Darkness Conference 2023

Darkness in the American Imagination Virtual Conference | September 4-8, 2023
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Our final program is out! We're just one week away from our virtual conference.. registration for attendees only will be open until September 3. Find all of it on the official page ⬇️

https://t.co/otylv4GYce

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CFP 📢 The call for our virtual conference Neo/noir and Thriller Imaginaries in US American Culture is now OPEN!

Deadline for proposals: JUNE 17
The conference will be held on Zoom on the days 6-7 September 2024. Find the call on the official website https://t.co/UhLr2lehP3

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You can now find the recording of our keynote "La Nuit américaine: Artificial Darkness and Race in Recent American Art" by Noam M. Elcott and chaired by Anna Marta Marini(@AnnaMartaMarini) here ⬇️

https://t.co/J0hUfCWz41

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You can now find the recording of our keynote "NdN Popular Culture: Musings on Cultural Appropriation and Representation" by Kyle T. Mays (@mays_kyle) and chaired by Paula Barba Guerrero (@pbarbaguerrero) here ⬇️

https://t.co/AVR5VwXfrZ

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And it was a great insightful keynote, perfect to wrap up a (long) week of conference! Thanks to all of the participants for being there with us 🖤

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We close our conference week with Noam Elcott's keynote on artificial darkness touching upon representations of race in recen US art and (popular) culture, chaired by @AnnaMartaMarini

[Sarah Cullen @sfdcullen]

Thank you very much @popmec_darkness for giving me the opportunity to share my research alongside other fascinating papers! It was a very enjoyable panel!

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@Inphemeral The speaker closing this panel is Sarah Cullen (@sfdcullen) and she examines the connections between surveillance and race in 19th century literature

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The last session of the day starts with Panel A "Surveillance and the Dark" chaired by Paula Barba Guerrero (@pbarbaguerrero)

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@Inphemeral The second presentation by Carla Abella Rodríguez is "Surveilled Bodies in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black" and looks at how surveillance and anti-Blackness connect

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And in our final presentation, Cody Parish explores montrous marriages in Ready Or Not and The Invitation

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In Panel B, we're about to start our final session, on Dark Romanticism. Chaired by Alejandro Rivero Vadillo (@kyberbogitsch)

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Samuel Suárez Murias now presents his paper "From the Gaols to the Stake: How Religious Intolerance Took the Quakers from England to Dark Times in New England"

[Beatriz @bhermidaramos]

So happy to have chaired such a brilliant and engaging panel! Thank you so much @popmec_darkness 💗

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The last presentation of the panel is by Inês Tadeu and it looks at the connections between night, darkness and witchcraft in representations of the Puritan witch hunt

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The next panel "Women and Religion" is chaired by Laura Álvarez Trigo (@Inphemeral)

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The following presentation by Rita Filanti examines Voltairine de Cleyre's poetry looking at the links between anarchism and religion

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And the final presenter in this panel is Michael Fuchs (@michlfuchs), with his paper on the monsters of the deep sea

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In Panel B, we're about to get started with "Frontiers of Human Knowledge," chaired by John NA Brown

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Isaac Aday is second in line, exploring "gothic/horror as re-enchantment"