Call for papers: The Worlds of Giger: between literature and the arts. Deadline: 26th April 2020, for a (hopefully) post-virus conference in France on 25th-27th November 2020. It appears it won’t be wall-to-wall Alien…

Hans Ruedi Giger (1940-2014) is undoubtedly one of the most famous Swiss artists … But there is a pre-Alien Giger as well. His work includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, designed objects, and comics [and in such work he] often paid homage to one of the masters of the genre, H.P. Lovecraft. It is the first time an international conference has been devoted to him…