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

*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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