Monsters and the Monstrous - Conference Programme

2nd Global Conference

Monsters and the Monstrous:
Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil

Monday 10th May - Wednesday 12th May 2004
Budapest, Hungary

Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers

Monday 10th May
From 12.30pm
Registration

2.00pm:
“Greetings!” by Rob and Stephen

2:15 p.m.
Session 1: Monsters Communist and Nazi
Chair: Terrie Waddell

Peter Mario Kreuter:
Monstrification of the Monster: How Ceausescu Became the ‘Red Vampire’

Eleanor Chiari
Nazi Demons and Sicilian Monsters

3:15 p.m. Coffee

3:45 p.m.
Session 2: Monsters Down South and in the Big City
Chair: Peter Remington

Wladimir Chávez V.
From Aliens to African American Creatures: Two Examples of Monsters in Ecuadorian Short Stories

Jean-Philippe Imbert
The Magic Mazes of Edward James: Mexico or the Monstrous Anamorphosis

Inga Bryden
Monstrous Metropolis

5:15 p.m.
Notices + Wine Reception

7:00 p.m.
Session 3: Monsters Hopeful and Friendly
Chair: Fiona Peters

Chris Smith
New Territories: Biology, Architecture, and the Hopeful Monster

Richard Stamp
We Scare Because We Care: How Monsters Make Friends in Animated Feature Films

8.00pm Sessions End

Tuesday 11th May
9:30 a.m.
Session 4: Frankenstein and Friends
Chair: Estelle Mare

Paul Yoder
“Frankenstein to Frankenberry: Morphing of the Monster Myth in Pop Culture”

Kamila Vránková
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley´s Horror of Split Consciousness

Fiona Peters
“Mechanical Monsters and Melancholia: From Frankenstein’s Monster to Edward Scissorhands”

11:00 a.m.
Coffee

11:30 a.m.
Session 5: Monsters Medicinal
Chair: Richard Stamp

Theo Vurdubakis
Monster Myths and Metaphors in the Debate Over New Reproductive Technologies

Kate Hebblethwaite
Invading Boundaries: Hybrids, Disease, and Empire

12:30 p.m.
Lunch

2:00 p.m.
Session 6: Monsters Miscellaneous
Chair: John Cussans

Colette Balmain
Vengeful Virgins in White: Female Monstrosity in Asian Cinema

Nur Ozgenalp
Little Mermaids Swimming in the Patriarchal Seas

Dunstan Lowe
Monsters in the Roman Sky: Heaven and Earth in Manilius’ Astronomica

3:30 p.m.
Coffee

4:00 p.m.
Session 7: Monsters Attack
Chair: Michael Breen

Terrie Waddell
The Undead, Psychopomps, and Infanticide: Trickster in The Others

Verana-Susanna Nungesser
From Bluebeard and The Robber Bridegroom to "Buffalo Bill" and "Hannibal the Cannibal": A Look at Two Recurring Characters in Art

Cary Morrison
Creature Conflict: Man, Monster and the Metaphor of Intractable Social Conflict

5:30 p.m. Conclusion

Wednesday 12th May
9:30 a.m.
Session 8: Monsters Medieval Revisited
Chair: Paul Yoder

Ludmila Sukina
Monsters of the Russian Apocalypses and Synodicons

Estelle Mare
There is No Hero without a Dragon: A Revisionist Interpretation of the Myth of St George and the Dragon

10:30 a.m.
Coffee

11:00 a.m.
Session 9: Monsters Undead and Giant
Chair: Lois Drawmer

Éva Antal
Vamp-irony: The Bestiality of the Socratic Irony

John Cussans
Tracking the Zombie Diaspora: From Subhuman Haiti to Posthuman Tuscon

Hanna Meretoja
The Ethical Ambiguity of the Monster: Good and Evil as Human Possibilities in Michel Tournier's Le Roi des Aulnes

12:30 p.m.
Lunch

2:00 p.m.
Session 10: Monsters Psychological
Chair: Peter Mario Kreuter

Peter Remington
The Sick and the Dead: Some Vampires, Soren Kierkegard, and the American Psychiatric Association

Emily McMehen
Monsters in Isolation and Monsters-at-Large: The American Psychodrama and its Practical Application

Susanne Ramsenthaler
Face-Off: Beauty and the Beast

3:30 p.m.
Coffee

4:00 p.m.
Session 11: Monsters of Childhood
Chair: Kate Hebblethwaite

Phil Fitzsimmons
Where the Wild Things Are: Sendak’s Picture Book and the Monsters Personified, Sanctified, and Glorified

Lois Drawmer
Dysmorphic Bodies of Alice in Wonderland

Michael Breen
Depraved Paedos and Other Beasts: The Media Portrayal of Child Sexual Abusers in Ireland and the U.K.