Date: 26 - 30 August 2024
Venue: University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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Convenors: Sandra Mayer, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sylvia Mieszkowski, University of Vienna, Barbara Straumann, University of Zurich
For this seminar session of the ESSE 2024 Conference, 26-30 August 2024, in Lausanne, we invite abstracts on the topic/narrative structures/media conditions of the scandalous (in the 19th-21st centuries) through the lens of in_visibilisation. Scandals – in the context of sex, money or power – tend to involve obfuscation, an audience that is in the dark, but willing to see, agents who have an interest either in disclosure or in concealment. These interests are shot through with power that can be gendered, often contains a class-imbalance, is sometimes racialized, and not infrequently centres on non-normative desires. One area in which these dynamics of scandalization become particularly obvious are the cultural practices of fame and celebrity. The intersections of scandal, celebrity, the marketplace, and literary culture are perhaps most strikingly exemplified by Lord Byron, whose enduring fame and position in the cultural imagination rest on a mix of social and sexual transgression, religious heresy, and political dissent. The commodification of the author's scandalous private and professional life also has distinctly gendered implications, more readily translating into posthumous fame for male than for female authors. Papers might discuss, but are not limited to: literary or filmic representations of political or financial or sexual or corruption scandals or a mix of all three.
Please submit a 250-word abstract of your proposed presentation and a brief bio note directly to the convenors by 31 January 2024.
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