[Commlist] CFP: Learning to Scream: A horror studies screen pedagogy symposium

*Learning to Scream: ​A Horror Studies Screen Pedagogy Symposium*
*Online / Friday 6 January 2023*

*Organised by the BAFTSS Horror Studies SIG Convenors: Dr Kate Egan 
(Northumbria University), Dr Shellie McMurdo (University of 
Hertfordshire), ​Dr Laura Mee (University of Hertfordshire)*

​Since its inception in 2020, the BAFTSS Horror Studies SIG has 
organised horror studies events, promoted horror research across screen 
subjects, provided new spaces for horror research with an affiliated 
book series, and developed an ever-growing network of screen horror 
researchers at all levels, both in the UK and internationally. As part 
of our SIG aims, we also promised to facilitate discussions about horror 
studies pedagogy at higher education level.

Horror has long been a popular subject for both undergraduate and 
postgraduate study, with specialist modules running at many institutions 
and horror being a growing area of interest for doctoral research. The 
established significance of horror studies renders the area ideal as an 
example for teaching screen theory, history and practice. Horror’s broad 
narrative and thematic range lends itself to cultural studies and 
historical/contextual analysis, while its cogent genre status and 
textual experimentation means horror is perfect for teaching film form 
and screen practice. The enduring popularity of the genre also provides 
a useful model for understanding screen industries and audiences, and 
their shifting relations. The many creative, exciting, provocative and 
significant examples of horror films, television programmes, web series, 
video games and other screen media provide a wide range of engaging case 
studies for teaching, learning and research.

This symposium will bring together scholars at any level who are 
involved with screen horror teaching, to explore a broad range of 
questions around learning with and from horror in the contemporary HE 
landscape. Topics can be related to any aspect of screen teaching and 
learning and the horror genre. Suggestions include, but are not at all 
limited to:

  * Teaching horror in a period of horrors (pandemics, politics,
    environmental collapse and the “culture wars”)
  * Addressing inclusion and representation in horror pedagogy
  * Horror research informed teaching
  * Practice-based screen horror teaching
  * Case study texts, their use and usefulness
  * Rethinking the horror canon
  * Engaging students with horror theory
  * Teaching violence, gore, and sensitive subjects
  * Supervising the horror PhD
  * New methods and approaches to teaching, learning and assessment
  * Designing horror modules and courses
  * The horrors of teaching in the contemporary university
  * Online learning, engagement and VLE use


This event is geared towards collaboration and discussion, with flexible 
presentation options, and the organisers are mindful of constraints on 
colleagues’ time. As such, we invite proposals for either:

  * Panel discussions or workshops (30 or 60 minutes, please specify)
  * Individual lightning talks (5 minutes max) addressing specific case
    studies or posing questions/issues for consideration, or pre-formed
    panels of 3-4 related lightning talks (30 minutes)
  * Individual papers (15 minutes) or pre-formed panels of 3 papers (1 
hour)


PowerPoint and other presentation materials are not essential, but 
speakers are welcome to use them or any other visual aid (e.g. 
posters/images/screensharing web pages) wherever appropriate.

We intend to submit a special issue proposal for Open Screens following 
the symposium.

Please send a proposal (c.250 words, or shorter for lightning talks) 
including details of format and speakers (plus a short blurb outlining 
the theme/purpose of any pre-formed panels or workshops), along with a 
brief biography of all speakers, to *(sig.horror /at/ gmail.com)* 
<mailto:(sig.horror /at/ gmail.com)> by 30 September 2022.


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