1st Global Conference
Wednesday 18th July – Friday 20th July 2012
Harris Manchester College, Oxford, United Kingdom
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 18th July 2012
From 12.30
Conference Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jessica Rapson
14.00
Session 1: Mapping Monstrous Journeys
Chair: Jessica Rapson
‘Exiles Must Make Their Own Maps’: Postcolonial Texts and Monstrous Cartography
Simona Bertacco
Monsters in the Dark: Dark Tourism and Postcolonial Geographies
Maria Koleth
‘The Wilderness of Wirral’: Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Hannah Priest
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 2: Landscapes in the Wake of Disaster
Chair: Simon Bacon
The Cosmopolitan Nuclear Memoryscape of Chernobyl
Jessica Rapson
Images of Post-Quake Japan or How to Stop Bara-Bara
Yukata Sho
‘Pictures in the Rebus’: Puzzling out W. G. Sebald’s Monstrous Geographies
Anna MacDonald
17.30
Notices and Announcements
17.40
Wine Reception
Thursday 19th July 2012
09.00
Session 3: Monstrous Sexualities
Chair: Deborah Dixon
Black Bodies and the Monstrous Inner City: Pornotropic Rebirth in Give Me Liberty
Robert Topinka
Fissures in the Monstrous Geography of George Orwell’s 1984 and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We: Dissidence, Sexuality and Individualism
Nicolae Liviu Gheran
Inscribed on the Body: Spaces for the Female Post-human in Philip K. Dick Adaptations
Carmen Perez Riu
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 4: Imperial Invasions
Chair: Robert Topinka
From Haven to Hell: How the Earth Went Bad in Recent Adaptations of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds (1898)
Simon Bacon
A Monstrous Metropolis: The Appearance of London in Kate Pullinger’s When the Monster Dies
Sarah Hill
Zombies in the Colonies: Imperialism and Contestation of Ethno-Political Space in Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide
Robert Saunders
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5: Monstrous Spaces in Time
Chair: Jessica Rapson
‘To Uncreation Sunk’: ‘Monstered’ Spaces in First World War Poetry
Sarah Montin
‘We Remember and Wish Good World Come Back Again’: War-ravaged Spaces in Three Contemporary Novels of World War 2
Eva M. Perez
M. R. James’s Ghostly Chronotopes
Jacek Mydla
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 6: Making the Monstrous: Landscapes and Others
Chair: Hannah Priest
Enchanting Microcosm or Apocalyptic Warzone? Human Projections into Bug World
Petra Rehling
Islands of Monstrosity: Textual Terrors in the Wake of Crusoe
Britta Hartmann
Spectre of Surveillance: The Monstrous Border between Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas.
Ken Monteith
Monstrous Breeding Grounds: Creation, Isolation and Suffering at Noble’s Island, Hailsham and Rankstadt.
Evelyn Tsitas
Friday 20th July 2012
09.00
Session 7: Monstrous Spaces
Chair: Eva M. Perez
The Text, the Void and the Spiral: Turbulent Topologies in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves
Moritz Ingwersen
‘Monstrous’ Homes: How Private Spaces Shape Characters’ Identities in 19th-Century Sensation Fiction
Christina Flotmann
Decriminalising the Lawless Moor
Zea Miller
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8: Monstrous Heritage
Chair: Tom Lawson
The Atlantikwall as a War Landscape
Rose Tzalmona
Reimaginings: Morgues, Museums and the Ghost of Errol Flynn
Erin Ashenhurst
Imagining the Yellow Peril: a Topography of Racial Evil in Limehouse, London
Vivian Chadder
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9: The Monstrous Urban Landscape
Chair: Sarah Hill
‘Grey Monstrous London’
Esther Fernandez-Llorente
Soulless Cities: The Postmodern Metropolis and the Horror of Absence
Oliver Golembowski
Rethinking Brutalist Buildings: Their Soul is in Their Making
Olivia Munoz-Rojas
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 10: Monstrous Empire: Australia
Chair: Anna MacDonald
Terror Australis: The Monstrous Landscape of the Antipodes
Thea Costantino
‘The Only Thing to be Deplored is the Extraordinary Mortality’: Flinders Island and the Imagination of Empire
Tom Lawson
Crooked Stilts and Blood-Soaked Bluestones: Unearthing Australia’s Troubled Settlement.
Samuel Finegan
17.30
Development meeting and closing remarks
18.00
Conference Ends
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