Mourning: different times, different forms

The conference is designed to be collaborative and interdisciplinary, bringing together academics from Modern Languages, English, and Science, as well as individuals from the creative sector.

• Firstly, the conference will investigate the relationship between mourning and different genres: in particular, poetry, autobiography, the novel, the essay, and diaries.
• It will then look beyond literature to consider the role of photography and the visual arts as expressions of mourning.
• Thirdly, it will be attentive to historical precedents and aim especially to bring the medieval and the modern into an unusual and productive dialogue.

Our research questions concern, then, different relationships: between the medieval and the modern; between prose and poetry; between literature and criticism; between words and images; finally, and perhaps especially, between the individual and the collective as between life and literature.