This panel interrogates the title “The Uncanny and Sublime: The Liminality of Knowledge” by asking: what constitutes knowledge when it emerges from thresholds—moments of affect, disorientation, or aesthetic rupture? How does the liminal “unknowing” of the uncanny and sublime inform new modes of intellectual inquiry? Does this liminality reorient traditional ways of thought?
We propose to reimagine knowledge not as fixed or total, but as historically contingent, affectively charged, and responsive to the instability of the present. Emphasizing the “now” as a site of critical tension and possibility, this panel invites papers from any field that investigate how representations of the uncanny and the sublime affect knowledge and the absolute, and how the thresholds of the uncanny and/or the sublime unsettle dominant modes of perception, exploring their capacity to produce new frameworks of understanding, affect, and meaning across historical, literary, and cultural contexts.
This panel invites papers from interdisciplinary fields that engage with the uncanny and/or the sublime.
Please submit your abstract of 150-200 words, and a brief academic biographical statement, in a single Word or PDF document to Anriena Zen (anriena.zen@monash.edu)