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[ecrea] Transnational Monstrosity in Popular Culture: Registration & Programme

Fri May 12 23:09:13 GMT 2017





*Transnational Monstrosity in Popular Culture: A One-Day Conference*

*York St John University, Saturday 3^rd June 2017*

Invited speakers <http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/transnationalmonsters/invited-speakers/>:

Dr Colette Balmain (Kingston University)

Dr Donna McCormack (University of Surrey)

Professor Andrew Smith (University of Sheffield)

Dr Johnny Walker (Northumbria University)

Registration is now open: full delegate rate is £30, £15 for PG students

To book your place, please visit our website: http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/transnationalmonsters/registration/

Our full provisional programme is also available on our website: http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/transnationalmonsters/programme/

This one-day conference will explore the figure of the monster in transnational popular culture, across cinema, television, games, comics and literature to consider how monstrosity is constructed, represented and disseminated in global popular culture. Since the popularisation of monster narratives in the nineteenth century, the monstrous figure has been a consistent border crosser, from Count Dracula’s journey on the Demeter from Romania to Whitby, to the rampaging monsters of Godzilla movies across multiple global cities. In folklore, such narratives have long been subject to specific local and national cultures, such as the shape-shifting Aswang of Filipino folklore or the Norwegian forest Huldra, yet global mediacapes now circulate mediatised representations of such myths across borders, contributing to a transnational genre that spans multiple media. Aihwa Ong has referred to ‘the /trans/versal, the /trans/actional, the /trans/lational, and the /trans/gressive’ in transnational ‘human practices and cultural logics’, and each of these categories can encompass the scope of /trans/formations imagined within cross-border constructions of monstrosity. The conference will shed new light on the ways in which monsters and monstrosity have been shaped by and in transnational popular culture.

Follow us on Twitter for more updates: @TNMonstrosity <https://twitter.com/TNMonstrosity>


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