2nd Global Conference
Monday 16th May – Wednesday 18th May 2011
Warsaw, Poland
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
Monday 16th May 2011
from 12.30
Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
14.00
Session 1: Love Will Keep Us Together…NOT!
Chair: Hannah Priest
“No More America?” Gothic Terminations in Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
Geoff Hamilton
Love will Tear Us Apart … Again: The Endurance of the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth in Goth Subculture
Kathryn Franklin
Postmodern and Gothic Hybridity in Nick Cave’s “And the Ass Saw the Angel”
Joanna Babicka
15:30
Tea
16:00
Session 2: King and Company
Chair: Victoria Amador
Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism, and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King
Kevin Corstorphine
The Supernatural and the Functions of the Gothic in D. du Maurier’s The Birds and Don’t Look Now
Nil Korkut-Nayki
Abject Representatons of Female Desire in Carter’s Tiger Bride and Donoghue’s Tale of the Rose
Selen Aktari
17.30
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception
Tuesday 17th May 2011
09:00
Session 3: Gothic Locality
Chair: Andrey Gorkovoy
Gothic Spaces in Fantasy Fiction: The Creation of Place in Nix’s Sabriel
Nicola Alter
The Postcolonial Indian Gothic in Roy’s An Atlas of Impossible Longing
Lydia Saleh Rofail
Italian Gothic Literature: The Case of Fogazzaro’s Malombra
Maria Parrino
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Session 4: Gothic Appropriation of the Past
Chair: Serena Trowbridge
I Am the Monster’s Mother: Aesthetic Strategies of Monstrous Creation in Contemporary Gothic Narrative
Anya Heise-von der Lippe
Reality, or the Illusion of the Secret: Gothic Fictions of Masculinity
Katarzyna Więckowska
Spatialized Gothic Masculinities in Fin-de-Siécle Suburbia
Tanya Pikula
12:30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5: Gothic Mindscapes
Chair: Dale Townshend
Forensic Psychology and the New Gothic
Neil McCaw
Gothic Ennui: The Cultural Relevance of Three Novels
Michel Pierre Laffitte
Clive Barker, Imaginer: The Gothic Tradition, Its Meaning, and Influence On His Art Forms
Russell Cherrington
15:30
Tea
16.00
Session 6: Gothic Aesthetic
Chair: Geoff Hamilton
Glitter Gothic: Uses of the Past in Contemporary YA Urban Fantasy
Hannah Priest
Fashioning Bodies, Styles, and onvention: The Strangeness of Others
Louise Katz
The Gothic in Contemporary Fashion
Victoria Amador
17:30
Sessions End
Wednesday 18th May 2011
09:00
Session 7: Gothic, Haunted Spaces
Chair: Markku Koski
Horrified Residing: Ghost Houses in Finnish Postmodern Horror
Tomi Sirviö
Paris Opera as an Edifice and a Literary Haunted House
Dorota Babilas
Postmodern Vision of Gothic London: Ackroyd’s Fiction Reflecting Hogarth’s Images
Alexandra Shubina
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Session 8: Gothic Romance and History
Chair: Tanya Pikula
History and Romance: Reading Netley Abbey, 1764-1848
Dale Townshend
The Pestilential Breath of Fiction: Bentham, Blackstone, and the Romance of Law
Sue Chaplin
Where Does Romance Take Over From History? The Work of Clara Reeve and Sophia Lee
Angela Wright
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 9: Lights! Camera! Action!
Chair: Kevin Corstorphine
Psycho and the Modern Gothic
Markku Koski
Gothic Romance Revisited: Villians on Screen and a Twist in Convention
Dagmara Zając
The Physician and his Lordship. John William Polidori’s The Vampyre
Michel Vanon Alliata
15:30
Tea
16:00
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks
17:00
Conference Ends
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