Download Style Sheet 1
(pdf)

Download Style Sheet 2
(pdf)

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.5.6b)

Monday 17th September 2007
from 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher

14:15
Session 1: Monstrous Writing
Chair: Sorcha Ni Fhlainn

Andrew O’Day
Predators and Prey: Newspaper Editors, Readers, and the Monstrous

Kristen Davis
Negligent Monsters: American School Shootings and the Displacement of Monstrosity

Belinda Morrissey
Killing Just For Fun: Amoral ‘Monsters’

15:45
Tea

16:15
Session 2: H.G.Wells and Friends
Chair: Roger Davis

Antonio Sanna
Transforming Monsters Into Humans: The Island Of Dr. Moreau

Kirk Combe
Spielberg’s Tale of Two Americas: Post-modern Monsters in War of the Worlds

Ewan Kirkland
Shadow of the Colossus: The Monster in the Landscape

17:45
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Tuesday 18th September 2007
09:00
Session 3: Monsters Performed
Chair: Hannah Priest

Jose Gabriel Ferreras
Jumping, Yelling, Screaming: The Spooky Art of John Carpenter

Holly Baumgartner
Divas Undone: The Errant Heroine as Operatic Monster

Anna Kowalcze
“What claimed our love and compassion was misshapen humanity in all its forms.” Sick Caliban’s Story

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Monstrous Legalities
Chair: Tom Murphy

Jessica Kate Webb
Herculine Barbin: Human Error, Criminality, and the Case of the Monstrous Hermaphrodite

Andrew Sharpe
Structured Like A Monster: Understanding Human Difference Through a Legal Category

Saundra Liggins
Richard Wright’s Bigger Thomas: Black Man as Racial/Sexual Monster

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Devilish Movies
Chair: Liesbet Depauw

Colette Balmain
Monstrous and Murderous Maternity in Contemporary Japanese Horror: Kurosawa’s Sweet Home (Suito Homu, Japan: 1989)

Lucy Fife
Human Monstrosity: Rape, Ambiguity, and Performance in Rosemary’s Baby

Duane Kight
I Live in the Weak and the Wounded: The Monster of Anderson’s Session 9

15:30
Tea

16:00
Session 6: Get Out the Popcorn! Wartime and Monstrous Movie!
Chair: Alexandro Silva

Phil Fitzsimmons
Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Signed: The Chiastic Monster in 300

Ann Marie Cook
From the Enchanted Forest to the Desert: The Brothers Grimm as Contemporary Wartime Allegory

Amaya Muruzabal
Monster as a Victim of War: The Case of Homer in The Best Years of Our Lives

17:30
Sessions End

Wednesday 19th September
09:00
Session 7: Nineteenth Century Monstrosity
Chair: Josephine Mariea

Anne-Lise Perotto
Writing and Re-writing the Story: Self-Preservation and Monstrosity in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Alexandro Silva
Architecture of Pre-Columbian Middle American Civilizations and its Challenge to the ‘Metaphorical Monsters’ of 19th Century European ‘Anthropological Consciousness’

Katherine Angell
J. Merrick (The Elephant Man) and the Concept of Monstrosity in 19th Century Medical Thought

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: Comics and the Uncanny
Chair: Kirsten Miller

Marie Manuelle Costa Silva
Reinterpretation of Myths in Comics

David Kingsley
It came from Four-Colour Fiction: The Effects of Comic Books on the Fiction of Stephen King

Natalya Androsova
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: What’s the Most Uncanny of them All?

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Concurrent Session 9a: Slashers, Unite!
Chair: Katherine Angell

Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
Sweet, Bloody Vengeance: Class, Social Stigma, and Servitude in the Slasher Genre

Kirsten Miller
Masks and Machine Ethos: Traces of Techno-Horror in the Slasher Film

Sarah Arnold
Monstrosity of the Beautiful and the Dark Side of Consumption and Consumerism in the Melodrama/Horror Film Dumplings

Session 9b: Skins, Wolves and Vampires
Chair: Duane Kight

Katharine Polak
Between Skins—The Form and Function of Composite Monsters in Ancient Greece

Hannah Priest
The Witch and the Werewolf: Rebirth and Subjectivity in Medieval Verse

Deborah Christie
Sunlight and Shadow: Murnau’s Appropriation of the Vampiric Figure in Nosferatu and Expressionist Cinema in the Weimar Republic

15:30
Tea

16:00
Concurrent Session 10a: Monsters Novelistic and Told
Chair: Kirk Combe

Josephine Mariea
The Space of Monstrosity in Gardner’s Grendel: A Novel

Inderjit Grewal
The Monstrous and Maternal in Toni Morrison's Beloved

Session 10b: Depictions of Demons and Devils
Chair: Anna Kowalcze

Francesca Leoni
The Human in the Monster: Changes in Demonic Imageries in 14th-16th century Persian Painting

Saiyad Ahmad
Islamic Depictions of Enduring Evil: The Devil, Lesser Demons and the Antichirist

17:00
Sessions End

Thursday 20th September 2007
09:30
Session 11: : Monsters, MMORPG’s and the Real
Chair: Ewan Kirkland

Marlin Bates
Monstrosities Made Real: The Use of the Real to Support the ur-Real in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs).

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 12: Witches, Cyborgs and Snowman: Oh, My!
Chair: Ann Marie Cook

Magdalena Gajewska
Witches: The Half-Demons in Contemporary Kaschuba Culture

Tom Murphy
The Voracious Monster: Consumption, Jouissance & Reading The Textual Body

Roger Davis
A White Illusion of a Man: Snowman, Survival, and Speculation in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 13: Scary, Disfigured and Reanimated
Chair: Jose Gabriel Ferreras

Liesbet Depauw
The Monsters That Didn’t Scare: The Atypical reception of the 1930s Horror Film Cycle in Belgium

Cecilia Feilla
Literary Monsters: Genius, Disfigurement, and Writing in Diderot’s On Women and Shelly’s Frankenstein

Amy Dudley
It’s Alive! (Again): The Rise of Reanimation in Science and Modern Medicine

15.30
Tea

16.00
Development Meeting

16.30
Conference Close

© Wickedness.Net 2007