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 (1.4)

Wednesday 3rd September 2008
from 12.30
Registration

13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Abigail Cannons and Stephen Hessel

14.00
Session 1: Fear, Horror and Terror at the Movies 1
Chair: Stephen Hessel

Carnographic Culture: America and the Rise of the Torture Porn Film
Beth A. Kattelman

Getting Medieval: Re-presentations of Embodied Fear in the Film Se7en
Shona Hill

23 Days of Cannibalistic Joy: How Jeepers Creepers Sets Itself Apart from the Conventional Slasher Film
Dan Carr

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 2: Religious Dimensions of Fear, Horror and Terror
Chair: Rob Fisher

Fear, Horror and Terror: Contextual Usage in the Qur'an
Muhammad Imtiaz Zafar

Colonial Fear and Ideology of Buddhist Incantation and Poetry: Heterogeneous Times of Japan and Korea, 1910-35
Inhye Han

Relationship between Death Anxiety, Fear, and Religiosity among Security Personnel in Pakistan
Rabia Hussain Kanwal

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Thursday 4th September
09.15
Session 3: The Political Nexus 1
Chair:: Ipek Atik

The Politics of Terror
Ali Riza Taskale

Tocqueville’s Virus: The Globalisation of Fear
Mark Featherstone

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: FHT and the Philosophers’ Stone
Chair: Ali Rtza Taskale

Re-presenting Representations
Ipek Atik

Dreadful yet irresistible “Luella Miller”: Horror in the Absence of Self
Chiho Nakagawa

On Chigurh’s Coin and Benjamin’s Angel: Fear, Horror, and Terror through the Fate of History
Stephen Hessel

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: The Political Nexus 2
Chair: Simone do Vale

The Dreadful Space: Horror and the Politics of Fear
Mikko Canini

The Politics of Fear: New Zealand’s Asian Inv-Asian Rhetoric, Fear and Social Cohesion Policies
Shilinka Smith

Fear, Horror, Terror: Violent Movies for Violent Times
Thomas Riegler

15.30
Tea

16.00
Round Up Session
Convenor: Stephen Hessel

16.30
Sessions End

Friday 5th September
09.30
Session 6: FHT in Public Faces and Public Spaces
Chair: Dan Carr

Societies Under Siege: Media, Government, Politics and Citizens’ Freedoms in an Age of Terrorism
Banu Baybars-Hawks

Trash Mob: Zombie Walks and the Positivity of Monsters in Contemporary Popular Culture
Simone do Vale

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 7: In the Words of FHT 1
Chair: Allan McConnell

The Gothic topography in Scandinavian Horror Fiction
Yvonne Leffler

Legends and Ghost Stories in Naples between Two Centuries: Matilde Serao, Roberto Bracco and Benedetto Croce
Armando Rotondi

Re-reading Fear in Fairy Tales: Little Brave Riding Hood
Cynthia Jones

12.30
Lunch

P.M
No formal sessions.
Time of sight-seeing, shopping, touring

Saturday 6th September
09.30
Session 8: Panel Discussion - Weaving the Threads of FHT

Shona Hill
Rabia Kanwal
Mark Featherstone
Ipek Atik
Thomas Reigler
Allan McConnell
Yvonne Leffler

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 9: Fear, Horror and Terror at the Movies 2
Chair: Maureen Moynihan

Portrayal of women in Popular Pakistani Cinema: Atypical perspective
Rabia Hussain Kanwal

Will You Still Love Me in the Morning?’: Gender Representation and Monstrosity in Alexander Aja’s High Tension
Joshua Cohen

Transgressing Boundaries: Genies in Turkish Horror Films
Y.Gurhan Topcu

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 10: In the Words of FHT 2
Chair: Inhye Han

Confronting Horror in the Abject Borderline State in Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The City of Dreadful Night.’
Lizzy Welby

Torturous Laughter: Expression and Repression of Horror in Rudyard Kipling’s “The Mark of the Beast”
Maureen Moynihan

15.00
Tea

15.30
Development Meeting

16.00
Conference Close