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Ohio University Arts and Terror Conference May 15-17, 2009
| Location: | Ohio, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2009-05-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-03-30 |
| Announcement ID: |
167867 |
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Arts and Terror
International Conference
School of Interdisciplinary Arts
College of Fine Arts
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
May 15-17, 2009
The conference seeks to examine the relationship between arts and terror through a wide range of disciplines in arts, humanities, and social sciences. What is the nature of terror as it has found and continues to find expression in the arts? How do experiences and representations of horror vary across cultural and historical boundaries? What is the connection, if any, between the terrible and the comical, fear and laughter? What are the effects of recurring holocausts and terror campaigns on our artistic sensibilities and projects? Conversely, does artistic engagement with the experience of terror dispel or promote, neutralize or exacerbate our fascination with the terrible? How are contemporary representations and enactments of this fascination related to the aesthetic doctrines of “pity and fear” and the romantic or postmodern sublime?
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