3rd Global Conference (2009)

3rd Global Conference

Saturday 19th September – Monday 21st September 2009
Mansfield College, Oxford

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Saturday 19th September 2009
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Abigail Cannons and Michelle Huppert

14.00
Session 1: The Sex Appeal of Sociopaths
Chair: Michele Huppert

Shona Hill and Shilinka Smith
Fearful Irony: The Case of Being Dexter(ous)

Anna Warso
What killed Laura Palmer?:David Lynch’s Twin Peaks as a Dissection of American Fears

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 2: The Darkness of Our Souls
Chair: Christine Muller

Ravenel Richardson
The Inscription of the Traumatised Body in Women’s Diary Writing of the Second World War

Kaya Özkaracalar
Shifting Codes of Fear and Desire in the Vampire Movies of Jean Rollin and Jesus Franco

17.30
Notices/Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Sunday 20th September 2009
09.00
Session 3: Collateral Damage
Chair: Sonja Deschrijver

Elizabeth Brunton
The Horror of the Nurses: Stillbirth and Shell-shock in H.D.’s Asphodel

Jo Chipperfield
‘Bullet-holes for eyes’: The Lingering Image of Horror in a 1920s Murder

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Film Panel – FHT @ the Movies
Chair: Ravenel Richardson

Raul Alvarez Gomez
Silvia Herreros de Tejada
M Gabriel Garcia Mingorance
Araceli Rodriguez Mateos
Antonio Sanchez-Escalonilla

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5:  It’s So Frightening – I Love It
Chair: Shona Hill

Christine Muller
Fate and Terror in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man

Dagmara Zajac
“Tuneful Tragedy:” Aesthetization of Horror in A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Andrea Sauchelli
The Definition of Art-Horror

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 6: You Wouldn’t Read About It
Chair: Bryan Brown

Sonja Deschrijver and Vrajabhumi Vanderheyden
Of Witches, Ghosts and Devilish Creatures. The Experience of Fear in the Early Modern Southern Netherlands

Cynthia Jones
Liberating the Man from the Beast: The Werewolf in Quebecois Folklore

Rainhard Bengez
And the World Became Rifty: Property and Context of Terror in Medieval Society

17.30
Sessions End

Monday 21st September 2009
09.00
Session 7: I Can’t Look- Tell Me When It’s Over
Chair: Anna Warso

Michele Huppert
The Id in the Basement

Kartik Nair
Run For Your Lives: Remembering the Ramsay Brothers

Bryan Brown
Fearing the Addict: Hollywood’s Projection of American’s Phobia of Drug Addicts

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: When Life is Larger Than Fiction
Chair: Elizabeth Brunton

Anastasia Remoundou Howley
Visualizing Terror: Irish Antigones and Contemporary Political Tragedies

L. Michael Spath
Fear and Terror at the Intersection of the Personal and Civilizational: An Integral Analysis

Kevin Wynter
The Image of Horror, The Horror of The Image

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Where Even the Buildings are Frightened
Chair: Rainhard Bengez

Abdulmuttalib Ballam
Fear Based Forms:Investigating the Role of Fear in Producing Architecture and Urban Environments

Leanne Franklin
Everyday Fear: Parenting and Childhood in a Culture of Fear

Carlo Brescia
The Horror of Imposition: An Exploration of Memory, Amnesia and Artistic Expressions

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 10: The Horror We Pay to See
Chair: Jo Chipperfield

Phoebe Fletcher
Apocalyptic Machines: Terror and Anti-Productionin the Post-9/11 Splatter Film

Isabel Pinedo
Tortured Logic: Entertainment and the Spectacle of Deliberately Inflicted Pain in Three Genre-Driven Vehicles

17.00
Development Meeting

17.30
Conference Close