[ecrea] CfP: Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media II: Research Workshop for PhDs and Early Career Researchers

*Call for Presentations: Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media II:*

*A Research Workshop for PhDs and Early Career Researchers*

*Friday 4 May 2018, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK*

A collaborative event between the Department of Social Sciences and the 
Department of Arts PhD students and Early Career Researchers working in 
the field(s) of “horror, cult and exploitation” screen media, are 
invited to submit abstracts about their research to deliver at a 
workshop at Northumbria University on Friday 4 May 2018.

The workshop – which follows on from a highly successful event last year 
– will take the format of a mini-symposium, and consist of three 
sessions, each made up of four speakers. Speakers will each deliver a 
5-10 minute talk about their research to their peers and to a panel of 
academic experts from Northumbria’s Film and Television Research Group, 
providing a short introduction to their current project and identifying 
several questions for discussion. After each presentation, there will be 
an opportunity for the academic panel and other workshop participants to 
feedback to each speaker, and to ask follow-up questions. The workshop 
is intended to be a small scale networking opportunity for scholars with 
shared research interests, and to provide a relatively informal 
opportunity for those newer to academia to engage in dialogue with more 
established researchers.

The event will close with a short presentation by James Campbell from 
Intellect Books, who will give advice about academic publishing 
(including converting a PhD thesis into a monograph).

The academic panel will comprise:

 Dr Russ Hunter (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, 
co-editor of /Italian Horror //Cinema)/

 Dr Steve Jones (Head of Media, author of /Torture Porn: Popular Horror 
After Saw/, co-editor of /Zombies and Sexuality/)

 Dr James Leggott (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, 
author of /Contemporary //British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror/)

 Dr Sarah Ralph (Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, 
co-author of /Alien Audiences: //Remembering and Evaluating a Classic 
Movie/)

 Dr Jamie Sexton (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, 
co-author of /Cult Film: An //Introduction/, founding series co-editor 
of /Cultographies/)

 Dr Johnny Walker (Senior Lecturer in Media, author of /Contemporary 
British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society/ and co-editor of the 
/Global Exploitation Cinemas/ book series)

Applicants are reminded that there are only twelve spaces available. 
Lunch and light refreshments will be provided throughout the day.

Please submit a 250-word summary of your project and a 50–100-word bio 
to the organiser, Dr Johnny Walker ((johnny.walker /at/ northumbria.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(johnny.walker /at/ northumbria.ac.uk)>), by Friday 30 March 2018. 
Applicants will be notified of the outcome the following week.


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