attachments to SlavicForum at virginia.edu before March
3rd. The Forum will be accepting submissions from undergraduate and
graduate students.

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