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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.4.7)

Monday 18th September 2006
from 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Stephen Morris

14.15
Session 1: Monstrous Movies
Chair: Sorcha Ni Fhlainn

Christopher Auld
Quatermass and the Canon: A Critical Re-Appraisal of the 1950’s Hammer Quatermass Films

Ils Huygens
They’re Not Even Sure It Is a Baby Yet: Body Horror In Eraserhead

Anthony Gardner
Monstrous Nationalism: Wolf Creek and The UnAustralian

15.45
Tea

16.15
Session 2: Unearthing the Undead
Chair: Phil Fitzsimmons

Peter Dendle
The Zombie Movie in the ‘Millennial Generation’

Kevin Stewart
Zombie Aesthetic and the Post-Apocalyptic Franchise

Kriscinda Meadows
Zombie Culture: The Audience and the Undead

Kevin Boon
The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Modern Age

18.15
Wine Reception, with Hope Conference delegates

19.00
Dinner

Tuesday 19th September
09.00
Session 3: Children and Monstrosity
Chair: Elizabeth McCarthy

Colette Kavanagh
The Webcam as the ‘Evil Eye’ in Child Internet Exploitation

Christina Rawls
From Victim to Victimizer: Child Abuse and the Perpetuation of Evil

Colette Balmain
The Attack of the Zombie Schoolgirls: Stacy (Naoyuki Tomomatsu, Japan: 2001)

David White
Loving the Alien: A Moral Re-Evaluation of Paedophiles

11.00
Coffee

11.30
Session 4: Women and Monstrosity
Chair: Lois Drawmer

Dara Downey
Seven Legs My True Love Has: Fantasies Of Female Monstrosity in American Horror Fiction

Carmen-Veronica Borbély
Monstrous Genealogies: Reconstru(ct)ing Teratical Females in A.S. Byatt’s Fiction

Maria Luisa Coelho
Gorgeously Repulsive, Exquisitely Fun, Dangerously Beautiful: Dog Women, Monstrous Births, and Contemporary Women’s Art

13.00
Lunch

14.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 5a: Asian Monstrosities
Chair: Peter Dendle

Natsumi Ikoma
Why Do Japanese Ghosts Have No Legs? Sexualized Female Ghosts and Fear of Sexuality

Rupalee Verma
Good Monsters, Bad Monsters: Paranoid Projections Meet Oral Traditions

C.D. Sebastian
Mara: The Depiction of the Monstrous in Buddhist Literature

Session 5b: Monstrosities of War and Genocide
Chair: Ilana Shiloh

Frank Faulkner
Mordant Vision: Monstrous Terrorism or Terroristic Monsters? Examining the Creation of a Millennial War on Terror

Ross Wilson
Strange Hells: The British Soldier and ‘the Monster’ on The Western Front

Rachel Waterstradt
Monstrous Maxim: A Defense of Kant’s Concept of Radical Evil in Understanding Genocide and Atrocity

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 6a: Monstrous Images
Chair: Charlene Burns

Jennifer McComas
Monstrous Modernism, Monstrous Bodies, Christian Iconography and ‘Degenerate Art’

Jim Cross
Torn Posters and Monstrous Images: Damage and Spectacle

Lois Drawmer
Refracted Gazes: ‘Monstrous’ Children and Photography

Session 6b: Monsters and Heroes Strike Back
Chair: Natsumi Ikoma

Bernice Murphy
American Parricide: Monstrous Children in the Work Of S. Jackson and L. Shriver

Sylvia Pamboukian
The Monstrous Hero: Medicine and Monster-Making in Late Victorian Literature

Hulya Tafli
The Alp and the Monster in pre-Islamic Epic (The Book of Dede Korkut) and Beowulf

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 20th September
09.00
Session 7: Fashionable Monstrosity
Chair: Phil Fitzsimmons

Peri Bradley
Monstrous Makeovers: Transforming ‘Monsters’ Into Beauty Queens

Jean-Philippe Imbert
Fashion Monsters, Fashion Slaves: Surrealism, Fashion, and Monsters

Elizabeth McCarthy
Feast Your Eyes! Glut Your Soul on my Accursed Ugliness!’ The Visuality of Gothic/Horror

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Ethics of Monsters
Chair: Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik

Mary Ford
The Patient-As-Monster in Law and Bioethics

Kristen Davis
Un/Monstrous Criminals - The ‘Gay Gang Murders’: ‘not like us’ and ‘just like us’

Claudia Lindner Leporda
To Be, Or Not To Be, A Monster

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9a: Monsters Televised and Online
Chair: C.D. Sebastian

Charlene Burns
Our Gods are Monsters: Representations of the Origins of Religion in Popular Culture

Diane Cook
Moral Relativism in David Milch’s Deadwood

Marlin Bates
ur-Real Monsters: The Rhetorical Creation of Monsters in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)

Session 9b: Monstrous Types and Races
Chair: Sonia Ouaras

Justin Edwards
Mapping a Monstrous Nation: Reading Post-Colonial Monsters

Lewis Gordon
Monsters: A Philosophical Portrait

Jane Gordon
Monstrous Modernity: Frankenstein’s Creature, the Black, and Other Inassimilable Naturalistic Extremes

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 10a: Eschatological Monsters, Noxious Demons and the Antichrist
Chair: Anthony Gardner

Phil Fitzsimmons
The Final Testimonio: The Name, Number and Narrative Of the Eschatological Monster

Saygin Salgirli
The Antichrist of ‘Liber Floridus:’ A Monster in its Political Context

Fariba Raeisi
Div (Demon), the Most Noxious Creature in Ancient Iranian Myths

Session 10b: Marginal Monsters?
Chair: Peter Mario Kreuter

Shona Hill
Questioning the Negative Value of Pain

Sonia Ouaras
Knowledge and the Monster: An Unfair Epistemological Marginalization of the Creature?

Loretta Vandi
The Sublime Monstrosity: Baudelaire on Modernity

20.00
Monsters Banquet (tbc)

Thursday 21st September
09.00
Session 11: Witches, Etc.
Chair: Christopher Auld

Peter Mario Kreuter
The Nymph and the Witch: Female Magical Figures in The Works of Paracelsus

Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik
A Mirror of Monsters. Escapes of Revenge Tragedy

Hester Reeve
Chapter X

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 12: The Classics
Chair: Paul Yoder

Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
The Eternal Changeling: Dracula’s Transformations In the 1970s

Duane Kight
Bill Condon’s Mutable Monsters

Ilana Shiloh
Monsters of Distorted Vision: The Poetics of Flannery O’Connor

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 13a: Reflecting on Monstrosity
Chair: Kevin Stewart

Stephen Morris
Gay Man as Byzantine Monster

Taura Napier
Monstrous Belles and Grotesque Mothers: Contemporary Autobiography in Northern Ireland and the American South

Shelley Smarz
The Politics of Pornographic Pleasure in the Legend of the Overfiend Saga

Session 13b: Monsters on the Edge
Chair: Jean-Philippe Imbert

Silvia Alfaye
Dreadful Burials: Corpses and Skulls Pierced by Nails in the Ancient World

Asa Mittman and Susan Kim
Inconceivable Beasts: The ‘Wonders of the East’ In the Beowulf Manuscript

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 14: Designing Monsters, Building Walls
Chair: John Ejizu

Jamel Shakir
Monster Design: Tools, Strategies, and Structures

Paul Yoder
Marquis de Sade; Building Walls

17.00
Development Meeting and Conference Close

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