Here’s another call for
papers that has been doing the rounds, this time for an upcoming symposium to
be held at Cambridge University.
“The Alchemical
Landscape: Counterculture, Occulture and the Geographic Turn”
Corpus Christi
College, University of Cambridge, 23rd March 2015. An interdisciplinary
symposium presented by the Cambridge University Counterculture Research Group
"If any one
book put ley lines on the map, re-enchanted the British landscape and made Glastonbury
the capital of the New Age it was John Michell's seminal 1969 tome The View
Over Atlantis." ---Bob Rickard, Fortean Times, 2009.
In an age of vast
ecological crisis and a widespread re-calibration of the arts and humanities
towards questions of eco-criticism, an increasing number of writers, artists
and film-makers are re-investing the British landscape with esoteric and mythic
imagery. From the revival of 'Folk Horror' to the cross-over between magical
and artistic practice, this 'enchanted' representation of the rural works as
both a link to the past and an articulation of pressing contemporary concerns.
This special
one-day symposium at the University of Cambridge seeks to explore the creative,
aesthetic and political implications of this 'geographic turn'. 300-word
proposals for presentations of up to 20 minutes are invited on any aspect of
this theme. Possible topics could include but are not limited to:
300-word proposals
for presentations of up to 20 minutes are invited on any aspect of this theme.
Possible topics
could include but are not limited to:
* John Michell,
T.C. Lethbridge, J.A Baker, T.H. White, Helen Macdonald, Paul Devereux, Andrew
Collins, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Alan Moore, Derek Jarman, Penny Slinger,
Arthur Machen, Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Dennis Parry, Sven Berlin, Geraldine
Monk, Michael Bracewell, Gary Spencer Millidge, Alice Oswald, David Pinner,
Diana Durham, Charlotte Hussey, Brian Catling, Janni Howker.
* English Heretic,
Ghost Box, Drew Mulholland, Julian Cope, The Outer Church, Pye Corner Audio,
Matt Shaw, The Sinister Insult, Phil Legard, The Geography Trip, The Wyrding
Module, The Haunted Shoreline, The House in the Woods, Wyrd England Gazetteer,
The Soulless Party, A Year in the Country, Wyrdstone, Scarfolk, The Old Weird
Albion, The Sons of T.C. Lethbridge, Psychic Field Recordings.
* The Stone Tape,
Children of the Stones, Quatermass and the Pit, A Field in England, The Wicker
Man, Blood on Satan's Claw, Antichrist, Voodoo Science Park, Robinson in Ruins,
On Vanishing Land, Cobra Mist, The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, The
Owl Service, Robin Redbreast, Penda's Fen.
* Mystical,
visionary and imaginative landscapes, folklore, hauntology, alternative
nostalgia, psychogeography, speculative archaeology, inner space, psychedelic
pastoralism, the contemporary bucolic.
* The creative
potential of magical thinking, Fortean phenomena and parapsychological
practices: crop circles, dowsing, residual haunting, remote viewing, geomancy.
Proposals can be
e-mailed to: thealchemicallandscape@gmail.com. Deadline: 5th January 2015.
Please include a short biographical note with your submission.
Yvonne Salmon FRSA
FRGS FRAI
Preceptor, Corpus Christi
College
Lecturer, University of
Cambridge
James Riley FRSA
Fellow of English
Corpus Christi College
University of Cambridge
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