Call for Papers

The Dark Side of Romanticism

October 20-23, 2016

Scholars working in any area of Romanticism are invited to submit proposals for the annual conference to be held October 20-23, 2016 at the foot of Pikes Peak in the Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Abstracts for individual papers, special topic panels, or complete panels are welcome.

Please send 250 word abstracts to: ICR2016@ColoradoCollege.edu by June 1, 2016.

In addition you might see the Call for Papers for special topics.

You may also choose to submit your proposal to a special topic panel. If it is not accepted for inclusion in the special topic panel it will still be considered for inclusion in the conference at large.

The deadline for proposals is June 1, 2016.

We view the conference theme, “The Dark Side of Romanticism,” in a broad context. Suggested possible topics include (but are not limited to):

Angst

Anxiety

Blending/Melding

Dark Materials

Death

Dreams

Distortion and Illusion

Ghosts

Gothic

Haunting

Macabre

Madness

Magic

Mayhem

Mephistotelean

Monsters

Nightmares

Perversion

Psychoanalytic

Repression

Satan

Strange Science

Sublime

Terror

Trance

Uncanny/Unheimlich

Underground

Violence

Visions

Wayward

Wonder