We are delighted to release our conference programme for the forthcoming 2019 Gothic Feminism conference: Technology, Women and Gothic-Horror On-Screen, with our keynote by Dr Lisa Purse.
Gothic Feminism presents:
Technology, Women, and Gothic-Horror On-Screen
2 – 3 May 2019
University of Kent
Keynote speaker: Dr Lisa Purse (University of Reading)
Thursday 2nd May
09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 9:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:45 – 11:00 Keynote Speech – Dr Lisa Purse (University of Reading)
11:00 – 11:30 Tea & coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Papers 1: Technology of the Gothic and Horror
‘Controlling the Gaze?: Potentials, Problems and Responsibilities of Audio-Visual Research in a Feminist Context’ – Gabriela Zogall (University of Birmingham)
‘“Come on. It’ll be just like in the movies. We’ll pretend to be someone else”: Female Identity Behind the Screen in David Lynch’s L.A. Trilogy’ – Olivia Steen (University of Hertfordshire)
‘Gothic Melodrama and Technicolor Design: Gender, Class and the Architecture of a House’ – Liz Watkins (University of Leeds)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Papers 2: Automata
‘Of Disobedient Machines and Damsels in Distress: Technology and Gothic Feminism in Westworld’ – Elizabeth Mullen (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
‘“Like a Real Girl”: Gaze, Gender, and Gothically Haunted Humanoid Inventions, Especially in the Blade Runner films and Ex Machina’ – Gisèle M. Baxter (University of British Columbia)
‘Ex Machina’s Gothic: Science-fiction, Synthespians and Special Effects’ – Frances A. Kamm (University of Kent)
15:50 – 16:00 Tea & coffee break
16:00 – 18:00 Papers 3: Videographic work
‘Bio-Toxic Relationships and the Southern Gothic – Being a Man, Being a Woman and Being a Monster in Resident Evil: Biohazard’ – Richard Sheppard (University of Wales)
Pandemic – John Bradburn
18:00 – 19:00 Cake and wine reception
Friday 3rd May
09:30 – 11:00 Papers 4: Technology in the Gothic and Horror
‘Female Labour and Algorithmic Horror in Cam’ – Matt Denny (University of Warwick)
‘Intermediality and Gender in the First Teen Slasher Black Christmas’ – Morten Feldtfos Thomsen (Karlstad University)
‘“Do you think I am an automaton?”: Captain Janeway and the Gothic Holodeck’ – Lies Lanckman (University of Kent)
11:00 – 11:30 Tea & coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Papers 5: Identity
‘The Eyes Have It: Gendered Tension Between Sight, Technology and Spanish National Identity in Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s REC (2007) and Alejandro Amenábar’s Tesis (1996)’ – Rebecca Wynne-Walsh (Trinity College Dublin)
‘The Technology of Mommy: Ugly Feelings and the Uncanny in The Babadook, Goodnight Mommy, and Hereditary – Johanna M. Wagner (Østfold University College)
‘“Want”: Vagina Dentata, Automation and Feminist Desire in Teeth’s Reviews’ – Katherine Farrimond (University of Sussex)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Papers 6: Gothic Ghosts
‘“Take me back to the old house”. Memory, Trauma and Scepticism: The Awakening and the Female Ghost Hunter’ – Katerina Flint-Nicol (University of Kent)
‘I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts: Paranormal Investigations and their Implications for the Feminine Victorian Gothic– Linda Sheppard (University of East Anglia)
‘Consumption Horror: Re-presentation and the Abstract Disease’ – Lexi Turner (Independent Scholar)
16:00 – 16:30 Final remarks and closing of conference
(Note: this may be subject to minor alterations. For further updates please see: https://gothicfeminism.com/conference-programme-2019/)
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