TARTALO. The VIII International Conference on Myth in the Arts

“Tartalo. The VIII International Conference on Myth in the Arts” is organised by the Reseach Group Project Tartalo (TR42114) and researchers from the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Basque Country and UNED-Associated Center from Vitoria-Gasteiz.

The event is sponsored by the University of the Basque Country, the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Faculty of Arts and its Department of English & German Studies, and the Department of Classic Studies, the UNED (Spanish Open University), the Basque Centre of Irish Studies (Eusk-Cara) and the non-profit cultural association Hevenday. The official collaborators of the event are Artium Museoa (Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country), REWEST Resarch Group (UPV/EHU), Relaciones políticas y categorías sociales en Grecia y Roma Research Group (UPV/EHU), the Deparment of Filology and History of the Faculty of Arts, and the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic of the University of Glasgow.

The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum where ancient, classical, modern and contemporary myths can be explored in all possible artistic fields —from literature, to music, to film, to performative arts and virtual media, to name but a few— and from a variety of theoretical frameworks —Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism/s, Masculinities, LGTBQ+ Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Ecocriticism, Disability Studies, Film Studies and Performative Studies, among others. The event will include key-note lectures by international scholars and professionals on the use, subversion and re/production of old and new myths both as vehicles for cultural communication and as means of artistic expression. “Tartalo. The VIII International Conference on Myth in the Arts” welcomes applications from PhD students, late-stages MA students and PostDoc researchers, as well as from established researchers and academics on the following and complementing topics:

· Myth and genre:

· Myth and the Fantastic;

· Myth in the American West;

· Myth and the Inklings;

· Myth and Modernism

· Myth in Science Fiction;

· Myth and horror;

· Myth in comedy;

· Myth in romance;

· Myth in tragedy;

· Myth in Children and Young Adults Literature

· Myth and medium:

· Myth in cinema;

· Myth in paintings;

· Myth and the performative arts (music, dance, theatre -opera, zarzuela, performance, cabaret, puppetry, circus…);

· Myth in architecture;

· Myth in sculpture;

· Myth in photography;

· Myth and new artistic forms (graphic novels, Artificial Intelligence, vlogging, social media, podcasts, picture books…)

· Globar perspectives on Myth

· Revisiting ancient/classical myths in modern/contemporary works

· Birth and evolution of (post)modern myths

· The re/production of urban myths

· Mythopoeia

· Mythifying social stereotypes

· The aesthetics of myth

· Cultural appropriation of non-western myths

· Transtextual dialogues about specific myths

· The artistic representation, use and purpose of myth/s in multicultural contexts

· Mythification as a tool for reclaiming and constructing identities

“Tartalo. The VIII International Conference on Myth in the Arts” will be held online and face-to-face at the Faculty of Arts of the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, on the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th of November, 2024. Presentations will be grouped into theme sessions based on research fields and they will be presented in parallel sessions. Each presenter will be given 20 minutes to present their work either in person or via Zoom. In view of the international character of the event, the working languages are English & Spanish.