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Staging the Modern Nightmare (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2022, May). Staging the Modern Nightmare. Presented at Nightmare/s in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge

Dreams and Nightmares in Visual Representation (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2019, May). Dreams and Nightmares in Visual Representation. Presented at Postgraduate Symposium, University of Glasgow

A symposium including presentations on work-in-progress by doctoral candidates, Masters by research, and students studying Taught Postgraduate programmes in: Art History; Art, Politics,Transgression: 20th-Century Avant-Gardes; Curatorial Practice (Co... Read More about Dreams and Nightmares in Visual Representation.

Shape-shifting and Dream-cultures in the Wider Norse World
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. Shape-shifting and Dream-cultures in the Wider Norse World.

Shape-shifting and Dream-cultures in the Wider Norse World, for The Aarhus Old Norse Mythology Conference, Hybrids and Metamorphoses, Prague. mythconf.ff.cuni.cz.

Dream Cultures in the Renaissance
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. S. (2013, May). Dream Cultures in the Renaissance. Presented at Seventh Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology, Tübingen, Germany

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The Time Of The Dream In Mythic Thought And Culture
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2016, May). The Time Of The Dream In Mythic Thought And Culture. Paper presented at Time and Myth: the Temporal and the Eternal. 10th Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Brno, Czech Republic

Ancient and tribal cultures perceive and describe the function of dreaming in distinctive ways. This paper examines theories of mind in ancient northern, Classical and tribal cultures in terms of the imagery used to describe the self and its faculty... Read More about The Time Of The Dream In Mythic Thought And Culture.

Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2019, September). Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions. Paper presented at Dream Cultures: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, University of Helsinki, Finland

The nightmare is a form of “affect-laden” or “self-shattering” dream, wherein the dreamer awakens in a state of high emotional disturbance. Such dreams include initiation and/or shamanic visions, close encounters with gods or spirits, sexual dreams,... Read More about Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions.

Dreams and Andrei Tarkovsky, The Varieties of Dreaming
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2014, November). Dreams and Andrei Tarkovsky, The Varieties of Dreaming. Paper presented at 5th European Regional, International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), Rome, Italy