The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Studies Past and Present at UEA
An International Symposium 26-27th June 2015
Venue: The Forum, Norwich
Conference Venue: Curve auditorium, the Forum.
Tea/Coffee breaks: Curve lobby, the Forum
Day One: Friday 26 June?
09.00-09.30: Registration and Welcome (Reception area outside Fusion)
09.30-11.00: Panel 1:
1. Mark Jancovich (UEA) ' "Antique Chiller": Quality, Pretention and History in the Critical Reception of The Innocents and The Haunting.'
2. Helena Bacon (UEA) ' "Ok, I'll die, but don't shoot me again:' The Weird West in Patrick Brautigan's The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western.'
3. Danielle Hancock, 'And Here is your Host...: Evolutions of Gothic Narration in the Old Time Radio Horror'
11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee
11.30-12.45: Plenary 1: Helen Wheatley (Warwick): 'The Ghosts of Gothic Television'
13.00-14.00: Buffet Lunch (Forum Atrium)
14.00-15.30: Panel 2:
1. Peter Kitson (UEA) 'Gothic and Orientalism'
2. Vic Sage/Jake Huntley (UEA) 'Norwich Gothic: William Taylor, John Polidori and the Aikens.'
3. To be confirmed.
15.30-16.00: Tea/Coffee
16.00-17.15: Plenary 2: David Punter (Bristol): 'Season of the Witch.'
17.30: Wine Reception.
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Day Two: Saturday 26 June
09.00-09.30: Tea/coffee?
09.30-11.00: Panel 3
1. Amanda Dillion (UEA), ' "You know - experiments, the way they do": The Meta-Gothic in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and The Cabin in the Woods.'
2. Linda McCarthy (UEA), 'Rosemary's Baby: The Gothic, Modernity and Religion in the Late 1960s.'
3. Mark Fryers (UEA), ' "Water, Water Everywhere:" The Gothic Sea in British Film and Television.'
11.00 - 11.30: Coffee
11.30-12.45: Plenary 3: Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam), 'Contingency and Coincidence as the Ruins of Time: W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn as Gothic Uncanny.'
13.00-14.00: Lunch (not provided).
14.00-15.00: Panel 4:
1. Tim Snelson (UEA) 'From True Crime to Gothic Realism: Evaluating the Ethics and Aesthetics of Sixties Serial Killer Movies.'
2. Rachel Mizsei Ward (UEA). ' "Munchkin Cthulhu, My Little Cthulhu and Chibithulu: The Transformation of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu from Horrific Body to Cute Body."
15.00-15.30: Special Session: Rebecca Stott (UEA) 'Gothic and Creative Writing'
15.30-16.00: Tea/coffee
16.00-17.15: Plenary 4: Peter Hutchings (Northumbria), 'Whatever happened to the British horror film?
17.15: Break Up
Professor Mark Jancovich
Associate Dean for Research, HUM
Film, Television and Media Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
Tel: 01603 592787
blog: http://fantasticfilmtv.com<http://fantasticfilmtv.com/>
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