<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear friends,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm contributing to an International Conference that will be held in 2015 in Madrid (Spain) at <span></span><span>Universidad </span><span>Complutense</span><span></span>. Although the subject is not focused on Japan, it is wide enough to arrange a panel about Japan. It would be great to arrange a discussion panel or round table with some of you. If someone is interested, please, may you contact me out <span>list</span>. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Here you have the text of the <span>call</span>:</div><div><br></div><div>THE GODDESSES </div><div>
<p>The consolidation of the Western God -monotheistic and patriarchal- blurred a previous long period in which matriarchal deities occupied the top places in their respective pantheons. Their study is still pending, not only in order to increase awareness of the symbolic universes of the past, but also in order to better understand and appraise the novelty meant by the irruption of the new God that arrived to put them away in a pantheon deeply transformed by their new <span>protagonism</span>.</p>
<p>Furthermore, this theme has become a subject of topical interest, once the patriarchal God has fallen out of his dominant position. There are many questions that remain unanswered since, not only for anthropology, but also for psychology and psychoanalysis, for the History of art and the discourses of mass media, for sociology, for politics, for cultural and gender studies...</p>
<p>Does the fall of the patriarchal God mean the end point of the history of <span>gods</span>, or does it open the door to the return of more ancient divinities? To what extent do pro-indigenous, environmental and nationalistic discourses keep mythological resonances of ancient maternal deities? If the patriarchal God was the symbolic pillar on which the prestige of the paternal function was based, to what extent does <span>his</span> fall hinder the presence and effectiveness of that function? And above all, does the construction of subjectivity in the present world take place outside any mythological premise or, on the contrary, is this world shaped by mythological molds that escape people's consciousness?</p>
<p>There is <span>too</span> the contemporary visual landscape, as it is shown on the web and on television, in advertising, in film and literature, in painting and in the new scene of contemporary music. Everything seems to indicate that it is there, regardless of the final assessment that can be carried out, that a certain aura of divinity invests the most varied configurations of the feminine.</p>
<p>This is thus a territory as wide as it is pregnant, which is ideal to guide the works of the <i>7th Conference of Textual Analysis</i>, devoted to «Goddesses» and convened by the Cultural Association <span>Trama</span> y <span>Fondo</span>, in collaboration with the Faculty of Media of the <span>Complutense</span> University of Madrid on 25, 26 and 27 March 2015.</p>
<p>As is customary in our conferences, there is only one condition in order to take part in it: that the reflections being raised must be based on and verified by the analysis of a text or group of texts.</p></div>
<div>For more information: <a href="http://www" target="_blank">http://www</a>.<span>tramayfondo</span>.com/<span>actividades</span>/vii-<span>congreso</span>/</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div>
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Editor / <i>Editor </i><br><span>Profesor</span> Titular / <i>Professor </i><br><span>Universidad</span> Rey Juan Carlos <br><span>Facultad</span> <span>de</span> <span>Ciencias</span> <span>de</span> la <span>Comunicación</span> <br>
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