1st Global Conference (2010)

1st Global Conference

Thursday 6th May – Saturday 8th May 2010
Prague, Czech Republic

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

Thursday 6th May 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

14:00
Session 1: Gothic Sets the Stage
Chair: Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

Monstrous Evidence: Detecting Monsters in Fin de Siecle Fiction
Karen Macfarlane

The Paradox of Horror: The Dark Side of Gothic Aesthetics
Maria Antonia Lima

From Gothicism to Transcendentalism: The Birth of a Nation’s Culture
Jean-Baptiste Dussert

15.30
Coffee/Tea

16.00
Session 2: Lights! Camera! Action!
Chair: Colette Balmain

Representing European Identities in Early Gothic Literature and Classic Hollywood Cinema
Niall O’Donnell

James Whale’s The Old Dark House: Classic Gothic Cinema at the Origin Of the Rocky Horror Show
Armando Rotondi

Food, Blood, Body, and Knowledge in Frankenstein and Dracula
Maria Parrino

17:30
Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Friday 7th May
09:00
Session 3: Got(h) Sex?
Chair: Karen Mahony

Gothic Lolitas Just Wanna Have Fun? An examination of the Goth-Loli Style Tribes in Hong Kong and Tokyo
Anne Peirson Smith

Chick Fang, Power Relations, and Being Human
Yvonne Leffler

Transcended Bodies, Confused Genders: Some Perspectives on the Portrayal of Sexuality in American Horror Film and Fiction
Dorota Wisniewska

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Read Me Another Bedtime Story!
Chair: Maria Antonia Lima

Ken’s Mystery:” Blending Gothic Foundations with Gaelic Folklore
Eoghain Hamilton

The Walking Dude: Randall Flagg in Stephen King’s Post-Apocolyptic Epic, The Strand
Cornelia Lippert

Dopo Notte Atra e Funesta: Handel’s Ariodante: A Forerunner of the Gothic Novel?
Angela Fodale

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Got(h) More Sex?
Chair:  Yvonne Stewart

Un/queering the Gothic: Demi-Haunted (2002)
Shuen Chan

“It’s a Woman – Made of Cake! Post-Feminist Cannibalism And the Ethics of Cross-Species in M. Atwood’s The Edible Woman
Grace Tzu-wei Chen

Title TBC
Lois Drawmer

15:30
Tea

16:00
Session 6: Spectacles of the Gothic
Chair: Jacqueline de Giacomo

Dire Fortunes Told: A Bohemian Gothic Tarot Goes to Work
Karen Mahony

A Platonic Critique of the Vampire
Jonathan H. Nelson

Panic on the Streets of Stockholm: Sub/urban Alienation in the Novels of J.A. Lindquist
Kevin Corstorphine

17:30
Sessions End

Saturday 8th May
09:00
Session 7: Death
Chair: Ross Moore

Phantasms of Death: Goth Songs of the 80s and the Gothic Literary Tradition
Anna Milione

Tell-Tale Deaths and Monstrous Quests: Being Human and Visions of Death in Millennial Gothic Fictions
Jacqueline de Giacomo

Pagan Death: Lovecraftian Horror and the Dream of Decadence
Jesse Norford

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: Would You Like Popcorn With That?
Chair: Maria Parrino

Evil Against Evil: Demonic Sexuality in W. Friedkin’s The Exorcist
Gord Barentsen

Shadows in the Palace: The Female Gothic in Korean Horror Cinema
Colette Balmain

Gothic Cinema: Horror on Screen and the Perils of (over-)Interpretation
Dagmara Zajac

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 11: Gothic Spaces Down Under!
Chair: Eoghain Hamilton

Mind the Gap: Underground and Subway as Gothic Space
Jacob Huntley

Australian Gothic and the Desert as Murderous Protagonist
Ross Moore

15:00
Coffee

15:30
Development Meeting for all delegates

16.30
Conference Close