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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The deadline for abstracts for the forthcoming conference <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Frankenstein 2018: two hundred years of monsters, at the ANU and National Film and Sound Archive, has been extended to 6 April.
Details below.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Frankenstein 2018: two hundred years of monsters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">12-15 September 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Nearly two centuries after its anonymous publication on 1 January 1818, Mary Shelley’s
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus</i> remains as topical as ever. Its core story—of a recklessly ambitious and naïve scientist whose artificial human-like creature arouses only horror and disgust, and escapes control
to seek revenge on his creator—has become, for better or worse, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
the </i>techno-scientific fable of modernity. First adapted for stage by Richard Brinsley Peake in 1823, and for film by Edison Studios in 1910, the story has inspired more theatre, film, television and other adaptations than any other modern narrative, with
more than 50 screen adaptations appearing in the 2010s alone. From Fritz Lang’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
Metropolis</i> to Alex Garland’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Ex Machina</i>, and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">The Rocky Horror Picture Show</i> to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">
The Addams Family</i>, the Frankenstein myth reaches into every recess of high and popular culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">We invite proposals for 20-minute papers or 3 x 20-minute panel sessions from scholars across the humanities, sciences and social sciences that respond in interdisciplinary
ways to this most interdisciplinary of novels, including, but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Literary studies, especially of the long eighteenth century, Romanticism, Victorian and neo-Victorian literature<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Re-tellings and re-imaginings of the Frankenstein story in various modes and genres, e.g. SF, steampunk, speculative fiction, slash fiction, etc.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Film, television, theatre and performance, and visual studies<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Digital humanities, reception studies, histories of popular culture and media ecologies<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Gender studies, queer theory and the history of sexuality<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Disability studies and posthumanism<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">The history of medicine, especially reproductive technologies<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Science and technology studies; images and imaginaries of science and scientists<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">The history and philosophy of biology, especially in relation to vitalism
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Affect theory and the history of emotions<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Frankenstein and race, colonialism, empire<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Global and local Frankensteins, e.g. Australian Frankensteins<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Frankenstein and material history<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Cyborgs, robots, artificial intelligence and machine learning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Synthetic biology, genetic engineering and artificial life
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">To maintain order among this menagerie of monsters, we propose the following four overarching themes, each of which will be addressed by one of our keynote speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after:avoid;mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-AU">Frankenstein in 1818: historicising the monster</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">(Professor Sharon Ruston, Lancaster)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after:avoid;mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-AU">Frankenstein as scientific fable: from grave-robbing and galvanism to synthetic biology and</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">machine learning </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">(Professor Genevieve Bell, Australian National University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after:avoid;mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-AU">Adaptation and experimentation: Frankenstein in film and other media
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">(Assistant Professor Shane Denson, Stanford)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-after:avoid;mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-AU">Frankenstein’s queer family: gender, sexuality, reproduction and the work of care<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">(Professor Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">Please send proposals for papers or sessions—including a title, 250-word abstract, and brief author biography—to Dr Russell Smith at
</span><a href="mailto:russell.smith@anu.edu.au" id="LPlnk562904"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">russell.smith@anu.edu.au</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">The deadline for proposals is
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Friday</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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6 April 2018</b>. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee comprising scholars from the humanities, sciences and social sciences, and we will endeavour to inform applicants of the outcome within two weeks of the submission deadline. Please note that we will
endeavour to notify overseas applicants earlier if they submit proposals before the submission deadline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">For further information and updates, as well as information about the Humanities Research Centre’s annual theme for 2018,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Imagining</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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Science and Technology 200 Years after Frankenstein</b>, see: </span><a href="http://hrc.anu.edu.au/2018-annual-theme"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">http://hrc.anu.edu.au/2018-annual-theme</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">.
Please direct any inquiries to Penny Brew at </span><a href="mailto:hrc@anu.edu.au">hrc@anu.edu.au</a><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-AU">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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