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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA">Here There be Monsters: Uncanny Performance, Subversive Hauntings, Transgressive Horror and Canadian Gothic</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>“In Canada, Gothic is almost the norm”<SUP>1<o:p></o:p></SUP></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>The panel <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Here There be Monsters: Uncanny Performance, Subversive Hauntings, Transgressive Horror and Canadian Gothic i</I>nvites interested participants to investigate dramatic and performed/performative aspects of gothic as expressed through multiple positions within the Canadian experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Margaret Atwood, Justin Edwards and Cynthia Sugars are among numerous artists and scholars that have situated gothicness as fundamental to Canadian literature, and by extension the “Canadian experience”.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Gothic explores in-between spaces, the borderless terrain “between the extremities of the self and the Other, the sublime and the abject, the real and the virtual”<SUP>2</SUP>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Canadian gothic occupies a liminal space, a nervous subtext as it were, in the imagination of artists and spectators. These are spaces haunted by colonial ghosts of the past,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>spaces troubled by the instabilities of identity, spaces filled with dark wilderness (both natural and urban).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In short, this is a borderless, ambiguous and anxious space – one that threatens to spontaneously collapse into a terrifying, apocalyptic void.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>This panel aims to interrogate this space and asks participants to explore any aspect of the gothic:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>-practices of re-reading ‘gothic’ into iconic texts and/or performances <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>-how queer gothic, northern gothic, prairie gothic, urban gothic [et.] interupts the notion of Canadian Gothic<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>- visualizing/realizing gothic in production <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>-how does the transgressive nature of gothic further problematize Canadian realism<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>-post-colonial gothic as a meta-narrative in Canadian gothic drama <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>The panel welcomes presentations that are interdisciplinary in various ways of approaching the gothic - film theory, literary criticism, performance studies, art history, Freudian analysis; theories of drama are just some of the possibilities.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The deadline to receive proposals (250 words) is December 9, 2013.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please send your inquires and proposals for 20 minute papers to </FONT></FONT><A href="mailto:wes.pearce@uregina.ca"><FONT color=#0000ff size=3 face=Calibri>wes.pearce@uregina.ca</FONT></A><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>All accepted presenters and participants are required to join CATR/ACRT.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For more information on CATR and to join or renew your membership please visit </FONT><A href="http://catracrt.ca/"><FONT color=#0000ff size=3 face=Calibri>http://catracrt.ca/</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in"><FONT face=Calibri><SUP><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA">1 </SPAN></SUP><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA">Judie Newman. “Postcolonial Gothic: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Sobhraj Case” <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Modern Fiction Studies </I>40.1 (Spring 1994): 85.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri><SUP><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>2 </SPAN></SUP><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA">Justin D. Edwards. <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Gothic Canada</I> (Edmonton, University of Alberta Press 2005): xv.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Wes D. Pearce</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Associate Dean (Undergraduate) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Faculty of Fine Arts </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>University of Regina</FONT></DIV>
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