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
