Academics from around the world are attending a Conference with a difference this weekend at the University of Aberdeen (Friday June 27 - Sunday June 29, 2003). Taking place on the historic King's College campus, the Ritual and Remembrance in the Early Modern World conference will be centred on the idea of ghosts.
Organised by the University's Centre for Early Modern Studies with the School of English the interdisciplinary conference will bring together academics from a range of disciplines to discuss the idea of ghosts. Prominent academics will present papers and lead discussion on topics such as ghosts of the past and how they influence the present; early modern understandings of ghosts and how these have impacted historical culture as a whole as well as consideration of the history, art and literature of ghosts.
Dr Thomas Rist, lecturer in the School of English and Conference Co-Organiser said: "It's wonderful that the University of Aberdeen and particularly its Centre for Early Modern Studies are able to host this exciting conference. The ghosts of the past are with us in many forms - in our books, our art, our ideas of the world and in the ways we see ourselves. It is great that so many distinguished scholars, from such a variety of intellectual disciplines, will be conferring on these subjects here in Aberdeen."
The Conference will be held on the King's College campus at the University of Aberdeen, an institution steeped in the history of the period. Academics from a number of countries will be attending, including the USA, Germany, Sweden and Finland.