2nd Global Conference
Wednesday 15th May – Friday 17th May 2013
Prague, Czech Republic
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
Wednesday 15th May 2013
From 12.30
Conference Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ken Montieth
14.00
Session 1: Mapping the Monstrous and Dark Tourism
Chair: Ken Montieth
Hospitable Transformations: Sleeping soundly in Haunted Hotels
Erin Ashenhurst
Inns and Mills of Balkan – European Monstrous Spaces
Mirjana Stosic
Monstrous Cartography – Mapping the Chernobyl narrative: The Monstrous and Beyond.
Wynand Viljoen
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 2: Haunted Houses
Chair: Moritz Ingwerson
Lurking Specters, Heteropias and Distopias in Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera (1910)
Cynthia Jones
The Uncanny House In Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction
Olena Lytovka
Monstrous Fabrics: A Case Study of Vathek and The Castle of Otranto
Hsin-Hsuan Lin
17.30
Notices and Announcements
17.40
Wine Reception
Thursday 16th May 2013
09.00
Session 3: Spatial Monstrosity
Chair: Erin Ashenhurst
The Parametric and the Grotesque: Ritualistic Imagination and the Structure of Space
Levon Fox
The Horror of Geometry in the Fictional Universe of H.P. Lovecraft
Moritz Ingwersen
Excavating the Void: Non-human Archive Stories in H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Thomas Ligotti’s Nethescurial
Alessandro Sheedy
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 4: The Afterlife
Chair: Stephen Dougherty
Disturbed Graves: Bone Monuments and Textual Multeity
Erin Vander Wall
From the Darkness of the Grave: Spanish Islam and the Horrors of Death
Miguel Ángel Vázquez
The Remains of the Day: The Afterlife of the Ruins of the World Trade Center
László Munteán
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5: Monsters and Urbanity
Chair: Deborah Dixon
Zombies Landscapes of Lacuna and Swarm: The Poetics of Fear.
Lauren Powell
Infestacion: From Border Politics to Zombie Apocalypse
Ken Monteith
Networks, Plague and the City in Oedipe -(n+1)
Benjamin Aslinger
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 6: Urban Monstrosity in Japan
Chair: Kathleen Wider
Learning From Grotesque Urbanities: Tokyo Study Case
Ilze Paklone
Hashima #4
Deborah Dixon
Tokyo’s Topographies of Death and Destruction
Cary Karacas
Friday 17th May 2013
09.00
Session 7: Terra Incognita
Chair: Joanne Thurman
Horror in the Outback
Naja McFadden
Australia Incognita: The Law Declares ‘Here there be Monsters’
Marianne Dicke
Fate Amenable To Change
Craig Douglas and Rosalea Monacella
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8: Aboriginal Lands and Monsters
Chair: Marianne Dicke
Cave Men, Luminoids and Dragons: Reflections on how Monstrous Creatures mediate the Relationship between People and Country in Aboriginal Northern Australia
Joanne Thurman
Here be Kurdaitcha … Towards an Ethnography of the Monstrous on the Margins of a Central Australian Aboriginal Settlement
Yasmine Musharbash
The Prairie: A Place of Monstrosity and Destruction
Kathleen Wider
12.30
Lunch
13.40
Session 9: Monstrosity Between Nature and Culture
Chair: Cary Karacas
Big Sister vs. Big Brother – Nature, Reason, Subversive Feminine Identity and Gendered Spaces of Monstrosity in George Orwell’s 1984 and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We
Gheran Niculae-Liviu
“How does it not know what it is?”: The Techno-Asian Body in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Larissa Lai’s Automaton Biographies
Tzarina Prater
Technological Sublime and Geographical Monstrosities: The Vajont Dam and Disaster, 1963 and Beyond
Riccardo Dirindin
Chernobyl as Window on SF/History in Adam Roberts’s Yellow Blue Tibia
Stephen Dougherty
15.40
Coffee
16.00
Session 10: Spaces of Exclusion
Chair: Craig Douglas
Mental States of Asylum: Technologies of Subjectivity in Wendy Law Yone’s The Coffin Tree and lê thi diem thúy’s The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Catherine Fung
“Respect the authority of La Zona!”: Gated Communities, Heterotopia and Panopticism in Rodrigo Plá’s La Zona (2007)
Marc Ripley
Feral Street; Identity, Urban Horror and the Rise of the Hoodie in Harry Brown and Heartless
Katerina Flint-Nicol
17.30
Development meeting and closing remarks
18.00
Conference Ends
Please Note: Only delegates attending the conference are listed in the programme.
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