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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 (v.1.5)

Monday 9th May 2005
From 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Stephen Morris

14:15
Session 1: Monstrous Mothers and Their Families
Chair: Stephen Morris

Nicola Goc
Monstrous Mothers and the Media

Colette Balmain
Becoming-Other: The Monstrous Child in Contemporary American Horror Film

Lois Drawmer
The Monster Under the Bed: Adult Anxieties of Childhood

15.45
Tea

16.15
Session 2: Zombies, Zombies Everywhere
Chair: Paul Dobraszczyk

Peter Dendle
The Zombie as Barometer of Cultural Anxiety

Kevin Boon
Ontological Anxiety Made Flesh

Bryan Jenness
Fearing the Dead: The New Image of the Zombie in Modern Pop Culture

17.45
Notices and Announcements

18.00
Wine Reception, with the delegates from the Critical Issues - The Erotic project

Tuesday 10th May 2005
09:00
Session 3: Monsters From the Depths
Chair: Maja Brzozowska

Roberta Fornari
Monstrous Nature: Moby Dick as Monster Between Myth and Modernity

Wendy Bilboe
Feeding Frenzy? Media Sharks Monster Jaws

Paul Dobraszczyk
Rational, Magical, or Monstrous Spaces: Press Responses to London ’s Sewer System, 1865-68

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 4a: Monsters From the Edge
Chair: Peter Dendle

Stefan Donecker
Werewolves on the Baltic Seashore: The Monstrous Frontier of Early Modern Europe , 1550-1700

Giovanna Bacchiddu
Do You Believe in Monsters? Superstition and Fear in a Chiloe Community (Southern Chile )

Maja Brzozowska
Cute Monsters/Monstrous Cute

Session 4b: Monsters Political
Chair: Peter Remington

Elun Gabriel
Anarchist as Monster in Fin-de-Siecle Europe

Kristen Backer
One Face For Multiple Enemies: The Bolshevik Monster

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
It's Morning In America: The Lost Boys as a Musical Metaphor for the Religious Right and the Death of the Vampire

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Monstrous Erotic (Joint session with Erotic Conference)
Chair: Nane Cantatore

Paul Reynolds
Monstrous Sexualities: Sexual Ethics in a Cold Climate

Suzana Marjanic
Zoocentrically About Bestial Porno and Erotic Zoophilia

Sara Cohen Shabot
Towards a Grotesque Phenomenology of the Erotic

15.30
Tea

16:00
Session 6: Erotic Monstrous (Joint session with Erotic Conference)
Chair: Richard Tilbury

Greg Tuck
Of Monsters, Masturbators, and Markets: Autoerotic Desire, Sexual Exchange, and the Cinematic Serial Killer

Dianne Bunch
George Bataille’s Story of the Eye: The Monstrous as Sacred Text

Julie Miess
The Monstrous and Gender: Attack of the Female Monster-Hero

17:30
Sessions End

Wednesday 11th May 2005
09:00
Session 7a: Monsters of Outer Space
Chair: Christopher Auld

J. Randall Groves
Monsters, the Post-Human, and History

Susan Wolfe
Monster as Protagonist: The Boundaries of the Human

Session 7b: Past Monsters Still Reaching Out
Chair: Nicola Goc

Esther Lezra
Generating Monsters: Rethinking Past, Present, and Future

Rafal Kochanowicz
Monsters as Emissaries of Tradition’s Secrets

Nane Cantatore
Hermeneutics of the Monster

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 8a: Visions of the Monstrous
Chair: Esther Lezra

Phil Fitzsimmons
Below the Metaphor of Intent: One Author-Illustrator’s View of the Monstrous, and What He Didn’t See

Richard Tilbury
The Renaissance Bearded Woman: Marvel or Monster?

Aurelija Drevel-Dagilyte
Bestiaries in the Computer Games: Case Study Of Diablo II (Lord of Destruction)

Session 8b: Uncanny Monsters
Chair: J. Randall Groves

Fiona Peters
Monsters and Others: Mediating the Contemporary Uncanny Through Fictions

Gerardo Rodriguez Salas and Margarita Carretero Gonzalez
When Charisma Breeds a Monster: Dangerous Liaisons in Carmel Bird’s Novels

Christopher Auld
Response to the Uncanny

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9a: Created Monsters
Chair: Dianne Bunch

Eleanor Salotto
Frankenstein and Dis-Membered Identity: Mary Shelley And the Monstrous

Nina Ohligschläger
Gods and Monsters

Session 9b: Monstrous Music and Literature
Chair: Wendy Bilboe

Ben Barootes
Nobody’s Meat: Freedom Through Monstrosity in Contemporary British Fiction

Niall Scott
God Hates Us All: Kant, Radical Evil, and the Monstrous Human in Heavy Metal

Peter Remington
Monster Mash: Pioneers of the Gothic Element in Rock and Roll

15:30
Tea

16:00
Session 10: Of Monsters and Nations
Chair: Gerardo Rodriguez Salas

Neda Atanasoki
Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: U.S. Humanitarianism in the Former Yugoslavia

Emily Cheng
Monster in Paradise : Family and Nation in Lilo and Stitch

17:00
Development Meeting

17.30
Conference Close

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