[KineJapan] International Conference in Madrid 2015

[Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano]

Dear friends,

I'm contributing to an International Conference that will be held in 2015
in Madrid (Spain) at Universidad Complutense. 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 list.

Here you have the text of the call:

THE GODDESSES

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 protagonism.

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...

Does the fall of the patriarchal God mean the end point of the history of
gods, 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 his 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?

There is too 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.

This is thus a territory as wide as it is pregnant, which is ideal to guide
the works of the *7th Conference of Textual Analysis*, devoted to
«Goddesses» and convened by the Cultural Association Trama y Fondo, in
collaboration with the Faculty of Media of the Complutense University of
Madrid on 25, 26 and 27 March 2015.

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.
For more information: http://www.tramayfondo.com/actividades/vii-congreso/

Best,


*Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano*
Editor / *Editor *
Profesor Titular / *Professor *
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación
Despacho 22, Edificio Departamental
Camino del Molino s/n, 28943 Fuenlabrada (Madrid, Spain)
lorenzojavier.torres.hortelano at urjc.es
 <lorenzojavier.torres.hortelano at urjc.es>34-657565507
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