Keynote Speakers:
Professor Joel P. Eigen (Charles A. Dana Professor of
Sociology, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania)
Professor Melinda A.
Rabb (Professor of English, Brown University, Rhode Island)
Dr. Judith A.
Tucker (Lecturer in the School of Design, Leeds University)
This
cross-period and interdisciplinary conference seeks to situate and interpret
states of mind from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first questioning how
the space, place and historical context in which mental states are experienced
shaped the narratives produced by individuals. Interweaving perspectives from
across such disciplines as literature, history, philosophy, art history,
creative writing, psychology and sociology, the conference will explore accounts
of states of mind including mental illness, dreams, sleep-walking, imaginative
states and self-awareness. The conference seeks to assess how these varying
states of consciousness are expressed and how such narratives are influenced by
historical change, continuity or the reconfiguration of these forms of
expression.
We would like to invite abstracts for papers from across
disciplines on the theme of the conference, particularly related, but not
limited, to the following key strands:
Experience and Representation of
Mental Illness
- the gap between individual experience and interpretations by
medical and legal practitioners
- the relationship between mental distress,
agency, literature and cognition
- representations of mental derangement and
criminal responsibility
Liminal States of Mind
- representations of
liminal states of consciousness
- the relationship between experiences and
representations of dreams and sleepwalking
- categorisation of imaginative
states in cognitive science and philosophy
- concepts of interiority,
selfhood and imaginative processing of real or fictional
worlds
Self-awareness and Place
- relationship between self and place,
particularly regarding the past, decay and dilapidation
- artistic
expressions of situating self-awareness
- creative representations of
landscape as a geographic metaphor
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/humanities/englishhome/englresearch/groups/statesofmind/
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