A few of us here at TLOU just got word that we’re presenting at the LeMoyne College Religion and Literature Forum in April. AD and JDR will be talking about Cronenberg’s films and I’ll be talking about Andy Goldsworthy and Victor Vasquez. I’ve copied the details from the website below.
2008 Religion and Literature Forum, April 4-5, 2008
Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York
The Grotesque and the Sublime in Contemporary Culture
The 2008 Religion and Literature Forum will explore contemporary culture through the category of the grotesque and its convergence with the sublime. The grotesque evokes a variety of associations: strange, remarkable, tragic, terrible, diseased, Other/other, terror, terrorism, absence, chaos. Encounters with it evoke affective and cognitive responses analogous to elemental religious experience: fear, vulnerability, fascination, attraction. It is both captivating event and disruptive process, constructing and deconstructing identities, redrawing borders and shifting margins. The grotesque is, finally, transformative and apocalyptic as it draws out the hidden and unmasks the familiar.
Plenary Speakers
Amy Hollywood
Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, Harvard University Divinity School, Speaker Bio
Karmen MacKendrick
Professor of Philosophy, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, Speaker Bio
About the Conference: Call for Papers; Working Schedule
This is Great News!
A Blessed Christmas to all at (or even near) The Land of Unlikeness!
Davis