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 (v.1.6c)

Monday 10th September 2007
from 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Phil Fitzsimmons

14.15
Session 1: Youngest Fears
Chair: Rob Fisher

Phill Fitzsimmons
Putting the 'I' Back Into Being: Sendak's Exploration of Childhood Fear And Terror

Rita Dromundo Amores
It Scares Me, But I Like It: Considering Why Children Enjoy Terror Through Ancient Mexican Legends and Current Children's Literature

Özlem Görümlü
Domains of Fear: A Study of The Arabian Nights

15:45
Tea

16:15
Session 2: Fear Goes to the Movies
Chair: Mats Fridlund

Laura Hubner
Pan's Labyrinth, Fear and the Fairy Tale

Steven Allen
Bringing the Dead to Life: Animation and the Horrific

Eric Yu
A Traditional Vengeful Ghost or the Machine in the Ghost? Narrative Dynamics and Horror Effects in the Ring Cycle

17:45
Wine Reception

18.45
Dinner

Tuesday 11th September 2007
09:00
Session 3: Fear and Folks
Chair: Naela Danish

Henriette Dahan Kalev
Fear of Arabness in Zionism: A Post-Zionist Perspective

Esin Kumlu
The Enchanting Beauty: The Power of Difference, the Other, and the Foreigner

Belinda Morrissey and Kristen Davis
Fear and Horror in a Small Town: The Legacy of the Disappearance of Marilyn Wallman

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Literary Fears
Chair: Antonio Fusco

Stephen Hessel
Horrifying Quixote

Laurence Scott
Feeling Bad: Horror and the Repentant Criminal in the Urban Mysteries of Sue and Reynolds

James Aevermann
Destruction of the Hero: An Examination of the Hero's Purpose in Lovecraft's Works

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Concurrent Session 5a: Dramatic Fear and the Gothic Sublime
Chair: Steven Allen

David Carter
And the Moral of the Story IsY. Horror Cinema as Modern Fairy Tale

Madeleine Harwood
"Witches! Live Witches! The House is Full of Witches!" The Concept Of Fear in Early Modern Witchcraft Drama

Maria Beville
Terror and the Gothic Sublime: Presenting the Unrepresentable

Concurrent Session 5b: Fear Organized, Laid Out, Transmuted
Chair: Stephen Hessel

Michele Huppert
Terrified and Terrifying: An Examination of the Defensive Organization of Fundamentalism

Stephanie Baker
Hope or Horror: Football as Metaphor of Contemporary France

Julie Fletcher
Transmuting Fear, Horror and Terror: Post-Torture Testimonies in the Tibetan Diaspora

15:30
Tea

16:00
Session 6: Horrific Morals and Philosophies
Chair: David Carter

Nathaniel Sharadin
The Moral Significance of Fear and Horror in Agent-at-Fault Dilemmas

Raffaella Santi
Hobbesian Fear(s): A Philosophical Exploration

Apple Igrek
An Immediate Recoiling Approach: Bataille and Kearney on the Transmutations of Dread

17:30
Sessions End

Wednesday 12th September 2007
09:00
Session 7: Fear, Horror, and Terrorism
Chair: Michele Huppert

Mikkel Thorup
The Horror of the "Enemy of Humanity": On Pirates, Terrorists, and States

Mats Fridlund
Engineering Terror: The Role of Engineers and Engineering in the Development of Modern Terrorism

Craig Ferguson McGregor
Rending the Terror-Horror Nexus: The Manifest Lie and its Role in Facilitating Illegitimate Acts of Political Violence

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: Fictional Fear and Postmemory
Chair: Raffaela Santi

Naela Danish
Hawthorne's Short Fiction: Compassion or astigation for Those Fated to Fear and Horror

Siao-Jing Sun
Postmemory in Speigelman's Maus

Susan Sencindiver
Sexing the Doppelgänger: A Recourse to Poe's Ligeia

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: FHT and the Seventh Seal
Chair: Laura Hubner

Rosella Tomassoni
The Procession of the Flagellants in the Seventh Seal

Stefania Mancone and Antonio Fusco
A Scene of realistic Horror in the Seventh Seal

Pierluigi Diotaiuti
The Wickedness and Fear in a Monk's Sermon in the Seventh Seal

15:30
Tea

16:00
Development Meeting

16:30
Conference Close