Museum
of Witchcraft & Magic
Glitter & Gravedust:
Halloween Past & Present
Call for
Papers – October 15th 2016
Glitter
& Gravedust: Halloween Past & Present is a new exhibition
curated by the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic. Opening in March 2016 and running until
December, the exhibition charts the history of the festival and explores its
various incarnations: from Samhain to Hallowtide, a time efficacious for love magic
and divination, to its ambiguous, multicultural and often commercial modern
expressions.
A conference to accompany and augment the exhibition will
take place on Saturday October 15th 2016 in Boscastle. Professor Ronald Hutton will be the keynote
speaker, presenting recent research into ‘The History of Halloween’.
If you would like to present a paper please send an abstract
of no more than 200 words together with a brief biographical note to:
Deadline for abstracts is 31st March 2016.
Free entry to the Museum, exhibition, library and archive will be
included in the ticket price (TBC). Papers
could address the following topics (but these are not restrictive):
· History
of the festival, continuity and change
· Folklore
of Halloween (ancient and modern)
· Regional
variations
· Religion;
Wicca, Paganism, Christianity
· Divination
practices, magic, witchcraft
· Honouring
the dead, ancestor festival
· The culture
of Halloween, literature, music, film etc.
· Tourism,
performing identity, Halloween as ‘event’
· Material
culture of Halloween
· Cross-cultural
perspectives and comparisons
· Masks,
guising, ‘becoming other’
· Halloween
and gender
· Food and
drink at Halloween
Abstracts for the attention of Peter Hewitt,
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