Yetkin Karaoğlu
15 Eki 2026
The First International Conference Mineralia Arcana
CALL FOR PAPERS — OPEN FROM TODAY
The First International Conference Mineralia Arcana (Senigallia, 20–21–22 November 2026) invites scholars to explore the dialogue between mineral matter, archaic mythologies, symbolic iconographies, and the narrative traditions that traverse global cultural history.
Stones, metals, and crystals — with their structures, metamorphoses, and inner luminosities — have generated over time cosmologies, religious imaginaries, archetypal figures, and literary motifs.
The Major Arcana of the Tarot are here understood as complex cultural objects, situated at the crossroads of symbolic mineralogy, history of religions, analytical psychology, iconography, and narrative traditions.
The conference aims to investigate how matter becomes myth, how myth transforms into image, and how image resonates within literature, cultural memory, and the forms of imagination.
Thematic Areas
• Cultural Mineralogy — stones and metals as narrative elements in ancient cosmologies.
• Mythologies of Matter — the Earth as a mythic archive: fractures, metamorphoses, solidifications.
• Jungian Archetypes — the Arcana as images of the collective unconscious.
• Tarot Iconography — figurative genealogies, symbols, stratifications.
• Symbolic Narratives — myth, literature, epic, poetry, and imaginaries linked to mineral matter.
• Geology and Myth — mineral landscapes as foundational mythic settings.
• Materiality and Imagination — matter as a generator of narrative and symbolic forms.
Participation Guidelines
Submissions are accepted in the following formats:
• Individual papers
• Panel proposals (2 to 5 speakers)
Accepted individual abstracts will be placed into thematically coherent panels.
Submission of Abstracts
Please submit by 15 October 2026:
• Title of the Panel or Individual Paper
• Abstract (max 250 words) + 5 keywords + Affiliation + email or phone number
• Short academic bio (max 150 words).
to:
• sarasilvestridicicco@gmail.com
Notification of Acceptance
Authors will receive a positive or negative response by 30th October 2026.
Dates and Venue
20–21–22 November 2026
Senigallia (AN), Italy
Hybrid format: in-person and online.
Accepted Languages
Italian, English, Spanish.
Publication
Selected contributions will be published in the Proceedings of the International Conference Mineralia Arcana (ISBN).
Sponsorships have been requested from universities, departments, and academic societies, both national and international, to ensure the highest scientific standards of the event.