1-4th July: 4th International Poe and Hawthorne Conference: Dis/embodiment

The Fourth International Poe and Hawthorne Conference will take place in Paris from July 1st to July 4th, 2025. The topic of the conference, “dis/embodiment,” is an attempt to recover the messiness of bodies and their materiality, to move beyond the ontological rift between matter and spirit, and to embrace the oxymoronic resistance to the mind/body divide—in other words, to move beyond allegory, and even hermeneutics tout court, and devise ways of reading that destabilize our interpretative...