Taking place at City Campus East CCE-1: Number 5 on this map https://tinyurl.com/5n99d2sn
Thursday 29 May
09.00 – 10.00 | COFFEE / REGISTRATION
| 10.00 – 11.15 | WELCOME AND KEYNOTE 1 [CCE1-401] (Chair: Johnny Walker) |
| Cüneyt Çakırlar (Nottingham Trent University), “Curating Folk Horror: In and Out of the Canon” |
| 11.30 – 13.00 | SESSION A |
| Panel A1 [CCE1-409] (Chair: Russ Hunter) |
| Kellie Everton (University of Derby),“From Monstrous to Magnificent: Theatrical Makeup in 1920s Gothic Theatre with a Focus on Hamilton Deane in Derby” Rebecca Wynne-Walsh (Edge Hill University),“Stolen Bones and Bleeding Land: Reclaiming Basque-ness Through the Gothic” |
| Panel A2 [CCE1-410] (Chair: Kate Egan) |
| Briony Kidd (Deakin University),“Time-Blindness as a Feminist Superpower: The Psychobiddy Horror Film Reconsidered” Charlotte Elliot (Flinders University),“The Unhinged Woman Trope and Merciless Murderess in Chelsea G. Summers’ A Certain Hunger (2020)” Donna McRae (Deakin University),“Something in the Water: The Rise of Adelaide Gothic in Australian Horror Films” |
| Panel A3 [CCE1-418] (Chair: Damien Pollard) |
| Thomas Joseph Watson (Teesside University),“Deathbeds and Shadow Killers: Horror, Transgression and Contemporary Noise Music” David Melbye (University of Huddersfield), “Horror Jazz: Popular Music, Otherness, and Sympathetic Trauma in 1960s Cinema” Larissa Barbosa Curi (Tallinn University), “Tell, Don’t Show: Understanding Form, Function and Audience Affect of Verbal Account Scenes in Horror Films and Thrillers” |
| 14.00 – 15.30 | SESSION B |
| Panel B1 [CCE1-409] (Chair: Tom Watson) |
| Jennifer Cooke (Newcastle University), “‘Normality is Threatened by the Monster’: Posthuman Entanglements with Monsters in Horror Gaming” Kaytlin Blackmore (Northumbria University), “Transgressing the Boundaries of Play: An Analysis of Virtual Reality Horror” Meghan Hewitt (University College London), “Digital Doppelgangers: Unravelling the Uncanny in Indie Analog Gaming’s No I’m Not A Human and That’s Not My Neighbour” |
| Panel B2 [CCE1-410] (Chair: Laura Mee) |
| GN Martin (Regent’s University London), “(How) Can We Study Horror Better?” Barnabás Bácskai-Nagy (Eötvös Loránd University), “A Computational Analysis of Stylistic Patterns of British and Italian Horror Films during the Postmodern Shift” Pete Falconer (University of Bristol), “Evaluating Jump Scares” |
| Panel B3 [CCE1-418] (Chair: Stacey Abbott) |
| Victoria Santamaría Ibor (University of Zaragoza), “The Horror of Work: The Workplace as Site of Abjection in Post-2008 Horror Cinema” Maz Jardon (University of Amsterdam), “Coal Exhaust, Extraction, and Spatialized Abjection in Post-Industrial Horror Media” Ami Nisa (Swansea University), “Rivers of Blood: Racial Capitalism and the Emergence of the British Asian Vampire” |
| 16.00 – 17.30 | SESSION C |
| Panel C1 [CCE1-409] (Chair: Bruna Foletto Lucas) |
| Laura Mee (University of Hertfordshire), “Dare to Go Back: Selling the Horror Legacy Sequel” Reece Goodall (University of Warwick), “Serial Scares: The State of Horror Franchise Studies” Kieran Judge (Aberystwyth University), “The Neon-Slasher: Explorations In A Potential New Subgenre” |
| Panel C2 [CCE1-410] (Chair: Austin Fisher) |
| Sam Mayne (University of Western Australia), “Peripheral Visions: Towards an Australian Weird” Kev Bickerdike (Sheffield Hallam University), “Place Attachment Theory and Horror Narratives” Sophie Dungan (University of Warwick), “Bulldozing the Environment: Jerry London’s Killdozer!” |
| Panel C3 [CCE1-418] (Chair: Damien Pollard) |
| David Martínez (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “Models of Perception: The Gypsy Curse in Horror” Eli Dolliver (University of Cambridge), “Beyond Folk Horror: Folklore Studies and Horror Cinema” |
6pm: CONFERENCE DINNER at The Magic Hat (fully booked) https://www.themagichatcafe.co.uk/
Friday 30 May
| 09.30 – 10.30 | KEYNOTE 2 [CCE1-401] (Chair: Stacey Abbott) |
| Maisha Wester (University of Sheffield), “Coded Black: Using Gaming to fight the RealHorror of Racial Necropolitics” |
| 10.45 – 12.15 | SESSION D |
| Panel D1 [CCE1-409] (Chair: Russ Hunter) |
| Giulio Olesen (Bournemouth University), “Beyond Online: Transnational Practices and the International Distribution of Contemporary Italian Horror” Xiaoxiang Ma (Queen’s University), “The Impact of the 1988 Hong Kong Film Classification Ordinance on the Genre Hybridity and Market Transformation of Hong Kong Horror Cinema” Marybec Griffin (Rutgers University), “Bloody Numbers: Quantitative Methods for Analyzing Distribution, Criticism and Content in Film” |
| Panel D2 [CCE1-410] (Chair: Simon Brown) |
| Pete Turner (Oxford Brookes University), “Horror Across Genres: How Children Remember Sexual Violence in Horror and Beyond” Lynn Huggins-Cooper (Falmouth University), “Harnessing Horror: Towards a Theory of the Phenomenology of Grief as Fear and the Use of Horror Narratives in Cinematic and Narrative Therapy in Bereavement Counselling” Alessandra Pino (University of Westminster), “Food, Fear and Film: How Horror Feeds Our Need to Confront Dark Pasts” |
| Panel D3 [CCE1-418] (Chair: Stacey Abbott) |
| Darren Gray (Independent Scholar), “Beyond Sight, Beyond Fear: Exploring Blindness and Visual Impairment in Modern Horror Cinema” Katherine Lucia Prentice (University of Glasgow), “Cripping the Monstrous Feminine: Reading Disability in Recent Pregnancy Horror” Catherine Pugh (Independent Scholar), “‘Like a Care Bear with Fangs’: The Benevolent Vampire as Disabled Other” |
| 13.15 – 14.15 | KEYNOTE 3 [CCE1-401] (Chair: Kate Egan) |
| Max Gee (Bournemouth University), “Possessed of Agency Not Possessed by the Agency of Others: Engaging in Creative Practice to Give Voice to Non-Human Perspectives Through Horror Scholarship” |
| 14.45 – 16.15 | SESSION E |
| Panel E1 [CCE1-409] (Chair: Simon Brown) |
| Bruna Foletto Lucas (University of Hertfordshire), “From Coffin Joe to the Present: Subversion and Resistance in Brazilian Horror” Julia Płaczkiewicz (University of Warsaw), “Affect, Anger, and Agency: New Perspectives in Contemporary Rape-Revenge Cinema” Stephanie Farnsworth (University of Sunderland), “An Autoethnographic Approach to Running a Cult” |
| Panel E2 [CCE1-410] (Chair: Kate Egan) |
| Abigail Hilton (Northumbria University), “The Ghosts of Queer Girlhood: South Korean Horror and Fractured Temporalities in Whispering Corridors (1998) and Memento Mori (1999)” Chloe Gibson (Northumbria University), “Nosferatu Returns: Or how a love of Tim Burton highlights the cycle of influence in Horror Films” Victoria Mummelthei (Freie Universität Berlin), “Tides of Unknowing: Offshore-Eldritch Horror in Still Wakes the Deep” |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | CLOSING REMARKS & AWARDS PRESENTATION |
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