[ecrea] UEA Gothic Event: Programme

*The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Studies Past and Present at UEA*

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*An International Symposium 26-27**^th ** June 2015*

*Venue: The Forum, Norwich*

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*Conference Venue:* Curve auditorium, the Forum.

*Tea/Coffee breaks*: Curve lobby, the Forum

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*Day One: Friday 26 June
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*09.00-09.30:* /Registration and Welcome/ (Reception area outside Fusion)

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*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’

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*11.00-11.30:* Tea/Coffee

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*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/

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*16.00-17.15:* /Plenary 2/: *David Punter* (Bristol): ‘Season of the Witch.’

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*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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