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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Collecting the Unconscious: Reflections on Sleep and Dreams
Graduate Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Graduate Humanities Forum, a graduate-student-run division of the Penn Humanities Forum, is hosting its 5th Annual Conference on Thursday, March 3rd and Friday, March 4th, 2005.
The Forum seeks conference proposals on this year’s topic of “sleep and dreams.” We encourage a broadly interdisciplinary approach to the notion of sleep. In this symposium, we welcome proposals that consider any facet of sleep and/or dreams, and we offer the following suggestions as inspiration:
Insomnia and somnambulism
Troubled Sleep: existentialism, bad faith, and the unconscious
Surrealism and its relation to sleep states
Magic realism and transitions of consciousness
Nightmares
Medieval dream visions
Nocturnes
“I have a dream”: Dreams, race, and double-consciousness
Day dreams: the unconscious and the imaginary
The political unconscious
Psychoanalytic approaches to the unconscious (e.g. Kristeva)
Dreams and the subversive discursive
“Sleep aids”: sleep, pharmacology, and altered states
Dreams and gender
The sleep of reason
Dream poetics
Sleep disorders
The politics of sleep
Lucid dreaming
Prophecy, divination, or the oracular dream
“Brain in a vat”: from Descartes to The Matrix
We encourage presenters to consider these issues in light of their own research or academic interests. In addition to formal papers, we encourage proposals for panels, group discussions, short seminars, or workshops. Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be emailed by January 15, 2005 to the e-mail address below. A committee from the Graduate Humanities Forum will evaluate all proposals, and notification of acceptances will be emailed by February 7, 2005.
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